Hand quilting snapshots
As you asked so nicely, I've taken a couple of close up snapshots on my phone. Please excuse the image quality.
First, the front panel.
Secondly, the right front shoulder.
Yeah, my snapshots are horrible. But in a way the flash is quite useful as it shows the "bump" that you get with quilting. You can accentuate that bump with additional padding or trapunto, but it's nice like this too. The padding is a nice cotton wadding and I like to use it with the more textured side outwards for a more haphazard, aged look to the quilting.
There are details that I'm not 100% happy about, but I am just nit-picking really... 'tis a not-for-sale sample that I had to really rush and might even dismantle now. Lord, I'm having flashbacks now to the night before the shoot. I was tacking down the binding as quickly as possible and stitching padding into the shoulders until 3am or something (I think I was finishing the modern stays body too that night, I can't remember). Then got up at 6am to hammer the eyelets in! I'm rubbish on reduced sleep, was exhausted.
In thinking about alternate versions, I imagined this piece in midnight blue or stormy grey, perhaps quilted with clouds again though there's obviously a lot of scope for creativity here. Maybe some sort of Blake inspired horse drawn chariot across the skies? I would love to do it with regular overbust or sweetheart midbust shaping though, I think it would be divine.
Anyway, I'm still soggy after walking in the rain earlier, so I'm now going to spend my evening relaxing. Got myself some new walking boots that need breaking in, so might walk into town tomorrow. Those who have sent me emails or left comments, please hang tight, still battling with no broadband at home. Hope everyone's weekend is pleasant :-)
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