While visiting my granddaughter this spring, I was told about a fun collection that a local school had done of Barbie dresses made from paper. The article inspired us to get out her mom's tissue paper and go to work! We spent a wonderful afternoon creating lovely works of art, which I photographed so that she'd always remember them. This flirty dress was my first design, and I thought it turned out fabulous! Thanks, Breana, for showing us the article!
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I loved, loved, loved this fabric! It looked like a post modern painting. So I brought it home from the secondhand clothing store even though the dress itself was rather sad looking. It didn't take much to bring it to a place where it makes a bold and fun statement. I updated the hemline to a more modern style and shortened the sleeves -- and now it rocks!!
This tunic came to me in a flash when I was shopping at my favorite secondhand clothing store. I saw a pretty black and white print that had been made into a dress that looked boring. So I brought it home and upscaled it to this design. Now it looks so chic! And all it took was a little time and a moment's inspiration. You never know when inspiration will strike, so it's important to remain open to new ideas all the time.
I saw a really cool tunic worn by one of my favorite fashionistas and had to have one for myself. So I designed this totally mod knit tunic from fabrics in my stash. It felt so decadent and wasteful to cut up a pattern into so many sections, but I told my practical side to shut up and got down to it. I think it turned out beautifully. What do you think?
I designed this fun eggplant suede Steampunk jacket to wear with all my other eggplant clothing I've made. I was pleased that it looked so well with my olive vest. There are purple elements in the foil that really pop with this jacket. I can't wait to wear my jacket this fall with my Victorian eggplant microsuede skirt. Woo-hoo!
This top was so easy to create! I found a gorgeous tropical print fabric at my local thrift store, but it was in a shirt and skirt set one size too small for me. Well, I didn't want that great tropical print from head to foot anyway, so I got the outfit, brought it home, and cut it up! I chopped off the shirt at the empire line and the skirt after the first ruffle. I stitched up the front of the shirt so that the buttons wouldn't show gaps when I wore it (I did say it was a size too small, after all!), then sewed it to the skirt bottom, gathering as I went. In less than two hours I had a lovely new tropical print tunic. Yea!
This top was so much fun to make! I designed it a while ago, but hadn't been able to locate three fun knit prints for it until I was going through some skirts I'd gotten at a sale. Three of them had fabrics that really went together well, so I cut them up and made my design. What do you think? Didn't it turn out fantastic?!
I had so much fun making this tunic! Using one of my favorite bodice patterns, I added it in an olive crinkle sheen to the bottom of a full skirted skirt I found at my local thrift store. I fell in love with the gorgeous border print used on the skirt, but the skirt itself was a few sizes too small for me. Well, I've never let that stop me, so I got it and chopped off the waistline to make my own tunic out of it. I love how full the skirt is, even in tunic form! And I love the compliments I get whenever I wear it!
This fun dress was created for the 2010 Nauvoo Area Fashion Show and got a lot of compliments. However, my size has shrunken since then, and it no longer fit me. So today I got the amazing thought to add a casing to the empire waistline with elastic to bring it in to my current size. It worked! And it really makes me look slim and trim too! Yea!
I went to a fun painting class with my friend Liz today, and this is what I created. You can't see all the lovely glitter in this snapshot of the painting, but it's there. I wanted to create a dress I knew I'd never wear, one that is not a flattering style for me but is still very much me (if that makes sense to you.) What do you think? Isn't it so pretty?
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Denise FeltI took this challenge in the hopes of expanding my creativity as an artist. Already I'm seeing art in a new light -- as something to do for fun and not just practicality! Archives
December 2015
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