I made this wonderful Time Traveler Steampunk outfit for Halloween and wore it to the annual Nauvoo Pumpkin Walk Halloween weekend. The vest sports different antique gold buttons down its front and is made from several different home dec fabrics. The cropped jacket is made from a fabulous patterned brocade that looks like it's been pieced from several different prints, but is actually one fabric. I fell in love with it on sight -- it was so me! The dress is a shimmery neutral brown with small leafy vines throughout that take on other shades of gold and brown as the light hits them. I'm wearing the ensemble with my Time Travel mismatched earrings and coordinating brooch. This is my new favorite outfit, and I'm going to have to find places to wear it other than for dress-up!
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I found this man's shirt at my local thrift store and had to have it! It was perfect for an art shirt with all those rectangular panes, don't you think? However, once I had it at home I agonized over what fabric to display in the panes. Then I woke one morning certain. I would use my secret stash of cat fabrics for them! I under-stitch appliqued them onto the shirt front and back, using various cats cut out from my stash. It turned out so awesome!!! Please note: a back view of the shirt can be seen if you click on the photo on the webpage for this top.
I made this cute pullover top to go with my new sunflower skirt I found out shopping one day. When I got it home, I realized that the only tops I had that went with it were black. And it demanded a sunnier top! I had to think quick. Luckily I had a yellow polo shirt some misguided person thought was just my style (what could they have been thinking???) But apparently they had it right, because once I got done altering it, the top was exactly in my style! *grin*
Isn't this dress gorgeous? Using the same pattern I created for my aqua dress last summer, I made this fabulous dress today using a beautiful fabric I found at a thrift store. It was used to make a tent dress, but I knew it wanted to be showcased in a better setting, so I brought it home and used it for the skirt of my maxi dress, matching it with my favorite butterfly print for the bodice and a pretty pink floral fabric I had that was once a bed sheet. On a side note: I want to thank my daughter for taking such great pictures of me in my creations. She always manages to get me looking my best.
I had fun designing and making this delightful top. I used favorite scraps from my fabric stash, including some cherished fairy prints. The top turned out so much cuter than I expected. What do you think?
I finally made my Journey Girl doll a fairy dress! Using scraps of peacock
feather microfiber for the bodice, I added tulip petal-shaped variegated shimmer crinkle organza and marbled silk ribbon ties for the skirt. The ties were also used to bind the bodice and make a halter tie behind the neck. Cute panties were made from more scraps of the peacock feather fabric. Finally, a purchased dog fairy wings set was used to add the final touch. Isn't she perfect? So of course, the girls' Journey Girl dolls had to have their own Indian princess dress and poncho! Instead of skirts and t-shirts, I made each of the dolls a dress using a lovely maroon knit for the bodice and adding wooden beads and bells on a ribbon string. The ponchos also got a bead added to the
front so the girls could tell which outfit was theirs. Didn't they turn out cute? These outfits were fun to design and make for my granddaughters for our PowWow adventure this weekend. The skirts and ponchos were made from a patterned maroon suede that fringed beautifully. They wore them with salmon t-shirts that I'd appliqued with Native American girls wearing the same outfits. What a great way to celebrate Early American culture!
I designed this delightful top, but was very nervous about how it would turn
out once I got it made. But I couldn't be happier! It ended up even prettier than I had imagined! Since it's made from a great tropical knit, it fits and wears like a dream. Who said comfort had to be boring? Not me!!! *grin* This was Elise's design for her Journey Doll. She couldn't find the right
pencil crayon to color the dress the way she wanted, but between us, we came up with the fabric that worked for what she envisioned. It was a gorgeous navy blue stretch velvet with silver glitter accent, and it made a lovely gown for her doll. I finished it in time for her to have her doll wear it on Easter. Yea! |
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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