I recently had an opportunity to make a dress for the Heart and Stroke Red Hot in the City Gala at the Mercedies Benz dealership in Halifax. Here is the dress I made! At the bottom shows the back, there is a cutout of the diamond on the back

Fabric Fiber Fashion Final, More Solvie Fun

So everyone, My winter semester is over. I've completed my third year of my bachelor of Fine Arts. I have two more to go, because I am taking a reduced course load.

This is my final project in FFF, and its made from solvie. Anyone who actually reads this thing with any kind of frequency will recognize the part around my face. Its my last project, and I made a coat to go with it. Its a collar/hood type of thing, made again entirely out of thread.

Solvie is plastic made of glue to make a plastic sheet. It was originally created to launder soiled linens so you could throw the whole bag into the washing machine and it would dissolve. If you sew into it and dissolve it, you can make textiles with it.

I made the coat by using the plastic on a dressmakers form to create the shape of the coat and sleeves and such. I sewed a gridwork into the coat with an industrial sewing machine, and then used a free motion food on a domestic sewing machine to sew the thicker white silk organza parts in. Then I dissolved it in my bathtub. It's the same process I used to make the coloured part.

Here it is

some of these were taken while I was talking

Hello everyone. GUESS WHAT?!

ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!

the last one where anything new happens until I am 65. I am 21 today! and while all you Americans who read accidentally end up on my blog are thinking "man, she is going to get so wasted today", SURPRISE! I'm Canadian and therefore have been of legal drinking age for two years today. HAH! take that USA.

Being 21 is actually awesome though because I was supposed to go to New York in April, but the trip has been postponed for a year (immense disappointment ).


I have been wanting a leather Roots purse for about... four years. For those of you who aren't thoroughbred Canadians, you're thinking "What the fuck is roots." Roots is one of the most pervasive Canadian brands and make AWESOME LEATHER BAGS!

AND I GOT ONE FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!

Yarn!

So, I decided to natural dye and hand knit conceptual sweaters based on memories. A girl in my class said I wouldn't get it done, so I took it as a personal challenge. Here is a picture of the yarns i have spun as of today and the knitting in the back! yeesh! I am done all my dye work, I just need to spin more white... a lot more white.

The brown ball in the front is actually green, weird how the photo blew it out.

I am not feeling 100% today so I am knitting and watching Spirited Away, Yeehaw! my birthday is on Saturday and I don't want a cold or flu for then!

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Solvie, FFF Fun

Hello friends.

What is solvie? Solvie is awesome. Its a plastic bag type of stuff that was originally used for soiled linens so only one set of hands would have to touch it, because it dissolves when it touches water (so you'd throw the whole bag in the washer and then not have to deal with it after)

Once creative people got a hold of it, they realized that you can sew stuff onto it, and when you dissolve it you have (drumroll) LACE!

This is silk organza and thread. That's it!!!!

My whole class has realized solvie is made out of glue. So, if you want stiffness, you rinse it a little. If you want smoothness, you rinse it a lot!

Wearable Art Show 2011 and 2012

Wearable Art Show 2012 was last Saturday (March 10th) and here I am modelling for Pamela Stone and Sarah Colette

I never received my studio photos from Wearable Art Show 2011, and here they are! There was a mix up and I never received the link to where they were! These are designed by me, Shot by Alex Chisholm (May not be modified, resold, syndicated, and/or published in print or any electronic media without written permission of the creator Alexander Chisholm). The models are Angela Glanzmann in pink and Natasha Rider in purple.

Wearable Art Show 2012

For those of you who are in Halifax, Come out tonight and check out NSCAD's Wearable Art Show at the Halifax Forum. I will be modelling for Pam Stone!

Capsules

According to all of my stats, capsule wardrobes are everyone's favorite thing on this blog so I thought I'd compile mine all onto one page for you!

I had a summer one, but being canadian I felt like it might not contain the best advice. So instead I threw in a winter outfit.

The Original Capsule Wardrobe, Everything you need for a year

Another Capsule Wardrobe

One Dress Four Ways, Dressing up your Basics

(Canadian) Winter Capsule

 Dressing a Modern Vs Vintage Silhouette