With the first step complete (the coloured spoon bodice) I now had to work out what I was going to use on the rest of my piece and how I was going to use it. This turned out to be a big challenge...... My first thought was to use fishing net for the skirt, but, for some reason it wasn't sitting right in my mind. What to do!
After what seemed like an endless night of tossing and turning, which involved countless minutes (or was it hours) of looking out my balcony door ...... I found myself looking AT my balcony door .......
After what seemed like an endless night of tossing and turning, which involved countless minutes (or was it hours) of looking out my balcony door ...... I found myself looking AT my balcony door .......
Inspiration was once again ignited in my brain!
The next day I went for a trip to the Buderim Dump shop and found this lovely, beaten screen door. After purchasing for next to nothing (I did have to talk them down, considering I picked the most bent, beaten and least likely to be used as a door again item) I took it back to the factory and pulled it apart.
After looking at it for a while, I decided to cut large fishtail sized shapes out of it with a couple of side panels with pointed ends to create a large fishtail style skirt ... FAIL! ... walking in it was going to be a major challenge,, so I scrapped that idea and spent the rest of the afternoon looking at the possible shapes and what I could do with them. I was struggling, so I decided to walk away from it and wait to see if anything came to mind ....... I wasn't under any pressure yet.
I decided, while I was still having a mental block on the bottom part of this piece, the next step was to strip some electrical wire I had and use it for the straps on my bodice. Another part of the piece I needed to sort out. After I had bent the wire in random 'swirls', I sewed it to the bodice and tried it on......
The next day I went for a trip to the Buderim Dump shop and found this lovely, beaten screen door. After purchasing for next to nothing (I did have to talk them down, considering I picked the most bent, beaten and least likely to be used as a door again item) I took it back to the factory and pulled it apart.
After looking at it for a while, I decided to cut large fishtail sized shapes out of it with a couple of side panels with pointed ends to create a large fishtail style skirt ... FAIL! ... walking in it was going to be a major challenge,, so I scrapped that idea and spent the rest of the afternoon looking at the possible shapes and what I could do with them. I was struggling, so I decided to walk away from it and wait to see if anything came to mind ....... I wasn't under any pressure yet.
I decided, while I was still having a mental block on the bottom part of this piece, the next step was to strip some electrical wire I had and use it for the straps on my bodice. Another part of the piece I needed to sort out. After I had bent the wire in random 'swirls', I sewed it to the bodice and tried it on......
looking good, just need to widen the straps a bit more, but starting to take shape. Time to go back to trying to work out how the bottom of this piece was going to turn out ....... it sure was becoming a bit of a challenge!
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