Amy’s Wearable Art Page

Fabric Beads
The beads were started at the March 2002 meeting of the Wearable Art Study Group of the Pacific Northwest Needle Arts Guild.

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Seminole Ensemble
This sweatshirt started at the June 2001 Wearable Art Study Group meeting. The purse started at our February 2002 meeting.

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Seminole
Fused Glass
Made a trip with some friends in June 2001 to the Grünewald Guild near the town of Plain, Washington state, USA to try fusing glass.

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Sari Ensemble
This project started out with a sari from India, purchased in Singapore in 1999.  First I made the World's Easiest Jacket , taught by Larkin Van Horn in November 2000.  Then I made a skirt and blouse to go with it.

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Detachable Collar, "Let's Have a Big Hand for Amy"
Some friends got together for a Round Robin project.  Each owner started off by providing a foundation in the fabric of her choice, in the shape of her choice.  Then the others worked on the collar in layers, contributing materials & embellishments from their stashes.  The collars returned to the owners for final lining and addition of a closure.  The collars were displayed together, as a grouping, at the Pacific Northwest Needle Arts Guild Fiber Show .
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Quilt, "Barnum's Animals for the Proctor Family"
My dear friend Karen & I have a tradition of eating Barnum's animal cookies in the car when we travel to distant Sewing Expos and Fabric Stores.  When I learned that she & her husband Doug were expecting their first baby, I started this quilt based on that theme.  Karen delivered Theodore Bryce Proctor on August 9, 2000.

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Vest, "Xena Digs the Flower Bed"
In the Wearable Art Study Group of the Pacific Northwest Needle Arts Guild , the goal of the '99-'00 program year was to explore different techniques for use in our own projects.  The challenge was to use what we learned, and model the result in the fashion show at the May 2000 PNNAG General Meeting.  This project started out with baggie-dyeing from our September '99 meeting.  It  includes credit card fabric painting and crayon rubbings of rubber stamps from our October '99 meeting.  It also includes dimensional flowers inspired by our February '99 meeting.  The ones I used came from Rebecca Wat's " Fantastic Fabric Folding " which was just published a couple of weeks after our meeting.  This project is dedicated to Cascades Princess Xena born January 13, 2000.
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Round Robin Vest, "Turn of the Century"
From the fall of 1998 through the spring of 1999, I participated in a Round Robin Garment project with other members of theWearable Art Study Group of the Pacific Northwest Needle Arts Guild . Each participant fills a box with the fabrics, trims, fibers, beads, etc. of her choice, plus a muslin cut to fit herself. Then each month a different person embellishes a piece of the muslin. At the end of the rotation, the owner assembles the garment from the embellished pieces. We modeled our finished garments in our Wearable Art Fashion Show at our May 1999 meeting.
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Vest, "Launch Delay at the Cape"
In October of 1996, I took Joan Colvin's class, "Sculpting for Joy", based on her book, "The Nature of Design" .  She encouraged us to base our work on subjects from nature.  I have been fascinated with the forms of lightning since childhood, but after years in the space business, lightning has come to represent one of many reasons for delaying a rocket launch.  In June of 1995, the Space Shuttle Discovery suffered a launch delay due to damage caused by amorous woodpeckers.  Other schedule busters include faulty gyroscopes and electronics.  All of these themes are represented in this piece, which finally blasted off in June 1998.  Thanks to artistic friends Cindy, Heidi, and Larkin for constructive kibbitzing in the final stages (you'll recognize your suggestions).
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Red Mask Shirt
In January of 1998, a friend gave me a piece of red fabric with masks printed on it, and challenged me to make something out of it.  Here is the result:

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Round Robin Jacket, "The Kerbau Ride"

Here is another round robin project of the PNNAG Wearable Art Study Group.  I used the jacket view of the Kimono Jacket and Vest pattern #1007 from Purrfection Artistic Wearables.

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Bog Coat, "Hot Day on the Equator"
In the fall of 1996, I took a class in Seattle, WA, USA, entitled, “The Amazing Bog Coat”, taught by Larkin Van Horn. This coat design gets its name from the Danish bog in which was found a mummy wearing such a coat. A flat rectangle is embellished, then underarm slits and a neck opening are cut. The sleeves fold down and the sides fold in. After sewing the front/sleeve seam, cuffs and a neck band are added. The focus fabric with the orange triangles is from Africa, and was given to me by my sister, Abbie .
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Japanese Vest
In the spring of 1996, I bought a piece of silk from an old kimono at the Sewing & Stitchery Expo held at the Washington State Fairgrounds in Puyallup, WA, USA. That July, I made a vest from it, using Purrfection Artistic Wearables pattern #1007.
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