... round 2

look 5 | Cropped cardigan, knit in-the-round and cut, in contrast jacquard design.

Crochet start (black) at hem of the sweater transitions into knit pattern, and large fur hook

closures line the CF, which is bound in black cloth and hand-beaded flat in plastic beads.

Jersey construction in sleeves with rounded shaping finish with 1x1 cuffs.

Sweater worn over chest-piece made from linen yarn and shell/bone/plastic beads.

Wool skirt with invisible side-zip and needle felted/hand-painted stripes.

look 6 | Woven wool coat-suit with the same wet-felted square patch-work,

then machine-stitched/needle-felted process that I showed in my earlier sketches.

Bottom portion of the coat will transition entirely into white felt.

The coat contains hidden front pockets, a notched collar and hidden CF 5-button closure.

Worn with simple straight-fit cropped wool pant-- fly-front closure and side pockets.

Low v-neck Shetland wool sweater with contrast color jacquard design, bottom

portion has white angora yarn knit in, 1x1 finishes. Chest-piece worn beneath. Rib socks.

look 7 | Tight-fitting jersey turtle neck sweater knit in white wool,

then washed, and then dyed with onion skins.

Fully-fashioned with set-in sleeves. Chest-piece worn over top.

Baggy woven-wool pant with fly-front zip closure and hidden slit pockets.

... some sort of hand-painted quality.

look 8 | Oversized intarsia patterned sweater in black and white Shetland wool.

Jersey construction in sleeves with rounded shaping, 2x2 cuff this time.

Tucked into folk-embroidered/hand-beaded corset belt with hook closures down CF.

Worn with wool pencil skirt with CB slit and CF surface design. 1x1 knit high-socks too.

first sketches in many a moon

look one | Woven cape coat with waist tie, surface design consists of

irregular squares of wet-felted wool machine stitched/needle-felted to woven coat fabric.

Woven alpaca, machine embroidered pea coat & box skirt set worn underneath.

Chest piece made from shell/bone beads and linen yarn.

Hair piece, cotton crocheted flowers hand-tacked in place with hand-beading.

look two | Woven wool skirt-suit with the same process of surface design as above.

(smaller squares irregularly shaped arranged on woven base and tacked on with machine)

Jacket has hidden pockets. Tailored seam lines in both jacket & skirt.

Fair Isle cropped sweater worn beneath, black and white shetland wool.

Hand painted tights.

Macrame hair piece with hand-beading.

look three | Multi-color box patterned knit scarf with fringe at start and finish.

Cropped jersey sweater in shetland wool, with long, long sleeves.

Tube/tank dress with high slit off-centered,

irregular ribs, drop stitches and pin tucks, then wet felted, & woven nylon slip worn beneath.

Woven embroidered work belt with hidden zipper pockets. Hand-beaded hair/ear-ring clip.

look four | Oversized intarsia sweater with yoke detail, in black and white shetland wool.

Woven skirt has an inverted pleat at CF, & needle-felted pattern in black wool,

hand-embroidery design inside of pleat.

Hand-painted tights.