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Cactus Couture
by Sally Rattenbury
Media: Stretch jersey, plastic tubing, wire, beads, buckram
During a fabric manipulation workshop at START, an experimental smocking idea gave birth to my cactus form. I adapted some of the materials used, but kept with the basic smocking effect.
This was brought about by trapping plastic tubing pieces in hand dyed stretchy fabric, using green wire, or knitted tubing with wire inserted. Copper wire was then used to attach a few beads.
The smocked sections were sewn onto a dyed piece of millinery buckram which I blocked over a bowl.
To give my hat a little ‘couture’, a length of pearl organza was scrunched and stitched in place at the side. I am quite satisfied with this piece because it literally grew from a pile of ‘throw away’ things, and evolved before my eyes into a fully formed hat.
Frame 17 of 23
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