A change of heart….

 

When I started this project way back in 2009 I had a sort of plan in my head of what I wanted the out come to be….but…not having enough room in our tiny flat to expand and see my project in its entirety…I guessed…then life got in the way, my project was folded neatly away to make room for the day to day…

Now i have plenty of room….with new inspirations from classes taken on like I am having a change of heart…mainly because I just can’t remember my thinking form way back when….

…bravely I started to weave in the new inspiration… but to my dismay have found that the new inspiration does not gel with my old inspiration…the old inspiration looks hard and far to regimented…

Love does not alter…cont…

I first posted my “love does not alter” in April 2009, if you click on “Love does not alter” in “Labels” in the side bar you will find all the postings there…I stopped working on this piece because I did not have enough room in our tiny UK flat to spread the work out thus having an overall picture of the piece. Now i have ample room I need to pick it up again. Jude’s CWB workshop is just the inspiration I need to get me in the mood again…I hope to finish this by April..I want to wear it when we go back for a short break then…

Disguising the big blue......

...and so the disguise begins....

After I added the blue petals I noticed that the white ones disappeared...... to counter act this I added more white stitches and it worked quite well....I'm not sure that I have completed the motif yet, for the moment I am going to live with what I have done and move on to the other pocket.....clear my mind with a new task.

Big blue pockets...

Oh my just look at those blue pockets...... that aren't.... now the task is to disguise these blue patches...at the moment all I can see is two huge blue spots.....

the alteration continues....

I don't seem to be able to stay focused on anything at the moment. I really don't have an excuse because I have loads of time.

Anyway enough....

I have been busy here and there with the denim shirt I started to alter, slow progress and perhaps big dreams..

Some sketches of where I want this project to go but I think I might be getting myself into a spot of bother.....prehaps a bit ambitious...we'll see.

Putting my drawnings into reality has not been that difficult and Iam finding that having the drawing as reference quite useful...new ground for me as I always keep the picture of my intended project in my minds eye. The end result is never anything like the picture in my mind as I always have such grand designs .......

Well here is the start of the alteration of my beloved denim shirt. The design has been inspired by work done by Jude Hill over at spirit cloth.

"Love does not alter where it alteration finds...." Shakespear

I certainly hope that this will be the case by the time I have altered this denim shirt. I have had this shirt for so many years, it holds so many memories for me, it was so comfortable to wear.....so why would I want to alter it? In an effort to reinvent myself, to give myself a more feminine look, I decided that I did not want to part with this denim shirt which is a bit manly, I would try to feminize it.

I started by removing the collar, then the pockets, the cuffs, preparing the "canvas".

As I am now living in a colder climate I thought I might line it to ward off the chills of the UK weather.

Going through my stash I found this piece of shweshwe fabric that I have had almost as long as I have had this shirt so perhaps it would be good for them to come together.

I also have some fabric from a shirt I bought at the clothes market in Malawi.

Some ideas I have been trying out..... MDB is not keen on the square where it is......anything is possible.....