Who needs Denim
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The picture doesn't tell the full story of this garment. In brief, it's a knee length sleeveless jacket with a stuffed roll collar and it goes well with jeans or with more formal fabric slacks. It's made with many yarns…………….. mostly blues but also browns, golds, occasionally purples, orange and reds and uses a technique that I'm calling Super Garter. It's been a great garment to wear this last winter. |
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1995 Blues. And Gingers and Browns
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A medium length loose fitting, dropped shoulder sweater, machine knit and hand finished. Features intarsia blocks of colour highlighting the use of contrasting yarns - crepes, boucles, mohairs, ribbons. The beret is machine knit and hand embroidered using the same yarns. Made for the 1995 Women of Fibre Exhibition. |
Short Red and Long Brown
| Garments made for the Women of Fibre exhibition 1995. Both machine knit and hand embroidered. Short Red is a short cropped, three quarter sleeved sweater. Long Brown is a full length batwing sweater. Both made with mixed yarns, mostly wools and mohairs with silk and ribbon highlights.. |  |
Warm? Cool!
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Made for the Women of Fibre 1995 exhibition. A machine knitted, hand embroidered thigh length sleeveless coat made in wools, mohairs, silks, cottons, ribbons and metallic yarns. The embroidery occurs all over the jacket but is intensified at the shoulders and along the bottom edge. The cap is made of the same yarns using the same techniques. |
Woolly Bomber Jacket
| Woolly Bomber Jacket Made for the 1996 Artisans at Orana exhibition. Machine knit, long sleeved, jacket banded at the wrist and waist, made using intarsia blocks some of which feature short cropped faux fur. Multi yarns. |
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Navy and Reds
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Two very different garments made with the same yarns in 1997/98. Both machine knitted and hand finished. That on the left is a sleeveless thigh length coat featuring faux fur along all edges - round the neckline, fronts and bottom as well as the armholes. The jacket on the right is a medium length, dropped shoulder loose fitting sweater made in intarsia blocks and finished with braiding. |