Bird of Paradise Coat
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Made for the New Zealand Wearable Art Awards, 1994. Selected for final judging. Machine knit, hand embroidered reversible full length sleeveless coat with faux fur fringe. Mixed yarns. |
All Day Not Everyday Pyjamas
| Made for the New Zealand Wearable Art Awards, 1995. Selected for final judging. Machine knit, hand embroidered bat wing top worn with dark blue trackdaks. Long tail cap, machine knit, hand embroidered. Top and cap made from mohair and ribbons. |  |
Flexible Gold
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This piece was made for the Art Thread Design Exhibition in Canberra in November 2000. The theme was Summer Frolics and was meant to feed into the end of year Formal and Christmas season party mood. As all my work till then was mainly aimed at the winter wooly market I had to think, and work, fast. So out came the lurex thread and crochet hook and this piece emerged………a six or so inch band of trebles finished with a two length chain fringe. A variation on a grass skirt perhaps. For the gorgeous young models this could be a skirt, a very short strapless dress or a headpiece. For the gorgeous mature models this was a collar……..worn over basic black. In this picture it is draped over a prop and becomes an art piece - how flexible can you get! |
Blue Glitz
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This piece was also made for the November 2000 Art Thread Design Exhibition. After Flexible Gold was finished I had no more lurex and quickly contacted a yarn supplier who assured me on the phone that he had some gorgeous colours at prices to die for - peacock, black/gold, purple, red/green mix. I ordered them all and they arrived as promised. What I didn't expect was the fine filaments I unpacked. So I ran them through the spinning wheel together then plied the resulting singles till I had the most beautiful soft yarn imaginable - the final colour quality and depth of iridescence of which was far more than the sum of the parts. Like the Flexible Gold piece, Blue Glitz can be worn by whomever and however it suits. The band is crocheted squares using an old counterpane popcorn motif pattern that I knew by heart. The fringe is crocheted chains twisted double. |
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Black & White Feathered Boa
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Hayfield make a yarn called Deco, a wonderful series of thick variegated 'chunks' of fleece separated by finely twisted thread almost fine enough to thread a needle with. It comes in a range of colour combinations and, lest I start sounding like a sales rep for the company, lends itself to all sorts of knitting adventures beyond the usual! For this piece I cut the yarn into double 'feather' lengths giving me lots of pieces with a fleecey 'feather' bit at each end and the fine thread between. These I knit wove into a two metre long piece, narrow at each end and relatively wide in the middle. It makes a fabulous Boa if I say so myself! Made for Fibre Forum Mittagong 2001 |