//// On making: Armadillo shrug
Posted on | January 10, 2010 | 8 Comments
The rest of the zippers I have left are slowly forming a small shrug piece. I used yesterday bit over two hours to pin half of it to place, just to see if I have enough material. And I do!
For me Armadillo shrug is more constructed shoulder piece than zipper piece. I tried to find some neat constructed shoulder stuff from London sales but with bad luck — all things I liked were wrong size, or did not fit me somehow. I try to make this one relatively simple. I hope that it can be slipped over tops but also over jackets to upgrade the shape. The shoulders will get some rigid tulle underneath if the stifness of zippers is not enough to keep them in shape. The sewing should force the shoulder to point upwards even more than in here. The whole thing looks still quite a mess, but it will hopefully arrange in more orderly way later when I’m actually sewing the zippers together.
Next stage is to lightly baste the thing together so that I can remove it from Lotta. Poor Lotta, there might be about 200 needles pinned on her right now. And then… …some handsewing. To be honest, I’m not waiting for that eagerly. But eventually it will be done — and many mediocre TV-series episodes watched while sewing…
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January 10th, 2010 @ 1:14 pm
Wau, näyttää upealta tähän mennessä, aivan mahtava idea! Tsemppiä loppusuoralle
January 10th, 2010 @ 1:55 pm
Cool! Mä en ole erityisemmin ollut ihastunut vetskari juttuihin, kun tuntuu että kaikki vaan kopioi toisiaan, mutta tässä on jotain uutta! Näyttää nyt jo tosi hyvältä.
January 10th, 2010 @ 7:26 pm
i’ve always thought of it as an adaptation of the strong shoulder look too. i can’t wait to see the result!
it’s frozen yogurt, which is only slightly better haha.
January 10th, 2010 @ 8:32 pm
oh wow — i love this! makes me wish i had tons of zippers lying around. i need more structured shoulders!
January 10th, 2010 @ 11:08 pm
Mahtava! Mä olen toivonut törmääväni jonkinlaiseen mageeseen monikäyttöiseen shoulder-pieceen kanssa, mut eipä ole kävellyt vastaan…
January 11th, 2010 @ 1:45 pm
Please, please watch tons of TV and finish this shrug at the quickest. I am very eager to see the result
January 11th, 2010 @ 6:59 pm
This is incredible! I can’t wait to see the finished piece.
January 12th, 2010 @ 6:20 am
this is very exciting! I can’t wait to see it finished. I love the way you’ve used the zippers to create architecture in the shrug.