// 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…

Posted on | January 10, 2010 | 8 Comments

// Oh, it’s coming up nice!

Posted on | October 22, 2009 | 3 Comments

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This evening I have been busy sewing the zipper teeth to cotton tape… …and I just can’t wait to be finished. Can’t really say that I feel very creative — but my thoughts about the possibilities of this great accessory more than keep me going. This piece will be slightly different to Outi’s with freely hanging zipper ends. I aim to the exact replica from the image above — the tapes on the bottom make the piece extremely versatile. That means 88 zipper ends to be sewn, 66 should be done tonight by the bedtime.

Image from Tobacco and Leather.

Posted on | October 22, 2009 | 3 Comments

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