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When I began sewing in 2000,
I started by making
costumes and shirts. I've made about 50 shirts over the years.
Some have
been made for others, but most have been casual shirts I've made for
myself. Recently, I've taken a more creative approach to the shirt design
- combining different fabrics and techniques to create unique pieces.
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Mossy Stone
This early project began with some
home dec fabric that I made into a shirt. The colors reminded me of
moss-covered rocks.
Won third place at the 2002
State Fair of Oklahoma
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 Harry Potter
Phil is a huge Harry Potter
fanatic. This shirt was constructed from a Harry Potter fabric panel and a
couple of coordinating fabrics.
The fabric panel was
designed to be used as a quilt, so the fun of this project was cutting up
and re-arranging the pieces to fit on a shirt - the big panel on the back
arranged so the arch went from shoulder to shoulder, the house emblems
on the front, the rope design along the front facings, the "Harry Potter"
text logo wrapping around the collar, and the large Gryffindor crest (cut
from a pillow panel) cut to make the pocket.
Phil usually wears this
shirt when we go to the Harry Potter movies.
Won second place at the 2003
State Fair of Oklahoma
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Geisha
Portraits
I love Asian-style fabrics
and this shirt began with a terrific
Alexander Henry print called "Beautiful Shozo" combined with a nice
mottled burgundy fabric.
Won first place at the 2004
State Fair of Oklahoma
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Gingko
Fantasia
This shirt used a beautiful
piece of fabric from the "Gingko Fantasy" line designed by
Lonni Rossi. It's a mottled black
background with lovely red blocks with gold gingko leaves.
I saw this fabric at a quilt
show and my mind immediately started picturing how to lay out the shirt.
The fabric has small motifs running along the left and right sides, with
larger motifs running along the center. By laying the pattern pieces
carefully, I was able to make the designs flow around the shirt in
interesting ways - large motifs running down the center back, small motifs
on the front panels, and wrapping around the sleeves and collar. When
completed, the shirt came out exactly as I had imagined it.
I attended the 2005
International Quilt Festival in Houston and stopped by Lonni Rossi's
booth. She was so sweet and complimentary and even posed for a photo with
me.
Gingko Fantasia won first place at the 2005
State Fair of Oklahoma.
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Pharaoh
This shirt was started
shortly after I completed the
Pharaoh
quilt for the MEN OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS quilt exhibition. Using the
designs I created for the quilt, I built another Pharaoh appliqué using my
hand-dyed fabrics on a mottled burgundy base fabric.
The left side of the
shirt features an Eye of Horus appliqué on the pocket and is built on a commercial
fabric called "Pharaoh" from Alexander Henry.
Other details
include burgundy sleeves with contrasting sleeve bands and decorative
stitching.
I knew I was going to
Houston to see the premiere of the MEN OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS exhibit, so
I created this shirt so I could wear it and folks would know which piece
was mine!
This shirt won first place
at the 2006 State Fair of Oklahoma.
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Frida's Garden
 This shirt was
inspired by the bright colors and folk art graphics found in the many
paintings and self-portraits of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
As soon as I saw the
gorgeous fabric prints from Alexander Henry, I knew they would have to be
featured in a shirt.
My Pfaff creative vision
embroidery machine had a large decorative stitch that coordinated
perfectly with the flowers on the fabric. The embroidery was sewn using
Sulky Blendables 30-weight cotton thread.
This shirt won first place
at the 2008 State Fair of Oklahoma and second place at the 2009 OKC Winter
Quilt & Embroidery Show.
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