Forgive the pun! Just wanting to show that I am also getting ready for some 'Moore' work! The exclusive textiles are quite difficult to find bedfellows for, if you get my drift, and at times I'm buying fabrics not knowing if the risk will pay off! I think I am developing quite an oblique way of looking at textile colour and design and certainly enjoying the search. I have now started to consider vintage (but unused) fabrics, some of which appear quite wacky in comparison to the modern safe stuff! And I'm hoping I this will give the bags a more authentic look - for those that like that sort of thing - we'll see!
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I've made a start on turning those lovely vintage fabrics into practical bags that really pop with vibrant 60's flowers. It may be a while before the next one emerges as I have a very special project to work on in collaboration with The Henry Moore Foundation. Please come back to my blog in a few days to see how I'm getting on.
I must say: I am going to stick with my tried and tested ways of working! The piping worked well-I made it from scratch (with my new adjustable zipper foot), but in order to have an integral zipped top, putting all the pieces together with the lining was a cross between origami and chinese water torture!
You'll have noticed from my recent Facebook and Instagram posts that I've been steadily acquiring vintage and vintage style fabrics and the more vibrant the better! I've been trying to work up some new designs to do them credit! My first design looks fine (if you don't look too close!) but was so fiddly I can't possible do it again and stay sane! I think a square bag cross body bag is the next step... Here's a prototype ready to be stitched. I'm trying a new method of assembly this time. usually I make the outer, then the lining and sew them together round the top, inside out and then 'give birth' to the new bag through a small gap in the lining stitching, by pulling it all through! The new method stitches the lining in as you go, I think you still have to give birth, but you end up with a completed bag inside out just to turn the right way round! Anyhow-I'll let you know how it goes - I like a new challenge!
Superb design from the 1950's re-visited by Sanderson recently. I have a few pieces of 'Mobiles' in several colourways, so am starting with a lovely powder blue. I'm going to team it up with a contemporary designer-no less than Red or Dead's Wayne Hemingway - who has branched out into textile design. This one is called knotted up for obvious reasons! The beginnings of a flapped clutch bag. A bright yellow vintage button completes the look! At a later date I added a bow, which really looked a lot better!
A shell-like patterned fabric with a shiny finish needed to be shaped into something compact and pretty. After a bit of thought and a few drawings, this was the result. I managed to break an ideal vintage buckle (doh!) so one of the little funky floral ones had to be understudy. I do love working with dupion silk for the lining and a few faceted beads just topped off the front beautifully.
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Hello, I'm Ruth Overton. My nickname as a child was 'Ruthie Toots' which is how the name Archives
March 2024
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