T-shirt:
Materials Used: Cotton interlock, fabric paint
Techniques Used: Tracing paper used to apply image, fabric paint then applied by hand.
Jeans:
Materials Used: Cotton/spandex blend denim
Shoes:
Materials Used: Cotton canvas, blackout curtain lining, nylon cording, fabric paint
Jacket:
Materials Used: Cotton denim, micro-fleece, Sculpey clay, acrylic paintt
Techniques Used: Buttons made of Sculpey clay in proportion to garment, then painted with acrylic paint to provide more dimension.
Amanita Dress:
Materials Used: Muslin, fabric dye, fabric paint
Techniques Used: Dip dye used to achieve ombre, stenciled toadstool outline prior to hand painting detail (reference detail photo below).
Bat Dress:
Materials Used: Chiffon, embroidery floss, tulle, polyester lining, polyester thread
Techniques Used: Bats hand embroidered on bodice, abstract machine embroidery demonstrated on skirt (reference detail photo below).
Shattered Sunrise Dress:
Materials Used: Muslin, fabric dye, fabric paint, dye resist, fabric marker
Techniques Used: Dip dye used to achieve ombre, dye resist applied creating geometric shapes, fabric paint and markers used to define shapes after resist was removed.
Skull Tunic Tank:
Materials Used: Cotton poplin, fabric paint
Techniques Used: Skulls hand painted with black and white fabric paint (reference detail photo below).
Houndstooth Skirt:
Materials Used: Polyester/spandex blend suiting
Sugar Skull Block Print Tank:
Materials Used: Quilter's solid cotton, fabric paint
Techniques Used: Skull block printed utilizing found objects(reference detail photo below).
Square Block Print Shorts:
Materials Used: Quilter's solid cotton, fabric paint
Techniques Used: Squares block printed utilizing found objects(reference detail photo below).
Mercury Paper Monster Mash Dress:
Materials Used: Printed quilter's cotton, decorative paper
Techniques Used: Center front bodice was woven by hand(reference detail photo below).
From Left to Right:
1)Skull Tunic Tank detail
2)Bat Dress bodice detail
3)Amanita Dress hem detail
From Left to Right:
1)Mercury Paper Monster Mash Dress bodice detail
2)Sugar Skull Block Print Tank detail
3)Square Block Print Shorts detail
From Left to Right:
1) Shattered Sunrise and Amanita Dresses prior to dyeing and painting.
2) Bat Dress bodice attached to muslin, and stretched in an embroidery hoop, to prep for hand embroidery.
3) Mercury Paper Monster Mash Dress prior to finishing side seam.
From Left to Right:
1) Jacket fitting prior to attaching sleeves, hood, hem band, and front facings.
2) Shoes in progress; shoe sides getting hand sewn to tongue, before getting attached to soles.
From Left to Right:
1) Draping the Shattered Sunrise, Amanita and Bat Dresses on Amanita's custom dress form.
2) Nearly all of the pieces drafted and draped to construct the garments seen above.
From Left to Right:
1) Cutting out the pieces needed to construct the jacket.
2) Cutting out pieces needed for block print garments and mercury dress bodice.
From Left to Right:
1) Pattern pieces hand drawn to construct both model and dress form figures.
2) Assembling the dress form.
From Left to Right:
1) Attaching Amanita's completed face with discrete slipstitching.
2) Horn machine embroidery detail.
3) Amanita with the gang.
Amanita Model Figure:
Materials Used: Kona cotton, acrylic fur, fabric paint, jump rings, seed beads, Sculpey clay
Techniques Used: All face details and back scales hand painted, toadstool barrette made with Sculpey clay and then painted.
Amanita Dress Form Figure:
Materials Used: Muslin, interfacing
From Top to Bottom Left to Bottom Right:
1) Technical Drawings of jacket, pants and Civil Wear t-shirt.
2) Technical Drawings of Shattered Sunrise Dress.
3) Technical Drawings of Skull Tunic Tank and Houndstooth Skirt.
