Tangled threads - a Metaphor for unravelling
Do you ever look at a piece of fabric and wonder to yourself, "What was I thinkin' when I bought this?"
It has been three years since my last fashion show and that long since I've done any serious sewing. My life took a very different shift after that fashion show, Oct 10, 2003 curated by Linda Schmidt called "Designing Women". Rachel Clark, Janet Paluch and I met up there for the first time in years and we immediately picked up where we left off last time we saw each other, giggling and catching up on news.
Two days after that show, I packed my stuff in my Escort wagon and headed to Baja where I spent six glorious months resting, reading, reading, reading and soaking up the essence of laid-back oceanside living. Ahhhhh Bajaaaahhhh......
This story is not about traveling many miles during the past three years, literally and figuratively, it's about how once again I need to design personal fashions. Have you ever purged possessions, packed and then a few years later try to find things? That's where I am this morning.
Tangled threads - a Metaphor for unravelling the jumbled mess of boxes of fabrics and notions, trying to get reorganized so I can cut out a garment and stitch it together. Finding fabric, like I mentioned earlier - what was I thinkin'???? And other fabric I've hauled around for years, intending to use, but, simply owning it is enough for now.
In my Napa home, I had two studios, one as a painting studio and the other a fiber studio. Now, in my cute little home in the Sacramento Burbs, I have an office with plenty of room for my sewing machines. But where do I end up? Cutting on the 8' island in my kitchen with my machines on the kitchen table.
It's touching the fabric that sends me and always has - Much more to comment on as the days unfold.....
— Viktorya
It has been three years since my last fashion show and that long since I've done any serious sewing. My life took a very different shift after that fashion show, Oct 10, 2003 curated by Linda Schmidt called "Designing Women". Rachel Clark, Janet Paluch and I met up there for the first time in years and we immediately picked up where we left off last time we saw each other, giggling and catching up on news.
Two days after that show, I packed my stuff in my Escort wagon and headed to Baja where I spent six glorious months resting, reading, reading, reading and soaking up the essence of laid-back oceanside living. Ahhhhh Bajaaaahhhh......
This story is not about traveling many miles during the past three years, literally and figuratively, it's about how once again I need to design personal fashions. Have you ever purged possessions, packed and then a few years later try to find things? That's where I am this morning.
Tangled threads - a Metaphor for unravelling the jumbled mess of boxes of fabrics and notions, trying to get reorganized so I can cut out a garment and stitch it together. Finding fabric, like I mentioned earlier - what was I thinkin'???? And other fabric I've hauled around for years, intending to use, but, simply owning it is enough for now.
In my Napa home, I had two studios, one as a painting studio and the other a fiber studio. Now, in my cute little home in the Sacramento Burbs, I have an office with plenty of room for my sewing machines. But where do I end up? Cutting on the 8' island in my kitchen with my machines on the kitchen table.
It's touching the fabric that sends me and always has - Much more to comment on as the days unfold.....
— Viktorya
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