Making the Dress

For this piece i dug out one of my old dressed i used to wear pre-pregnancy. I also got my scan picture, i chose this as my imagery as it has less detail to work with so it wouldn’t matter that i would be using random strips of my sons baby clothes.

 

 

 

 

Using this frame that i found in a charity shop that is used in the creation of textile pieces i stretched the dress over it. The loom was perfect as i could resize it so that the dress was at the required tension

 

 

 

I transferred the scan picture onto the dress in reverse, so that when the dress it the right side out it wouldn’t the image wouldn’t be backwards.

 

 

 

 

 

Using a large embroidery needle and cut up strips of baby clothes, i pulled the fabric through the dress much like the regular proggy technique. This however took a lot more time than the regular technique would be on hessian. but it still worked all the same.

 

 

 

 

Once i had done the whole shape with the scraps of fabric i turned it back right side out. and it had lost its shape due to the floppiness of the fabric.

 

i reattached it to the frame and worked some red fleece around the outer edge of the piece. i added two rows of this to bring the shape in tighter together. once finished i tend it back the right way and the edge definitely helped bring the shape together