Last fall when I did my Canvas to Couture collection, I’d planned on completing twelve looks. Then Project Runway did a challenge toward the end of the season in which the designers were asked to create their own fabrics and design a look for Heidi Klum. I’m starting to think she conceived this entire series as a means to fill her own closet.
That meant I ended up with thirteen looks, and you know that number makes me twitch. I could have dropped one of the looks before I hang the collection in August, making it a pleasant dozen, but since I needed another creative project anyway…
First I did this. Then I began working on this.
It isn’t finished–you may see pins and a needle and thread sticking out of the bottom. It also needs to be accessorized; that yellow ribbon holding it together while I sew it is not part of the final look. Still, it will take the Canvas to Couture series to a satisfying fourteen.
I LOVE the color ands the poofy bottom.
PS: What kind of shoes do you plan to use? You know I always love the shoes!
Thanks, Gary. =)
I’ll be sure to photograph her when she’s finished so you can see her accessories–including the shoes.
I should think a “baker’s dozen” of designs would be good luck. 13 is such a nifty number. It always amused me as a kid when the man at the farm stand would give us 13 ears of corn just in case one was not quite good enough. (by the way – TJL’s father’s birthday is on a 13th). hmmmm. I ramble. OH – YES – and I’m so glad you are feeling better!
Thanks! My LJ friend Todd says 13 is actually very lucky. But for some reason, I just can’t leave anything at 13.
“Baker’s dozen” is a term I rarely hear. It’s sort of going into a book of mine if I ever write that book, and I always wonder if readers will know what it means.
Baker’s dozen is a term I have known forever. I don’t know if that has anything to do with having an uncle who is a baker. Now I want pastries.
You ALWAYS want pastries. I’ve tasted your uncle’s creations, so if he made the pastries, even I would want them.
It seems like it makes her look taaallll… I want one!
🙂
And I must say, what an honor for these ladies to wear your paintings!
It’s funny ’cause she’s on her stand, but the dress is so tight that I couldn’t get her on it properly–which made her hover about an inch above the black platform. She’s tall, and she can levitate!
Thanks–if those dolls could talk–well, first of all, that would be creepy–but if they could, I hope they’d enjoy the fashions. Though they might take issue with the pins.
Love the fabric pattern.
Thanks, Mark!