STAND BACK!! This new skirt makes me happy for so many reasons. The easiest to explain is that I used a technique from the PARTY DRESS queen, Mary Adams. Her book explains how to use bias strips which I cut to make the leaves of the tree. A little more challenging to explain is why I used "Family of Trees" . . . ah--challenging but sweet for sure. It is a song that I really like, and it ties in so beautifully to a cafe story my manager without equal daughter told me about the powerful love of connected family. Hand painted birds of course. A circle skirt which encompasses everything.
I love bias. You can make your own shapes, literally paint with them. Ask me, I am finishing a small quilt with WAVY edges, and its so much more fun to follow the curves with a piece of homemade bias. Are you making your own?
ReplyDeleteI have a great parallelogram pattern piece which will make you miles of bias. xo
Loves Crookedness
Also, I have another bias method where you turn in the edges of each side of the strip using 1 pin on the iron board cover. It ends up looking like
ReplyDeletedouble fold bias tape, well, it is!