backlog

I've been busy costuming, and I believe I've mentioned various projects over the fall that never got photographed. My fantastic husband bought me a digital camera for my birthday, and so I'm able to take pictures of everything I've been working on!
The first is a sari silk costume that consists of fantastic harem pants (shown here), a vest out of the same fabric, and 10 long thin panels (to be created out of these fabrics shown here) that will hang from my beaded belt. These many elements are really time-consuming, especially the panels, which will also be beaded to add plenty of sparkle. I'm hoping to get a jump on all this creative stuff before I am overwhelmed with a deadline by which time it needs to be wearable.


The other completed project is what the dance troupe has been calling the indian bedspread skirt, because I bought 2 very CHEAP bedspreads from the IndiaArts catalogue and put them together to make one fantastic skirt (and one pair of fantastic harem pants that go underneath). They're just gorgeous to dance in and so much fun to make, too! All the different colors and patterns of all the girls' skirts are so fantastic!


I'm currently obsessed with red and pink as a color combination, and my current projects reflect that ... I am actively working on two things right now (and trying very hard not to start a third!)... one is a raspberry colored choli with a removeable flounce. That way, it will match my flounce skirt that I made months and months ago, but I can also wear it with other costumes. The flounce skirt is a deeper raspberry color, with the same sheer fabric as the flounce on this choli. The combination of colors should make for a great costume.

Also, I'm making this darling little swirl hat. After making 10 or so crocheted hats for selling at the shop (and a bunch have sold! Yay!), I decided it was time to knit again, and to make something to keep. I'm just in love with this color combination of pink orange and red, and the cotton yarn feels really soft and cozy. I'm excited about the swirl pattern, as well and am contemplating making this hat very long and pointy, just for fun and to accentuate that swirlyness. We'll see about that... It may be a really lame idea.