I Love Lace

kindnesses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mixed fabrics (cotton, linen, synth blends: hand-dyed, over-dyed, commercial); machine and hand-pieced, hand quilted, hand appliqued.)

My final for the first year of my fashion and textile course :] fossils cardigan featuring living fossils like coelacanth and lots of dinosaur bones. Big love letter to palaeontology and natural history. Got super into my knitting machine but I wasn’t very adept with it yet so I sort of crocheted around the edges of my pieces and sewed them all together, and crocheted some edges/ribbing. The buttons are handmade from polymer clay. Used some second hand gold yarn I found in a charity shop and a whole bunch of mixed variegated wool together. My most ambitious project yet I completely just did not speak to people for that final month I was working on this 😭

Some close ups:

And my watercolour paintings this piece was based on:

Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)

beaded lobster earrings 🦞✨hand stitched with vintage & salvaged beads and rhinestones

Collected from webs of the Joro spider, a type of golden orb weaver. Yes, it's naturally that golden

This is from the support threads, not washed at all. The sticky inner web wasn't used, as it's goopy and full of debris. The support threads are also the longest and the strongest, so i can pluck off 1-2ft sections at a time (usually combining a few separate strands into one thread)

And some photos of the back + the hoop contraption, made with spare parts:

There is a small tangle in your yarn. Topologically you know it must be a slipknot; if you give it a good firm tug, it should come undone.

Size 3, size 10, size 70, size 140/2