For those of us sewists lucky enough to be located in Madison, WI, we now have a great wearable artist/quilter in our midst. Lorraine Torrence, formerly of Seattle, WA has relocated to Madison and is now teaching at Gayfeather Fabrics on Willy St. in Madison. I am enrolled in one of her classes entitled Creative Clothing and am keeping track of the projects I have made for this session.
Our first assignment was to repurpose a ready-to-wear garment. I chose this black Flax brand linen jacket that had been hanging in my closet for far too long. This jacket had many interesting design features which went unnoticed.
I chose to accent the lower pockets in the peplum with white linen fabric and added stacked buttons to the center front, alongside the front flange. I didn't care for the collar so I constructed a new neckpiece over the old one and accented the sleeves and center back with more of the white linen fabric.
One thing Lorraine impressed upon us was to always put something in the back of the garment that
relates to the front to pull the design together.
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