The
Ringmaster's
Wife
Wearable art garment
2003

Featured in Bernina Fashion Show of Wearable Art.

She opens the coat to reveal knife-throwing targets. Her husband is a good shot... but she only trusts him if she can wear her organza blindfold!

The collar edge was stitched over and over with threads onto a Super Solvy base (water soluble stabiliser). The coat is adapted from Bloomsbury Garden, in mixed fuschia fabrics quilted on to Fairfield Cotton Classic batting.

Birds in jewelled birdcages. Acrylic jewels glued on with Jewel-It glue. A plain heavy reddish zigzag stitch goes down the front and around the whole coat's edge.

This technique is from the Rosemary Eichorn book The Art Of Fabric Collage by Taunton.