Nightie

I made myself a nightie out of an old shirt and some extra jersey. I spent some time making strips of fabric into a braid pattern. I used a yoga bolster to pin before I sewed onto the hem. It's a roughly done nightie, made to look deconstructed, but it's super comfy.

I used the dress form to figure out how to fit it to my body. One change I'd make is the straps, made from braiding strips of the old t-shirt, I'd add some stiffer cord or woven straps to keep them from sagging after wearing.

Hem, in the making

Finished garmet.

Crash Data Mod Dress

Currently, I'm in a course in which I'm learning R, a statistically programing language used to analyze and interpret data. It's rad. For data junkies and graphic nerds, it's like a big jigsaw puzzle that ends in art truly representing the real world.

After viewing numerous graphic examples during one of the lecture, Dr. Monsere introduced me to the following plot of transportation collision data, charting the type of graph (y-axis) by the function class of the road (x-axis, meaning rural or urban, collector and arterial, etc).

Cut to two weeks later: 2:30AM, waking up from an interesting dream in which I don this plot in the form of a mod dress. Or a mod dress COVERED in this print. The best example of the dress I'm thinking of, is as seen below and here.

HOW MS. FRIZZLE IS THAT!?

Game Plan:

Get fabric printed

Wrap myself in cellophane and get somebody to cover myself in duck tape (DONE)

Find pattern

Make dress

Rock out the Frizzle in me