
Dress #27 "I can be up, down, looped or in a hole at any given time."
Buttons that do "work".
-1 shoulder pad
-handful of quilt batting
- inserted plaid fabric from summer camp scout neckerchiefs 200_
-tie-dyed shirt used on a flamingo for Rockin’ the Tropics summer camp theme 200_
-skirt plaid fabric from cushions made for children’s playroom (now my home studio space) 1996
-thread, copper phone wire, armature wire, florist wire
-oval wood picture frame from the 1930’s that held my Grandmother’s college graduation photo
-waistband from my son’s senior year band dance gag gift from the senior girls
-3 zippers that have been hanging around for over 15 years if not longer
-1386 buttons!! (from old sewing kits, discarded shirts, old clothing, craft bucket leftovers, novelty ones from past projects, and so forth…..) collected since the 1970’s and stored in my sewing box
No stand used
Nametag: 1986 Horne’s Employee Discount Card, expiring the last day I worked for them. We moved to Rocky River in July of 1986 and I started teaching at Bay High school the next month.
The challenge of this dress was to have the buttons remain accessible in case I need one. The phone wire allows me to cut and remove any button and then splice the line back together. There is a logical pattern and arrangement to the buttons. On the back, small ones transition in color, on the hem, larger buttons do the same or are grouped by color family. Each hem drop has a metal button on the bottom. Larger novelty ones surround the waist transition to help hold the weight of the skirt and smaller novelty buttons are on the elastic waistband that also takes some weight off the shirt itself. The two zippers on the collar hold two or four hole shirt buttons. Shank buttons are loosely held by phone wires as well because they are the hardest ones to sew on.
-1 shoulder pad
-handful of quilt batting
- inserted plaid fabric from summer camp scout neckerchiefs 200_
-tie-dyed shirt used on a flamingo for Rockin’ the Tropics summer camp theme 200_
-skirt plaid fabric from cushions made for children’s playroom (now my home studio space) 1996
-thread, copper phone wire, armature wire, florist wire
-oval wood picture frame from the 1930’s that held my Grandmother’s college graduation photo
-waistband from my son’s senior year band dance gag gift from the senior girls
-3 zippers that have been hanging around for over 15 years if not longer
-1386 buttons!! (from old sewing kits, discarded shirts, old clothing, craft bucket leftovers, novelty ones from past projects, and so forth…..) collected since the 1970’s and stored in my sewing box
No stand used
Nametag: 1986 Horne’s Employee Discount Card, expiring the last day I worked for them. We moved to Rocky River in July of 1986 and I started teaching at Bay High school the next month.
The challenge of this dress was to have the buttons remain accessible in case I need one. The phone wire allows me to cut and remove any button and then splice the line back together. There is a logical pattern and arrangement to the buttons. On the back, small ones transition in color, on the hem, larger buttons do the same or are grouped by color family. Each hem drop has a metal button on the bottom. Larger novelty ones surround the waist transition to help hold the weight of the skirt and smaller novelty buttons are on the elastic waistband that also takes some weight off the shirt itself. The two zippers on the collar hold two or four hole shirt buttons. Shank buttons are loosely held by phone wires as well because they are the hardest ones to sew on.