Henna tattoo

A week ago a Moroccan friend of mine celebrated her birthday. Besides all the delicious dishes she offered to make henna tattoos so of course I had to get one.
See here the result!

Jewelry loves

I never used to wear much jewelry but I really start to appreciate the way it can upgrade a simple outfit.
Here my recent favorites.

1. bracelet - h&m
2. watch - LIV
3. necklace - h&m

Back to blogging!

Hello my dear readers, it's been a while!

The past weeks I discovered that blogging and graduating do not go together very well unfortunately...
I had to focus on my graduation project which I think paid off :) I will show you the result soon!
So now it's back to blogging as I finally handed in my last deliverable today!
Can't wait to start a great summer, if only the weather would agree with me..

 

Barbie got a new dress

Some months ago a friend told me about a design competition held by the Groninger Museum for which you had to design a dress for Barbie inspired by fashion designers Azzedine Alaia or Iris van Herpen, whos collections are exhibited at the museum at the moment. Being a fan of fashion design and loving detailed work, this competition was perfect for me and I decided to submit. As you could read in previous posts (here and here), I went to the museum to see the exhibition and to get inspired. I chose Iris van Herpen as my inspiration. Her designs combine traditional craftmanship and unconventional materials, resulting in beautiful pieces.

For my dress I decided to use a traditional craft that I recently learned, bobbin lace making!

My initial idea was to make lace with metal wire but after trying it, it didn't work out the way I wanted. The metal was too stiff so bending the wires was hard and made the structure too open.

I decided to use normal offwhite thread and combined it with metal wires. I drew an outline of the pattern of the dress and used it as the base of my bobbin lace. In order to create the lace structure that I wanted I had to use 60 bobbins! The most I ever used for one piece. You can imagine that winding and hanging the bobbins was a lot of work.

I used different patters creating closed and open structures and incorporated pieces of wire.

Next I sewed the piece together on the back and shaped the dress around the Barbie. Finally I used a lot of hairspray to fix the threads and hold the dress in place. 

Et voila! see here the final result :)

Bobbin lace making #2 // project

Finally, as promised, an update on my bobbin lace project!
As you could read in my previous project post, I started bobbin lace making.
Since then I have had more lessons and finished my first pieces!
So see here some of my results and the start of some new pieces.

 The snake!