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Thursday, 17 June 2010

two white dresses

These two dresses were made with letters that my dad sent to me.  I had photocopied them and glued them with a piece of fabric as backing and carefully cut them into strips, then machined stitched them on the white dresses.  Apart from the machine stitching,  Black threads were deliberately left hanging on the the dresses as though they were my thoughts.  I had also added hand embroidery and a mixed of white fabrics to give a feel of lightness to the ideas of  "thoughtfulness" and wishes to my dad...