Here's the other side of the collar. Now that the collar is finished I can start to work on the sleeves.
Visible mending using scraps of Japanese cotton
block printed cotton using clay resist and indigo dye used in visible mending repair
Stitch a Day 2017, Day 61
Having finished the back and most of the front I've moved onto the collar which I've patched with scraps of clay-resist printed cotton that's been indigo dyed. There's also a small scrap of a handwoven cotton I picked in one of the water towns near Shanghai and a few other random bits that filled in the small spaces.
Bits of linen and cotton, shibori dyed and block printed stitched to patch an old jacket in the boro style
Stitch a Day 2017, Day 38
I found on old color card from years ago that had little 1" x 2" swatches that are perfect to fill in the tiny little areas that pop up around pockets. They're too small to effectively turn under the edges, so I'm stitching them on flat. I figure they'll be sufficiently stitched through to eliminate them coming away at the edges.
adding a bit of color for day 9 of the 2017 Stitch A Day Challenge
Stitch A Day, 2017: Day 9
Everything was looking too much the same, so today I found a couple of scraps with more color. On the lower right is a piece of fabric I'd block printed on years ago. It was awfully muddy and drab, so like just about everything in my life that is white, cream or natural, it had a couple of dips in the indigo vat. To my eye, everything looks better after it's met indigo! I'm constantly amazed that no matter what I throw in the vat, it comes out looking better.