fun with silk & vintage lace

I’m having some fun today, just playing with softer fabrics like the striped crinkle silk pictured and thinking about using vintage lace for trimming.  It’s really a different experience to work with such soft fabrics, as usually I’m trying to create stiffer structures and need fabric with lots of body to hold the shapes I’m going for.  But I’m wanting a dreamier, softer, more romantic feel for the styles I’m working on now and I do have some lovely silks and really soft cotton seersuckers in my fabric stash that have been begging to be used.  Did I ever tell you that I never use interfacing with my fabrics?  No?  Well, it’s true.  I just hate the stuff, whether it’s iron-on or sew-in.  Could be from all those years making costumes where it felt like you always had to fight with the fabric and everything had to wear like iron to stand up to the rough-and-tumble backstage world.  I hate fighting with fabric (or anything for that matter).  I really work to allow the fabric and the seaming to combine and naturally do what they want to do, real peaceful like.  That way, nobody gets hurt.

Hope you’re having a peaceful weekend too.