Today I have been preparing lots of old/discarded clothes ready to make another life-size figure.
I love it when the seasons change as it means that I get a whole new influx of materials to work with as the children grow out of things or they are just too scruffy to keep. It’s like shopping without the shopping. My children get quite cross when I start to covert a pair of jeans they are wearing with a hole in the knee – I feel like a vulture circling.
This afternoon taking the lining out of a coat – pulling the sleeve outer bit off the padded inner felt just as if I were skinning a rabbit (not that I have ever skinned an actual rabbit) but it felt incredibly old fashioned and frugal as I separated all the important bits – labels, pockets, zip, worn areas, away from the pristine fabric. Each ‘treasure’ then goes into a separate pile in my (size diminishing) studio ready for whenever the time is right. And for the pile of green clothing in the corner – today is your lucky day…..
