Carnival 2012

Carnival is coming early this year (for me anyway - it's actually only in March) and the theme is CAPTAIN AMERICA!  Seems mad to be working on this in the middle of summer, but I'm going 'home' to South Africa for Christmas, so I won't have the winter holidays to work on everything.   There are about 60 people in the group I usually do - so I'm starting off by drafting a range of men's / women's / children's sizes.  This is the women's design (using lycra foil).

'Designs' page

I've posted some old designs taken from my portfolio here.  Here's a peek:

 

The watermark is from my old website, which I no longer use.  Everything's over here now and a lot more user-friendly :)  Go Blogger!

New fabric: 'BLOOM'

How super excited am I with my new fabric design! It's based on this piece I did last week

The end result is:

The pattern has turned out perfectly - it even has a bit of an optical illusion thing going on, which is fun - now I just have to design something really great to make with it. If you love the fabric as much as I do, it'll be available to buy from Spoonflower soon- you can preorder on the link above.

Carnival

Carnival is a way of life here. Every year, around February or March (depending when Lent falls) everyone lets their hair down, forgets their problems and parties for 3 days solid. I don't get dressed up myself, but love the atmosphere and have designed and made costumes (to measure) for years now. Click on the Carnival Costumes button in the toolbar to see pics.