The jacket I’m making for Gordian Knot: I may have overextended myself on it, since I found and downloaded a free John Galliano pattern. 3 pages of A0 paper covered in bizarre shapes most of which bore little resemblance to anything I recognised as parts of an item of clothing.
I cut out each and every one of them over the course of two hours round at Bryn’s house. Every time he saw me sitting on the floor, surrounded by mutant strips of paper, he started laughing.
Started trying to assemble the thing last weekend by trying to work out how it all fitted together. I lost Joker’s sympathy when he found out that it didn’t come with any instructions, and quickly realised that this was not a sewing pattern. It was a jigsaw puzzle straight out of the heart of Rl’yeh, designed to bring on a psychotic episode. At that point, I changed tack, and decided to use only the 3 pieces (of you don’t want to know how many bits) I recognised, and fudge the rest together.
And it actually looks halfway decent, though isn’t finished yet. Two lots of sari offcuts, plus denim and blue satin. With Renaissancey sleeves!
But those mutant jigsaw pieces are still looking at me from the corner of the room, silently mocking me.
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