The Garden Plot 17: Don't get too comfy

Garden Plot 16: Spoiled Tomato Babies

Hairshirt / Wandering in the Desert

I just finished making a hairshirt... something I started a few years ago (see previous process post).
It's the first finished piece in the Wardrobe for Paradise project.


Hairshirt / Wandering in the Desert

Hairshirt (Work in Progress)

Here's the process for my Hairshirt, the first piece in the Wardrobe for Paradise series:

This is how it began a few years ago (yep, a few years). It was something of a drawing/painting using my hair, handstitched between 2 layers of tulle. I was thinking of aerials and meandering.


a (fuzzy) detail


and some cufflinks coiled from dreadlocks of my own hair (I decided not to use these)


front view on Freida the dressform


back view

The Garden Plot 15: Growth Spurt