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Doors in spider skirts and other pics
Oct 24, 2009
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Thank you. A fun project, despite the time constraints.
Kind of organic but structured... Like a starfish or a jellyfish with a skeleton, if you see what I mean.
This was in the foyer of the building. The achitects office is there, and the building also houses some adult studies stuff, a wine bar, and a studio theatre. The view from above was taken through a hole in the wine bar floor: this is not quite a mezenine floor, as there are these two round holes (the other one is much smaller). The outside of the building is like a whole series of stacked up white enameled cheesegraters! :D
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Thanks. :)
The buttons are purely decorative, to break up the outside. The ties are solidly sewn on by machine.
Well, I suppose the frock bit was my design. It was amusing to do, if hard work.
Today I get to start on No. 3 - But there's a tiny frock to complete first! :D
Them's the ones! I knew they had to have a 'proper' name...
They also reminded me of various fabric roofed buildings, such as the designer outlet in Ashford:
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is actually suspended rather than proped up from inside:>
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other things that came to mind are pop-up kid's play tents. :) And thank you. I'm too close and see the faults, but the third one will be better!
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> Which is actually suspended rather than proped up from inside:>>
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> The other things that came to mind are pop-up kid's play tents. :) >> And thank you. I'm too close and see the faults, but the third one will > be better! Uh, where did I point out a fault? Was it the Royal Palace that gave you the idea? I mean, OK, taste is in the eye of the beholder in that special case, and Beau Brummel's influence obviously didn't carry far enough, but now it's knighted by age and history, so there. I like the way the fabric falls somewhat naturally, because otherwise I'd find those things a bit scary. Like UFOs... (Did I tell you that they wanted to build a giant UFO for a new Dortmund central station? Fortunatley for Dortmund, the financing didn't work out.)
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> Which is actually suspended rather than proped up from inside:>>>
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> The other things that came to mind are pop-up kid's play tents. :)>>>> And thank you. I'm too close and see the faults, but the third one will >> be better!>
Oh, no implication that YOU were finding faults. It's ME that's just seeing them!
The fabric is lovely... But I seem to be missing a panel right now! AAARRRGGGHHH!
I figured they were machine sewn, too, but the buttons could easily have been positioned over the ties to add some strength if needed.
The tiny frock is darling! Lucky Ursula and Christine. ;-)
That's exactly what I thought of when I saw the finished product. Very cool!
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:16:55 +0100 in alt.sewing, Kate XXXXXX wrote,
OK, now I get it. When we made a spider, I didn't sew a skirt but instead leggings.
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Oh, that's a LOT of fun! :D
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