tesseract skirt: pucker bunch

Quilted red and orange shirt. Multi-colored top-stitching. Zipper closure in back.

MEASUREMENTS:
HIPS: 42"
WAIST: 34"
LENGTH: 18"

about the collection:

Since COVID, when I reconnected with my sewing practice, I have generated about 70 pounds of off-cuts from my projects. I have been collecting these off-cuts for five years, along with ephemera from friends, family, and lovers. The collection features quilted garments from these scraps, with a few supplemental pieced garments that fill out the collection and its themes. To craft the garments, I lay the scraps on top of garments that are too damaged to be swapped or sold and stitch them down, creating one-of-a-kind quilted, wearable textiles. The process itself allowed me to slow down, to connect with my body and intuition in a period of my life that felt swallowingly cerebral. Pseudo-archival in nature, the pieces feel like a mix between quilt and scrapbook. Each material contains memories of every hand that touched them before. The garments mimic the style of my own closely-held 'junk' journals: journals that have been my companions since I learned to book bind with a dear friend in 2022.