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2015 Topic 18: Wearable Art Hi everyone Darcy here to introduce a new topic for the blog: Wearable Art. Are you a bit puzzled? just what is wearable art? We are more than use to working on canvasses, boards, paper and card and even on fabric: these have come to be regular substrates for us. Mostly we work flat, occasionally we transform our creations into 3D objects, but their sole purpose is generally decorative. This challenge aims to take your creativity out of your craft rooms and into…

2 posts published by designsbyheidi during November 2021

As I sit and wonder what to write about I quickly pull ideas out of my near empty coffee cup. Discarding them almost immediately as too lame, stupid, repetitive, uninteresting. Should I show you the mile high apple pie that...

A creative guide into the world of dried flower embroidery. In the first part of the book I discuss my tools and techniques and my favourite flowers for creating with. Then I’ve put together step-by-step guides to enable you to create 15 projects, from hoops for display to homewares and wearables.

After spending a couple of hours surfing the net looking for inspirational and unusual designers/artists I finally found one that took my breath away. The amount of work that has gone into her costumes is incredible. She uses a lot of wire work which you can't notice from afar, but once you see the bodices up close its amazing that amount of precision is possible. Seeing these just make me want to get the pliers and copper wire out and give it a go. I imagine it will take a few years of…