Vezenje

Spet je jesen – poleg začetka šole pomeni tudi prehod na opravo, bolj kompleksno od ležerne poletne – najtanjše majice iz lanenega jerseya in udobnih kratkih hlač. Čas je za žabe (ki sem jih v prejšnjih letih spet začela nositi), te izgledajo fino tako pod krili, oblekami kot tudi kratkimi hlačami. Za to priložnost sem si naredila jesensko trenč-obleko, kroj sem našla v septembrski Burdi (ki je presenetila z nekaj čisto nosljivimi kosi). Glede na to, da je enobarvna, sem se odločila izvesti nekaj detajlov na ovratnik in manšete. Začenjam se navduševati nad sodobno uporabo vezenja!

Transition from summer to fall brings new ways to assemble your outfits, not just plain airy t-shirts and shorts I was used to wearing in the summer. It is also time of tights, not only with skirts and dresses, but also with shorts. To add a new autumn piece to my wardrobe (I could wear with tights) I made myself a trench-dress. I found the pattern in the september issue of Burda (which surprisingly has some pretty wearable pieces this time). Since the dress is monochrome, I decided to add a little detail with ebmroidery on the collar and cuffs. Im getting really into modern embroidery!

Tokrat ne bom šla v detajle o šivanju, ampak bom rajši malo bolj na široko razpredala o vezenju. Ker je to precej dolgotrajno in natančno opravilo, sem si zelo tehnično naredila načrt, pripravila več vzorcev in se spravila k delu. Nekje na pol poti prve variante sem ugotovila, da vse skupaj izgleda preveč podobno osnovnošolskemu projektu, zato sem pobrala prejice ven in začela znova. Seveda sem si izbrala bolj geometričen motiv, (ker se mi je zdelo da bo lažje), izvezla pol ovratnika in ga spet razdrla. Potem sem začela kar brez načrta vesti pikice po celem ovratniku in dodala dve vintage puščici ob zapiranju. Bilo je kul in tako sem porabila 3 ure vezenja za 5-minutni motiv. Nato sem na načrt prerisala končno varianto, da ni šlo risanje milijona črtic v ilustratorju v nič.

This time I will not bore you with the construction method for the dress, but will go more into detail on embroidery. Because I knew it takes a long time to complete one, I smartly planned ahead and prepared a few motives I could try on the collar. After deciding which one was best I started working. In an hour it looked way to similar to a very bad school project, so I decided to make it easier, more geometric. Again, it looked pretty bad. So I was a bit pissed and started making little bals just randomly on the collar and after seeing it looks quite nice, I added two vintage tack arrows to complete the look. It took 3 hours, when it should take 5 minutes, but was still worth the effort. And because I didn’t want my plans to go to waste I made the final version in Illustrator so I can show you the failed versions.

Pripravila sem nekakšen postopek vezenja puščice, ki se je včasih uporabljala za ojačitev izrezov za žepe, preden so izumili fliselin. Moja uporaba puščice sicer ni povsem na mestu, ampak se mi je zdel lep motiv za začetnika. Prav tako naj bi se na spodnjih fotografijah videlo, kako narediti pikico. Bilo je že precej temno in kvaliteta ni najboljša (brez skrbi, sem bla že grajana – ne bo več ponovilo, obljubim). Pikice sem izvezla še na manjšetah, tretjo puščico pa na hrbtu.

I have drawn three schemes, so you can see how to make the arrow tack. It was originally used to reinforce garment openings, such as pockets, so you can see I have not used them propperly. But they still look nice. There are also some photos on how to make the little dots. I hope the bad quality is not too distracting, it was pretty dark when I shot them (and I have been scorned on that behalf, so it will not happen again). I also embroidered the dots on the cufs and the tack on the back.

Še to moram povedati, da je ta indigo bombaž, ki sem ga uporabila za obleko izjemno težko fotografirati – vsakič je drugačnega odtenka, ali pa se vidijo RGB mavrice. Mogoče je pa to tista elektična modra, ki zmede vse kamere in jo nosi mr. Bigend v Zero History.

To say something about the weird colors in the photos: this indigo cotton I have used to make the dress is a pain to capture in a photograph. It just turns into these weird shades or produces rgb rainbows on the screen, something similar to what Mr.Bigend from Zero History is sporting.