The story of a skirt - p1

Last November, I had the amazing opportunity to go to Alabama Chanin's studio and factory for a week. While I was there, several projects were cut and stenciled. The first one that has made it to my sewing needles. It is slow going, but the beautiful progress is completely worth all the time.

Starting with the hand stitching with button craft thread.

Then there is the beading...

 

As a full panel...

Moving to the embroidery...

And this is just half of the first panel. There will be more updates as the skirt progresses.