I have on more pirate that I am trying to finish up, but this fellow jumped the queue.
I’m not sure what era these skeleton fashions are from- maybe Georgian?
I am being distracted by my little garden these days. It is nice to be outside and mess with the dirt!
He is #4 of the bunch.
He doesn’t have a hat. I just couldn’t bear to cover up his glorious hair.
More skeleton tattoos-
No beard and no mustache either!
He looks pretty grumpy.
He has an awesome pirate-y button on his belt.
I like the hat but his hair is pretty good too :-)
Stormy blue eyes. Another antique button.
I will tell you- it has been a challenge, figuring out how to put this fellow together. He is a very fancy pirate.
An antique button on his belt.
His hair in detail-
Fish pillow number 12 and the that’s enough fish pillows for now.
The purple body fabric was some more of the wool I took home from the free table at the rug hooking store. It had been a skirt once. Onto the next thing. Right now I am doing prep work- cutting and doing the machine sewing. It is always the best to have a bin-full of ready to go projects!
Their heads and tails- one fish has dark red, the other dark green.
The bottom fish is made from a beautiful vintage textured wool. The top fish sports a gorgeous wool plaid. Both fabrics were gifted to me- how lucky am I?!
The head and tail are a dark green boiled wool- so knit and kind of bumpy.
Dark red and orange to match colors in the plaid.
This next one is made from an old, moth-eaten Hudson Bay blanket. It needed a new life.
My computer doesn’t believe that houndstooth is a word, but really, it is!
And here are 3 fish with houndstooth weave wool.
This one looks like zigzag from a distance but close-up, you can see the houndstooth pattern.
This one is dark green and white- it is very soft so it is probably woven cashmere or maybe an angora blend, but I’m not sure. I bought some lengths of it at an estate sale of a fashion seamstress. In the house, I thought it was black and white!
And here they are, hanging out at the pool.
Two light colored fish. I remember exactly where I got the body fabrics- The top fish is an awesome coat fabric. I went to a fiber swap and someone had brought a vintage (70’s?) coat. I took that home! The white textured weave fabric I picked up in Northampton, MA after I did a show there. I went to a shop that sold supplies for rug-hooking. It had just changed ownership. The new owner put out a pile of free wool fabrics. Why yes, I did grab a bagful. That fabric was probably never going to work for rug hooking but it is good for me!
