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\"horse,<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m jolly pleased with my horse dress; the result of my latest adventure in home sewing. It’s a variation of the first dress I ever made<\/a> (a shift style sewn from my dragonfly fabric<\/a>) and since I mastered the use of bias binding on that project I decided to make an external feature of it this time; embellishing it with contrasting stitching. <\/p>\n

\"horse,<\/p>\n

\"horse,The horse motif was inspired by the extraordinarily beautiful hand painted artwork I saw when Carter’s Steam Fair<\/a> visited Maldon in Essex.<\/p>\n

I made a pencil drawing (left) using my photos for reference, taking a morbid turn by adding the skeleton of the horse as part of the decoration.\"skeleton,<\/a><\/p>\n

I vectorised the drawing in Illustrator, used Photoshop to colour it and make the repeat pattern<\/a>, which I then had printed onto a light cotton by the lovely folk at Woven Monkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"horse,<\/a>\"horse,<\/a><\/p>\n

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The dress feels lovely on, here’s me posing about in it on my 50th birthday.<\/p>\n

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Could it possibly be said that I’m flogging a dead horse? You bet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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