Win A Piece Of The Empress Dowager's New Jewels!

#6 - Cascading Tiger's Eye is up for grabs!






















All you need to do is head over to page 72 of Pocketto, a fabulous online fashion magazine created by Dreamer of AusStyle, and answer a very simple question before June 10!

Good luck!

PS. Oh, the winner has to accede to my usual tiny request - please send me a photo of you wearing the necklace (with your head cropped out if you wish to remain anonymous). Go on, play along with me! xx

Cascading Tiger's Eye

#6 in the trinket chest. First piece in the Cascade setting which is kind of inspired by Frank Gehry.

I was looking at this piece of Marimekko fabric and weirdly felt compelled to use only the mustard and black squiggly bits in the middle. Weird because I'm not usually drawn to things with too much black in them but I like how there is a fucked-up "flow" of lines? And I wanted to make a piece that went with the "flow"?

Anyway, when I finally got down to cutting out the pieces of "Tiger's eye", a re-run of Sketches of Frank Gehry was on TV and I thought, "Ooooh, the squiggles sure remind me of his drawings and amazing buildings!". I wasn't paying much attention because I've seen the documentary before but one bit got me - he was talking about how, for a certain new building, he needed it to flow(!) with the old historic ones that are situated around it. In the loopy way that my head works, the Cascade setting was born.

I have not decided what I'm going to do with it, as in give it away, keep it or try to flog it. My indecision lies in the availability, or more like the non-availability, of the fabric - I can't seem to find it on the Marimekko website so that means that they are not printing it anymore which makes Cascading Tiger's Eye a one-off. Well, all the pieces from The Empress Dowager's New Jewels are one-offs anyway - even if I use the same print for two different pieces, they'll never look the same. But I can't keep all of them, can I?