Showing posts with label Alpha Xi Delta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alpha Xi Delta. Show all posts

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Thyme I

















I'm a decent needleworker but only a so-so-at-best computer geek. My fellow Tartans would be appalled as our school is fairly well known in the computer world. In fact, I just recently discovered that it was at Carnegie Mellon where the sideways smiley :) evolved. This was back in the days when we had bboards and computer labs instead of PCs or gigantic mainframes with cards. In any case, I am not so great at formatting these posts but I will keep plugging along and hopefully I will get better. Thyme marches on....

The Thyme is a tote bag that uses both the back and front of the uniform. This Thyme was made for a Coast Guard wife who incorporated the colors of her sorority by selecting two shades of blue (and yellow) for her coordinating fabric. With the additional yellows and the blues, this color choice would be ideal not only for sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma (ΚΚΓ) but also members of Alpha Xi Delta or Sigma Gamma Rho. The recipient opted for an exterior side pocket so she could put a water bottle in it.


BDU shirts have 4 patch pockets with flap closures. My designs always use the two breast pockets on the exteriors of the Thyme, Marjoram and Pansy and I use the lower pockets in the interior of the bag. Since the Coast Guard utility uniform only has 2 pockets instead of 4 like the DOD service uniforms, I made interior pockets from the patches on the arms which I am assuming are there for reinforcement.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Lavender I

The Lavender is a lapsize quilt that uses either 12 or 16 shirts to make a 3 by 4 or 4 by 4 grid of blocks. This particular Lavender was designed for a woman involved in many areas of campus life ranging from musical performance to cheerleading to sorority life. Her sorority colors are double blue and gold which are the colors of the sashing fabric. Her mascot is a bear which you can see all over the backing fabric.

This Lavender actually used 9 shirts but we designed 12 blocks as the client wanted to incorporate the mini designs from the front of the shirts as well as the large designs on the back.