Thinking in Fabric

I hurt my back today doing godknowswhat so I've been sitting perfectly still, and not working for the last five or six hours.

Since I can't work on my current projects (all six or seven of them), I will share some experimental draping I did during the shirt project. I just threw some fabric on the stand and had my way with it, sketching each shape until I eventually came to the final idea that would become my shirt a few days later.

So, here are some thoughts of mine, expressed via fabric and pins one dreary afternoon in London:

All of which finally culminated in:



And finally in: