Battle Skirt

This was an interesting commission. The player had recently gotten custom armor, and he wanted a battle skirt to match it. The LARP he plays has a rule that all armor must be visible to count, so the skirt needed to be something that would show off the leg armor underneath. 

The design is based off of a video game (I don't know which). He wanted the skirt to be random as far as the circular designs and the width of the individual panels.

This is the sketch we settled on, though he wanted the black in front and back rather than the every other as shown here.

This was my first time using the reverse applique technique. All the gold pieces are done in the traditional manner where one cuts out a shape, glues it to the background and then stitches around the edge. In reverse applique, one draws the design, sews through both layers and then cuts the single top layer as close to the stitching as possible.

The back of the reverse applique ends up being very colorful. Since this will show while he fights, I worked to make the back as clean as the front.

This was a very interesting project. I may try reverse applique again, and I may try combining it with an applique lace technique where you cut both layers.