Wow, this is a terrific dress! When you said childhood bedsheet, I didn't know what to expect... this is incredibly fun. :)

What stunning pieces! Just beautiful.

What a cute dress! I love the stripes and the ruffles. :)

My boyfriend is the fountain pen collector I'd made this for. He has a number of pens he's gotten over the last few years (primarily fairly inexpensive ones), including a couple by Lamy, a couple by Pelikan, and a vintage Parker 51 that I managed to get him on Ebay for a pretty good price...

Ooh, I like the zig-zag stitch idea. I'd patched one worn pair by pinning denim to the inside then sewing around the patch and a few times across it, but using a zig-zag would actually capture the old threads rather than just having them loose over the new patch. Thank you!

A beautiful piece! I love the detail of putting the pretty sheet border at the bottom of the dress. Definitely makes it feel that the fabric was printed for this outfit, rather than repurposed...I'll have to look out for sheets with borders now.

My degree will be in Media Arts and Sciences...though that's kind of a catch-all term, as there's a ton of different kinds of work being done by various research groups that are part of the program. In my research, I'm mostly working on wearable items with electronic sensors that can pick up performer gesture and use that to inform music in some way. For a concrete example, one of my recent projects just got written up at http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/06/22/maker-faire-music-vamp-and-glove-controlled-vocals/. It's not the best video (so noisy at Maker Faire!), but basically this shows a glove a singer can wear that lets her "grab," extend, and manipulate a note she sings, so she can accompany herself. It's fun stuff, if kind of crazy.