Buena Suerte (Tiger Jumpsuit)
Hand-Embroidered Garment

A bespoke jumpsuit I created featuring tiger patches that I designed and embroidered by hand.

Role: Designer, Embroiderer

A Regal Garment

I was inspired by a museum exhibit on regal clothing to make myself a royal garment: something that, like the clothes of kings of old, would show off how awesome I am. (The museum exhibit put it a bit more eloquently). Tigers are one of my favorite animals to draw, so I decided to translate them into embroidery.

Buena Suerte

“Buena Suerte” means good luck in Spanish, my second language. I worked with the theme of good luck, particularly with a wild west saloon kind of vibe–a nod to my hailing from, and love for, the American Southwest.

Process

From sketch to pattern! I started this project thinking I’d paint the patches, doodling my favorite animals in different colors. Once I realized embroidery would be cooler (and more durable), I switched to a black-and-white color scheme.

I enlarged the drawings onto parchment paper, then used a lightbox to trace them onto fabric for embroidering.

This was three months of my life. I sewed all of the patches by hand with an embroidery hoop, then sewed them onto my jumpsuit.

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