Morse pockets

Buttonholes in silk thread, worked as a morse code message on a linen pocket sample

Bound pockets

 I've been considering pockets, what we keep in them, where they are placed, how we feel when we hide our hands in them. Pockets as a receptacle, as a fashion feature, as a bag. This led me to the bound pocket, and the nature of bindings. 'Bound' has many meanings to confine, restrict or limit, and conversely to leap forward or head towards. Here are 3 of my bound pockets 

my 'hair shirt' is embroidered on to bias binding and trimmed on to a jeans style pocket

again using embroidered bias binding this time it is edging, binding an inseam pocket

this is one of my favorites, the inseam pocket has been stitched as usual, but the binding has been wound around a hand in the pocket afterwards, thus restricting the use