Skirt construction

At the moment I am working on the construction of my skirt which I designed about two weeks ago.
The theme is jellyfish and I have tried to incorparate the lightness and transparency of a jellyfish throughout the skirt.
The skirt is a circle skirt/skater skirt in shape .
 It is made from organza and an irridescent type of plastic.
I have spent the last two days embroidering the organza with black jellyfish using the free hand machine foot.

Organza underskirt

The start of the front of the skirt

My circle skirt pattern

Imagery for front of sketchbook

I made a recent trip to Christ Church Cathedral in my home town city of Dublin.
I took some beautiful images of the stained glass inside the building which was spectacular.
The color scheme I chose was deep burgundy red and brown.
The red in the stained glass windows was so deep almost the color of blood which I found to be really fitting to the project.
I used the image of the stained glass window as part of the front cover on my sketchbook.

I also came across a red velvet chair in the church which I took a picture of as I thought the colour was also very matching. I also like the texture of the chair as it looks like quilting a technique which I used in this project and in my final 8!!

Fabric boards

Machine embroidery circles on lining and tulle

Satin printed with muslin and covered in organza

Printing stitched with fabric underlay also weaving with organza bows

Quilting with wadding satin and organza

Muslin organza and satin layered then cut into to reveal organza

Thumbnail drawings

These are some of my thumbnail drawings from the textiles project. They were drawn from different weights and textures of fabric on the stand

Ink and marker

Paint and ink

Watercolors and ink

Fabric Manipulation

This project was all about fabric manipulation and creating our own fabrics using the sewing machine , embroidery , hand stitched techniques dying and printing.

Setting up for assessment

Images of knitwear samples , notebook, knit piece etc for assessment

Manipulating shapes in fabric

The shapes from brown paper were then transalted into three different weights of fabric.
Light - Tulle
Medium- Calico
Heavy- Oil cloth

The result was very different compared to the paper.
Tulle was stiff which was nice as I could create structured designs with it.
Calico draped nicely
and the oil cloth was my favourite as it had the most structure which I like the best.

Images of fabric on stand