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

 

 

 

Knitwear

On the Tuesday we had Liz for knitwear. We learn't many new techniques such as fringing , tassles, how to make fancy yarn , multi yarn , pom poms. how to knit with jersey and also with shredded fabric like cotton.
The day was intense but I really like working with different yarns which I was new to.
My favourite yarn was the fancy wool which you gather three or more wools together and then loop different colors in for a fringy tassled look to the wool.
I decided to use the fancy wool to make my neckpiece/shrug for assessment.
The only thing I would say was it took so long to make the yarn and then I had to knit it also which took plenty of time but I felt the outcome outweighed all of these obstacles and I was glad I used the fancy yarn in the end.

Some images to look at

 

 

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Manipulating shapes on the mannequin

After coming up with an array of diffrernt shapes from our object , we chose two of our favourites and then cut them out in brown paper.
Some shapes were small scale others were larger just to give us a better idea of scale and more variation to design from.
I really enjoyed working on the stand as it was new to me.
I also took loads of photographs of the work which I then used to design garments in my notebook.
Here are some photos of the paper design work.

 

 

 

Begining the Fashion elective

I have decided to use jellyfish as an inspiration for the fashion elective.
Jellyfish appeared in my sensing space project as I was looking at marine life,
I find the jellyfish to be a very interesting creature with many shapes sizes and colors to draw inspiration from.

Here are some photographs I found online .