Design, Print and Stitch: 2013

Wednesday 11 December 2013

DISSERTATION TIME!!!

Well on Friday 29th November I handed in my dissertation! Wooohooo!

Well this is it! My title was 'The History and uses of Scaves: A disscussion how Scaves originated and How they have Changed.'

A total of 5467 words without quotes! It was a hard journey to get to the end but it will be well worth it when I get my marks back!!

I was so happy on hand in day that when I got a picture taken I didn't care about my hair, you will also see Lucy on the right.

One of the happiest days!!

Tuesday 3 December 2013

I have finally finished my minor project. This project has been a tuff one! My project was about travel and 'The attraction of the worlds based on tourism.' My aim was to create a collection of 8 scarves!

Theses are my colour boards and my market board:

My drawings were based on landmarks that I had visited in the past for example: the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower. I wanted my drawing to become very quick and experimental, but add a digital side to it.

My final collection:

These ones are 90cm x 90cm:

The following 4 are all 70cm x 180cm.

My favorite one is the last one; this one is made from 100% cotton. It was a basic line drawing of a London telephone box, with a very pale background. As I had steamed and washed the fabric, all of the design had washed out and turned it to a horrible pink.

To make this better I decide to tie dye the fabric as it was a mess to begin with. So I soaked the fabric in cold water and from the middle I twisted in to a ball:

This shows the ball with the colours raspberry and blackcurrant I had decided to do the same colour the opposite section as this would turn out quite different. Then I tured it over to do the same on the other side but where it is blank on this side, I have decided to fill those sections in. This what what it looked like:

When I washed and dried it, it looked amazing and I loved the turn out! I also like the pattern that it left on my backing cloth!

This gave me sure inspiration for my Major Project!

On hand it I presented my bay very professional :

Next time I will be posting about my disseration hand in :/

Thanks becca :) x

Wednesday 27 November 2013

A busy week!

This week has been a busy week... I have sold 2 scarves :D wooppaa. Even though this is happy news I'm quite sad due to losing them!! These are the ones I have lost.

Both customers love them and I have seen them out wearing them!

:) Thanks xx

Tuesday 18 June 2013

Road trip to Leeds :)

Today me and my friend Lucy went to Leeds for a day trip, we went to the University of Leeds and The Leeds College of Art and Design degree shows!

I found both of them amazing, I loved both show I just had one pointer that the University of Leeds could have been more signed posted as we were walking around quite a lot around the building we needed to be in!!

Here is some work that I liked...

Leeds College of Art and Design:

University of Leeds:

The saying of the day:

I also saw two of the gold painted post boxes.

Summer time now!! Hopefully I get up to much! :) Thanks xx

Wednesday 12 June 2013

Our degree show...

All this week and last week has been my degree show, I have displayed my finals 6 scarves in the space that I was allocated. Every bodice is at a different height and width; I had designed it this way as I didn't want to just have them in rows and columns. The design I have placed them in has worked as there are some that make other pop out of the wall. This is my final degree show…

There's my name... more than once! :)

Here are some close ups…

These are made out off 100% Wool

These two are made from 100% Cotton.

These are 100% Silk.

If you have any enquirers or questions you can contact me on:

On the VIP night (Thursday the 6^th June) my friends and family came to the show and saw everyone’s work. Here are some more FdA Contemporary Textiles Practice.