Fashion & Textiles

April 2013

I have had to projects for my Fashion & Textiles course this year. The first project was to create a secret agent pocket involving my personal interests. The second project was to create a sleeve of a garment which involved my personal items that would represent as special value to me.

Project 1 - Secret Agent Pocket

Kickboxing is a hobby of mine and I thought this would be a good place to start. So I gathered information I could use to start my project.

Sketchbook Pages

 Throughout my sketchbook I experimented with different methods on how I could transfer an image onto a piece of fabric. I tried heat transfer by ironing on an image onto my fabric (pictures 1&2) then I also tried free machine embroidery on two of the images to see what effect it would give the transfer image. I tried the hot wax Batik (picture 4) which I dyed the fabric for 20 minutes for the wax to show up. I also tried Image Maker Transfer where I spread a thick paste on to an image and set it down on fabric for 15 minutes then applied water to make the image reappear (picture 4). I experimented with the screen print, I drew an image, placed it on a screen in order for me to spread ink through.

Sample pieces

Free Machine Embroidery

Free Machine Embroidery

Screen Print & Free Machine Embroidery

Project 2 - Wear your heart on your Sleeve

In this project I used items that were personal and held special value to me. I brought these into college in a little mesh bag. Items which included a necklace with my name on it, a bracelet I used to wear when I was a baby, rings from grandparents and great grandparents.

I photocopied my little mesh bag to see what experiments I could do with them before I started building my garment.
 My garment was made the materials organza and denim, organza for the front and back panel and denim to make the actual sleeve itself. 

A light blue organza for the front and back panel and white denim as the sleeve. As pictured above.

I tried free machine embroidery, screen print and combining both.

My Development of a Concertina Sketchbook

September 2012

  

First weeks of College - Induction Project 

My first assignment was to develop a concertina sketchbook about me, my interests and my journey. My interpretation of the word journey to me at the time would be where I have traveled so far. As I am interested in travelling, I decided on to make a carved  cardboard cut out of a plane and placed it as it was flying through the page into the sunset, as displayed in the picture below. This symbolises my future. (This also was the 3-D Element of my project)

 The Textiles element of my project was to symbolise the present, everything from left to right as shown below are spontaneous pieces which includes my interests and favourite things. By using free machine embroidery I was able to attempt to make a image of my surroundings. The zigzag stitching on the sewing machine was selected to maintain and hold everything in place. Then I screen printed a piece of text I had found earlier that day, produced a map of my way to college from home. To end the timeline I added my finger prints to prove it my own personal timeline.

To symbolise my past was the Visual Communication side of my project. I had taken a side profile photo of myself and turned that into text representing my past, displayed below. I answered certain questions like; What primary school did you go to? What is your most embarrassing moment?  

The final piece was the Fine Art part of the project. In a group with three others, the task was to create a piece that involves past, present and future.  We as a group decided to create  timelines, one with patterns that replicates heartbeats when simulated on a heart monitor, the second is a big circle come spiral. The two timelines would represent the past and present, the circle would represent future as we do not know what the future holds.

My Final product of my Concertina Sketchbook!