Week Twenty Four

Week Twenty Four

In Textiles we learnt our architecture groups, I'm happy with the outcome of this as I haven't properly worked with the people in my group and it will be interesting to see how we can work so peoples strengths are seen. We worked well to create a contract agreeing on our rules and to make a time management plan listing what we are going to focus on doing this week. We decided on our building of choice and starting to make mark making drawings of this, this helped to think about the areas that we can use in the budlings to inspire our designs.

After choosing our building we completed more experimental mark making to help us with our next stage of our project, initial ideas. I made sure that this and analysing each others book was all done for the lesson at the end of the week so that I was at a stage where I could move on for the next load of work and not be behind. I made sure to add to my time plan so that I know what needed t be done for the next lesson- mood boards. In the last lesson of this week we had a guest speaker- Roy Mehta which was interesting to learn about his collections of work and how old photographs had resurfaced and become popular again. 

In pattern Cutting this week, I started to cut out my big panier into fabric. At home the night before, I cut out and starting sewing the smaller panier together as much as possible before I had to stop as I was waiting for my cotton tape which is for the straps. I'm finding that the process of sewing these together has become quicker since making my first one as I am understanding and learning the process more each time. 

When sewing the dress together I came across challenges when sewing the facing. Firstly, I sewd the facing to the neck hole without adding the interfacing, so I had to unpick this and iron the interfacing on where I accidently cut it on the fold of the wrong side so it wouldn't fit the fabric. To fix this I cut it in half through the middle and swapped the position so I could iron it whilst fitting the fabric. After this I used the burrito method so that I could attach the facing as the zip would go in to side. Whilst doing this I got confused on which piece of fabric goes where when rolling the fabric so I ended up with the facing right side up inside out. This meant I had to unpick this and reroll it. This time I watched a tutorial a few times slowly to make sure that this would go right and this was successful. After making all the Paniers and the dress I made sure to steam my garment to make the presentation neater. This was my first time using an actually steamer opposed to an iron and I found it had to get out the deeper creases but worked well on the surface. This was useful to use as I'm sure its something I will use a lot in the future. 

When completing my garment I managed to manage my time well as I finished it the weekend before it was due so that I would be able to have three days after to complete bookwork and complete the diary of making and the evaluation. 

In CAD this week we learnt about look books and what they are which is useful as we are going to be making one based of our architecture project. To help this process I made a mood board, thinking about colour themes and fonts. This helped me to think about my theme I could have and how I could execute it. 

This week started with Stretch as of the bank holiday so I started with making my weave. Doing this made me think about the order in which I should put my materials in so that the colours could be spread evenly and it all be of similar quality throughout so that it would look consistent. I think that this weave is working well as I have tried to incorporate different textures with plaiting and it links to my theme well as this are not my first used materials but are scraps.

Farnham Museum

 Farnham Museum 

During the break I went to Farnham Museum to look around and was pleasantly surprised to find lots of fashion. I found it interesting to see this all displayed next to and around scenes which were related to how it would of been in their date. 

They also had an exhibit on natural dyes and sustainable fashion. This was really interesting to see after completing my sustainable fashion project. It was interesting to read information on eco-friendly practices with alternative techniques to the workshop that I completed with the same artist. 

Once looking around the inside I went out to the garden which was really nice and saw that they had a natural dye garden which included three classical dyes- madder, weld and woad. They have other plants depending on season like Japanese indigo and rhubarb among others.

Overall, I found it interesting to look at all the things in the museum other than textiles related like their paintings an local postcards, which was nice to try and match up where they're from in the local surroundings and see how it has changed.   

Easter Holiday's

 Easter Holidays

Over the termly break I made sure to complete my toile so that I can start on my final garment straight away. Sewing the paniers went well as I was more confident in sewing this after completing the first one. I had no problems with sewing this but I have relised that if I want the ties to connect I may want to make some of these longer to make the reach between ties more comfortable. 

I then sewd the dress together, which was challenging when trying to mark out where I want the ties to connect in the seam. To overcome this I made sure to carefully pin where I wanted them to go so that they were in place for me to sew them. As my usual mannequin is smaller than the size 12 block pattern I decided to use my expandable mannequin so that the length of the straps from the bust to the shoulder would be more accurate to the length on the body. 

In this time I started to complete architecture work, this included, researching Zaha Hadid and her firm, the design cycle, illustrative drawings and mark making. I tried to work on my presentation by adding different colour paper and pens to add more interest to my pages. I also have created bigger bolder titles which I think works well as they are clearer and easy to read. I enjoyed doing this work as making the pages more interesting is enjoyable to do as I also enjoyed drawing fashion designs inspired by architecture.

 

Week Twenty Three

 Week Twenty Three

This week in pattern cutting I draped my panier sample that I made over the weekend to imagine how I could want this to be in my design. This was successful because it gave me ideas on how my designs can be developed and how I can attach this to the dress design. 

   

From designing my paniers and draping them I discovered that I want two of these asymmetrically but I think that the panier for the shoulder may be too big so I decided to divided the original pattern measurements and divided this by a third. 

I also started to make my dress pattern this week which I found a bit difficult to understand how to create the pattern with the empire waists. After asking to assistance I was able to understand the pattern so Incan finish this off at home over Easter. 

In Textiles this week I Finished of my skirt by added the zip. This was a difficult process to start with as the zip I had taken out of the trousers, in moving it around the zip had come of the teeth. Luckily someone had an old zip that I could use so this worked. When sewing this zip I accident send the two panels together with the zip affectively creating a fake zip so I had to amend this by unpicking it and sewing making sure it can open. 

I hemmed the top of the skirt to finish it off and then send the label in by hand to minimise the amount of stitches sewn on the right side. At home I decided to add poppers that where given to me so that the waistcoat wouldn’t flap open and would be more wearable. overall, I am happy with my final outcome as I think I have used materials sustainably. I also made sure to stick to my £10 budget and only brought second hand garments. 

 

In CAD this week we made a cover for a travel magazine which I enjoyed as we got to choice our image and our font. We also went over the parts of a magazine and what they mean which was useful as I wasn’t aware.

 

In Stretch this week I started to make my final lived for the global goals which Iw I’ll continue in the next lesson. I enjoyed this because I like weaving And I was preparing fabrics to be woven with, for example, plaiting the, to add structure and textures.  

In Photography this week I continued with my tabloid making on Indesign which made me think about ways that I could use this software to develop my pages to look more advanced. To do this I used photoshop to get rid of the background on some of my pictures to add this knot pages.