Year Two Week Four

 Week Four 

As I had been off for the last week before with illness, I started this week catching up on the pattern cutting and construction of the collars. When doing this I found watching videos helped me to understand the process and the measurements. I found making the patterns for the collars challenging still as of the many steps that goes into one collar and how you repeat and alter one collar multiple times to produce the top and under collar. However, the steps are becoming more recognisable as I go on.  

I then made these collars in fabric, bagging them out, and putting them on my mannequin. I think that these worked well as they all looked like my reference image and they held their shape well even though I didn’t use interfacing. The process of sewing these were simple as of the simple seams and I feel as though the corners have been pointed well from being sewn around. Next time to improve these collars, I would create more abstract and interesting shapes as they are quite similar with the rounded or squared corners. 

In Textiles this week I learnt about interlocking squares and how you can arrange them to make orang I like shapes. I liked how I could fold back pieces off the squares to make different designs and incorporate different fabrics and textures to make my designs more tactile. 

I collated my first year work to think about a portfolio page and I found that to show off my flower skirt I wanted to crate illustrations. I think this worked well as I managed to change my drawings from my book into interesting heads for my illustrations. I think this has elevated the page as you can tell it links to my skirt and the inspiration behind it. 

I also created weaves for my next page based on insects and I think it is an interesting way to show off my patterns mixing them and I like how the bright and darker colours contrast one another with the different directions of the designs.