Fabrics for Furnishing and Fashion : Garment development

Once I chose my three favourite designs I began making them. I started by picking my colour palette and hand dying the fabric. I chose wool delaine for my skirts as it is light, easy to embroider and feels gorgeous. I enjoyed experimenting with the dyes in the lab to create my chosen colours. Once the fabric was dyed I began embroidering them, using machine and hand embroidery.
Here are some images from the making process.

Fabrics for Furnishing and Fashion: Garment Designs

Using a garment template I created many different garment designs using photocopies of my original drawings.

These are only some of my garment designs. When I developed my designs I had to pick three of them to make. I am not actually making the skirt just the garment shape, to display me embroidery skills in the hope they can be taken to a trade show one day to sell.

Fabrics for Furnishing and Fashion

I am currently half way through another assignment, Fabrics for Furnishing and Fashion. Starting with the fashion, I had to design three garments of my choice, either skirts, dresses or tops. I chose to do A-line skirts. These garment designs could possible go to Paris next year or to other trade shows so I wanted to make them as good as possible. The theme for the garments was floral so I started by doing drawing boards using flowers, and different medias. Here is an example of one of my drawing boards. I used baby blue as a background colour, as pastel colours are currently in fashion. The drawings are very graphic and stylised which is one way I like to draw. I used heavy black blocks and some subtle colouring using coloured pencils.

 

I did many different drawings to find exactly what I wanted for my garment designs.For this drawing I used gousche paint to create this bold painting of a iris. I like how bright and colourful it is. Gousche paint is one of my favourite wet medias to use.

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 I created this image by drawing on brown paper using fine liners and watercolours. This is very graphic but slightly more subtle than the iris with only sections of colour.

 This is the black and white version of the one above, I love the look of this, it's so wonderfully simple and yet stylised.

Printed and Embellished Surfaces

The lasts university assignment I had to complete was, printed and embellished surfaces. I really enjoyed this assignment cause I love embroidery and all things stitch. Also loved learning new skills when it came to printing, it has become one of my strongest skills. I was a lot of hard work but I am pleased with final pieces and the grade I was given. I loved experimenting with this project, dying my own fabrics and coming up with layouts.

Pictures of my screen in two parts, I used this to print with. Examples of my printing:

I used pigment, foiling, expandex and minor foam to create these prints as well as my own hand dyed fabric.
Examples of Embellished work:

With the embellished pieces, the task was to make pieces that looked like drawings I had drawn in previous assignments. I think I did a really good job with theses and I am really pleased with them

Busy busy times

Time to update this blog its been far too long, blame my busy life and university. So prepare to be bombarded with posts now.

I am so busy at the moment! I think my work bay at uni proves it. Total chaos! I am such a messy worker! It is such at mess at the moment I am struggling to even work at it. I WILL tidy it at some point!
I have decorated it with my latest inspiration, from Prada's summer/spring collection to some other artists work.

Like this lovely piece by Tracey Emin. I think it is so sweet and makes me smile every time I see it, which I sometimes need during a hectic day at university.