Weaving-

Firstly I tried out some paper weaving with different techniques (whilst keeping my colour palette in mind). I found that the different ways I was weaving created a different look die to the tightness of the weave. I really liked the appearance of the green toned paper weave I completed as it is quite perfect to me, this one took me quite a while to complete as the paper strips were quite hard to work with. I wanted to try and do a 3d version of the weaving so I wrapped some woven paper over a bowel to get it into a curved shape then gently slid the bowl out from it. I quite like how the woven strips are so large it looks quite interesting in my opinion.

After weaving paper I wanted to try and weave some material. I started with some wool and a piece of card behind it to show off the weave pattern. I think that this looks well, however it wasn’t as tight as I would have liked it to be, this was even more difficult to work with than the paper though, if I were to do it again I would defiantly use two different colours of wool as to keep it looking less confused when weaving. The last two that I did are multi media weavings consisting of denim strips, shoe laces and wool. I used two sticks and wrapped vertical strips of wool along it to be the base for my weaving. In my opinion these are the mist effective looking out of all the weaving and due to the different directions and imperfect manner in which I wove them together they have become something interesting to look at.

Sewing-

To work on some of my sewing skills before tacking the denim challenge I took some scraps of denim and some wool and thread and began to teach myself how to sew. I tried some basic running stitches, blanket stitching, embroidery, rice stitches and some crosses. I surprised myself and was able to do a lot more than I thought I would have been capable of doing. I adore how the “hate” embroidery turned out I think I kept the lines really accurate and the wool worked really well in making the letting stand out a lot and have a 3d effect. The hate patch is also quite large (about 30cm) in length and I will definitely be pinning it to some of my denim jackets and jeans. I tried to keep within my colour scheme so I chose some simple blue tones to tie in with the denim.