Our overall task for our textiles class was a denim challenge, where we were asked to take a old pair of jeans and repurpose them into something else. I decided to repurpose mine into a pillow case/ Below our my progress photos and the finished product: Progress photos: Finished product: I ended up using two Read More…
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Textiles – Hand Stitching
On the second half of the third day, we were asked to create 6 hand stitching’s to practice how to stitch using a running stitch. Below are my progress photos and my finished versions: Progress photos: Finished versions: As I’ve never stitched before and I didn’t have any old, scrap fabric to use, I made Read More…
Textiles – Weaving
On the first half of the third day of textiles, we were asked to create at least 6 different weavings using whatever materials we wished. Below are my progress photos and my finished versions: Progress photos: Finished versions: I quite enjoyed doing these especially since I already had experience making weavings as I had made Read More…
Textiles – Speed Fashion Drawing Challenge
On the second half of the third day of our textiles class, we were asked to watch a puppet fashion show and draw each outfit as it went down the runway as quickly as we could. Below are my attempts at drawing all of the outfits: I found this challenge interesting as I don’t normally Read More…
Textiles – Pattern Challenge
On the first half of the third day of our textiles class, we watched a pre-recorded class on the pattern challenge and different ways to approach it. We were asked to take roughly 50-100 photos for the challenge then upload our favourites. Below are my favourite patterns I made: Once I got into the swing Read More…
Textiles – Mixed Media Recreations
On the second day of our textiles class, we were asked to recreate at least 6 of the photos we previously took using mixed media. Below are my progress photos along with the finished versions and their original photos: Progress photos: Finished versions: Original photos: I had a bit of fun putting these together. I Read More…
Textiles – Textiles Designer Research, Erin Flett
For my research on a textiles designer, I decided to research Erin Flett. Flett is an American textiles designer based in Maine. She runs her own shop that sells all sorts of things, from pillows to wallpaper. All the printing of her work is done by hand in Maine while her custom bark cloth and Read More…
Textiles – Textile Artist Research, Sheila Hicks
For my textile artist research, I decided to do some research on the artist Sheila Hicks. Hicks is an American textile artist from Nebraska who currently lives in Paris. She received her BFA and MFA degrees at Yale University then went onto receive a Fullbright scholarship to paint in Chile in 1957-1958. Hicks developed her Read More…
Textiles – Fashion Designer Research, Alexander McQueen
For our contextual research for our textiles class, we were asked to do research on 3 different people; a fashion designer, a textiles artist and a textiles designer. The fashion designer I chose to research is Alexander McQueen. McQueen was an English fashion designer who was based and born in London. McQueen was a chief Read More…
Textiles – Photos, Original & Edited
On the first day of textiles, we were asked to take 20-40 photos of different combinations of clothing with the same colours as our colour palette from our mood board and pick 10 of them to edit however we liked. Below are the original photos I took along with the edited versions: Original: Edited: I Read More…