Hand Embroidery

I really enjoyed making this design, i started out with a block screen print of a leaf in the middle of my fabric. Then to add all the leaf detail i printed in a silver foil over the top of the block leaf. I really loved the effect it made. Then i decided to hand embroider two leafs either side of the middle one, it was very time consuming but worth it all in the end! Hand embroidery has to be one of my favourite techniques, i love the results you get at the end. 

Screen printing/Embroidery

This is one of my final designs i did for an older project. I started out by screen printing the middle flower in a bright colour and then i printed two leafs on either side of the flower in silver foil. To make the leafs stand out more i decided to embroider around them in a green thread. And then to finish my design off i added some reverse appliqué to the leafs by adding purple fabric underneath so the colour came through when i cut away certain pieces of the top fabric. 

Weaving

I love making a weave out of fabric,  Its so easy and fun to do. To make your own weave all you need is fabrics and any other materials you want to use and you need to cut them into strips. You will need quite a few so make sure you have enough fabric. You will also need a piece of cardboard, however big you like. Then you will need to make little cuts all along the top and bottom of the cardboard, then using a piece of string you will go from the top hole to the bottom until the board is full with string. The next step is to weave your fabric in and out each section of string, you need to keep adding fabric until it is tight and you cant fit anymore in.

This is what you should end up with. ones yo have finished adding your fabric, tie the left over sting and take your weave of the cardboard. 

Reverse Applique

This is one of my favorite techniques I've done. So i started out with the same pink fabric from the last post i did and i used screen printing with glue and silver foil to create the silver leaf. Then i added a green piece of fabric underneath it and using an embroidery hoop i did reverse applique. I only did this on a few sections of the leaf because i liked the effect it made.

Princess Pleating

Hi everyone, today i'm going to post some of my older work. For this piece i had some thin fabric, it was sort of see through and it frayed a lot. With the piece of fabric i decided to experiment with screen printing block coloured leaves and also leaves which had all the detail on. This worked rather well although it did look rather boring so i decided to experiment even further by princess pleating over the top of the leafs.

Fabric Manipulation

Hi everyone,
So i just thought id show you some of the techniques we've been learning. This post is about fabric manipulation. I don't think I've ever done fabric manipulation before but we've learned a rather easy but possibly time consuming technique. Basically you need to start out with a piece of fabric of a decent size. Then you need to find yourself a grid, so anything metal with holes in it. I used a metal cutlery tray to do mine.

You start out by soaking your fabric in water just until its wet and then ring it out until it just damp and not dripping. You then need to place your damp fabric over the metal grid, and using a pen or a pencil poke the fabric through the holes of the grid. you can create a pattern depending on which holes you leave and which you push your fabric through. Once you've pushed the fabric through the holes you need to leave it to dry. If your in a hurry use a hair dryer for quickness. Once your fabric is fully dry you then need to iron a piece of bonder web onto one of the sides depending on which side you like best.

(This is what mine looked like when i took it off the metal tray.)

(Then i ironed the bonder web onto the back.)

I also tried using a piece of cream fabric and doing the same process but while it was still on the metal try and still damp i used a pipet and dropped food colouring into the little holes. I then ironed the bonder web onto the other side of the fabric as i found this side more interesting. 

Drawing Techniques

Hi everyone,

So I've recently started a new project at college where we had to choose a theme, produce samples in our chosen colour palettes and then produce a finial piece. 

So for my theme I chose Gothic Luxe, the reason I picked Gothic is because I wanted to do something different to what I would usually do and i liked the look of the darker more mysterious colour palettes. 

So we started out by producing some drawing. For this we each brought in objects which were to do with our chosen themes and we basically just drew them in different medias and styles. 

This drawing above i did in a black pen and I used the continuous line technique which I rather like as it gives it a very loose, sketchy look. This drawing was from a piece of jewellery I bought which I thought was quite Gothic and different. 

The drawing above I also did in the same black pen, but I used a tonal technique. This is one of my favorite drawing I've done for this project because it looks three dimensional and I'm just very happy with the way it turned out.