A Day In The Life #7

All day I've sewn and sewn and sewn! My big exhibition scarf is finally coming together, The angelina fibers and needle felted bacterial petri dishes I had are all sewn onto the scarf, Of course with the scarf being 4.5 meter I had not created enough to cover the whole scarf as it is huge! Tonight and tomorrow I shall be creating more needle felting's and more angelina fibers to sew onto my scarf, As well as needing to make needle felted jewelry and print my scarfs to sell, So you will probably understand how stressful it is right now but hopefully it will all be worth it. So far I have sewn the angelina fibers underneath the needle feltings, But I shall also have random needle feltings scattered everywhere. Here are a few pictures of my progress.

That's been pretty much it for today guy's, hand sewing takes a lot of time and I've not had much time to do anything else today. I hope you all are enjoying the progress I am making.

Thankyou for reading x

A Day In The Life #5 - Printing Silk Scarfs

My plan for today was to go to college this morning to cut out my holographic heat transfer material for my big scarf as I need to do this first before I can start sewing on my needle felting's. When I got to college the print room was free and I was able to print which is a bonus as I want to get everything printed as soon as possible then I can concentrate on other things such as my needle feltings for my scarf and for in my petri dishes and also for my rings and earings which came today!! So excited about that!!

Today I printed two small scarf's, one silk and one muslin, using very different colour's. The first one was my silk scarf. I started off by masking taping the silk down to the print table which I had previously cleaned and dried. 

The first colour I printed was a turquoise and blue colour and after I printed it, it looked like this.

After I had printed blue I washed my screen and squeegee and put them to dry, I got out my second screen and put some clean gloves on and got printing, This time I printed a bright pink colour.

I really like how this one looked after the second screen but I was struggling to think of what colour to use on my final screen. I decided to use the silver pigment, Although I had not used this before or sampled it I thought it would look good so I went ahead and used it.

The end product looks really amazing the silver pigment gives such a good finished look and I am so glad I used it!! I washed my screen and squeegee and put them to dry and took the fabric I just printed into the classroom to dry, I then washed and dried the table.

The next scarf I printed was one I dyed, pressed and washed yesterday which is the orange and yellow muslin one aswell as an off cut from my big scarf which I had dyed a few days before. I started off by masking taping the fabric's to the table, I then got my colour's and first screen ready and started printing!! The first colour I used for these fabrics was a coral/orange pigment I mixed myself. 

Leaving my pigment to dry on the fabric I took my screen and squeegee in the wash room to clean and then placed my screen in the drying cupboard. When it was time to do the next screen I went for a bright pink and hoped it would look alright.

You can not really tell on the picture above but the out come of the second screen looked really good and bright. The pink and orange really complimented each other on the background colour of my fabric. I next printed a purple pigment after I had washed and put my screen to dry and got my last screen out. 

I really liked the outcome of this scarf, perfect for summer! When I took it off the table and into the class room to dry, The colours look really beautiful when the fabric floats! I am so happy I got to print today as printing a little every chance I can get makes my time management better and means I can focus on my needle felting.

The jewelry making earings and rings I ordered came today and so did my petri dishes for my exhibition. I was so happy when they came as that means I can focus on doing them and I now know the sizes so I can needle felt for them now. 

I am really happy with the work I have completed today. My plan for tomorrow is to maybe go into college (Its my day off) to use the heat press if not then I shall be spending the full day doing some needle felting so I can use the heat press on Friday at college and also use the hot glue gun for my rings and earings.

I really hope you enjoyed my blog post and if you have any ideas for my exhibition or any feedback please feel free to get in contact with me, You can see how to find me on my about me page or just leave a comment on here. 

Thankyou for reading. Come back tomorrow!!

A Day In The Life - Needle felting and New Idea's

This morning I spent time doing some needle felting as I still have a lot to do. As I need to create bacterial petri dish needle feltings to sew onto my large exhibition scarf as well as bacterial petri dish's to put in actual petri dishes just for show in my exhibition. I then also had an idea to create some little items to sell in my exhibition to make my money back, I have ordered some jewelry making rings, earings and ear wire's and I shall be making needle feltings to glue onto these with the hot glue gun to sell at my exhibition. 

I gathered all the wool I had, not sticking to any colour schemes and set off to make some needle felted bacterial petri dishes, nothing too detailed, just some quickish colourful needle felts to sew onto my exhibition scarf. 

I only had time to do a couple of these. I then started to create a couple of little ring sized cell needle felts which I will glue to a ring and which can be sold. I did not get any picture's of these as I feel they could do with some improving but I shall write a blog post as soon as I perfect them!!

Sorry this blog post is only short and sweet as I've had a busy weekend and if you read my blog you probably know this blog post is a day late too, I hope you enjoyed it nevertheless.

Thankyou for reading x  

Development Sheets - Final Major Project

My development sheet's, To create these I took inspiration from my visual sheets and used different scale and colour and merging different patterns together to do this. I created these sheets using pencil first, Then painting it with gouache and silver paint pen. Here are a few photo's of my first development sheet.

This sheet concentrates on cells (close up) and bacteria. I like the shapes and colours used in this sheet particularly, I am really happy with it. The holographic silver paint pen really makes the sheet come to life. Here are pictures of my second development sheet.

 This sheet concentrates on petri dishes, although cells are still a running theme in the background. I also like this sheet as it shows development rather clearly, I also used many colours on the petri dish looking circles as I wanted to see what colour's worked best. I like how the background makes it come to live and I shall bare that in mind when doing my tracing.

I also have started - not yet completed - another development sheet where I have drawn out the patterns I want to take into my tracing's, This is tying all of my sheets together in one final sheet. I shall upload a photo when this sheet is completed. I did these sheets to the best of my ability and I don't think I could improve them. All I would say to myself is to keep the same level in my tracings.

In conclusion I am happy with my development sheet's and think they are to a good standard, I can't wait to get my tracing's done now and start sampling.

Thankyou for reading.