Project Inspiration

Hey everyone, Getting stuck into my first independent project at uni was not hard at all. In fact if anything I had missed it. It's been some while since I was looking for inspiration for a project, producing mood boards and sketchbooks. I would not even call it 'homework' anymore, It's something I truly love and hopefully one day will be my career. I thought I would share with you the begin of my project, My inspiration. 

Sketchbook Ideas

Hello lovelies! 

With university very very close, You textile/crafty guys and gals are probably still working on or not even started your summer project yet. I thought I would make this mondays blog post a little motivational and inspirational with some sketchbook inspiration I found on pinterest!

Tree Texture | Textile Inspiration

In textile design, As in any other creative subject it can be so easy to get unmotivated due to lack of inspiration. This summer I have been thinking about texture's and how different people perceive them using different techniques. Texture is literally everywhere, Nature is the key when it come's to texture, Weather it is the rust on an old iron gate or the back of a leaf, It could be the wing of a dragonfly or the tiniest grains of sand, Each and every one has a different texture. Today's blog post is focusing on the texture of tree's and different ways to develop and inspire to create something using different techniques.

Needle Felted Petri Dishes - Tactile Sampling

It has been decided that my main scarf I shall be making which will be purely for my exhibition will be as tactile as can be. Taking this into consideration I had an idea of sewing some needle felted creations onto samples I had already created to see how it would hold and look like. I took one of the needle felted petri dishes I made a few week back and hand sewn it onto a silk printed sample. 

This is what the outcome looks like. I really really like it and I shall make some more of these petri dishes enough to put out for my exhibition and to sew onto my scarf. I hope you all like it and if you have any other ideas for my exhibition please comment! 
Thankyou for reading x

Where I Find And Log My Inspiration For Projects!

The world of social media is amazing for finding inspiration for projects, patterns, artists, You name it, It's on it! I think it is really important you log your inspiration, Yes in a sketchbook is fine, as it is fundamental to have a sketchbook on going through your project but theirs something more about having a ways to log things on the internet! Maybe it's because a sketchbook's pages can run out and sure the internet can be slow sometimes and even disconnect but it will always be there! First thing's first, Pinterest is sha-mazing for us textiles fanatics!! Its full of inspiration for patterns, knit, weaving, felting, sewing, It also has tutorials and even free patterns to cut! To use pinterest is easy peasy! You create your profile, You can chose a username and you create a password and what not then your on!! Now to the fun bit, You can create boards to organise the things you 'pin' (this means the thing you put on your profile/board's weather you add the picture/link on yourself or weather you re-pin from someone's board's). It pretty easy to follow people that's interested in the same things as yourself as their are sections you can browse. Its pretty easy to use and very addictive!! Check out my pinterest here to get some inspiration!! Secondly I like to use tumblr, This isn't necessary as pinterest is more organised and better for pictures but I like to use it to type things up, for example if I get an idea for my current project I can just write it down on tumblr. People do use tumblr for a more personal type of blog but you can search anything you want and you will find lot's of it! I've just made a new tumblr purely based on textile's so if I get fed up of being on pinterest or writing blog posts I can simply just have a look on tumblr, It's kind of hard to describe tumblr to you but you should defo sign up and have a look around, have a look here at my tumblr to get the idea of it. Finally, last but not least, Blogger! Blogger has been a life saver when it come's to keeping a journal of my textiles life! I like to write posts at least 3 times a week updating you guys on my current project and giving you tips and tricks on how to do things along the way! It will also be nice in a couple of years to look back to and see how far I have come and gained more skills in textiles. I hope this has helped everyone! 

Thankyou for reading.