Hand and Lock Competition

The project this term was to do a competition . The competition I decided to do was Hand & Locks Past is Present Competition. This competition was about combining different themes from different ereas. I decided to mix 1970's Glam rock with 18th century fashion.

My Favourite Quote

This is my favourite quote. Some one told me this and it has always stuck with me.

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud."

Strictly Ballroom

Two weeks ago, keturah and I went to London, to the Victoria and Albert Museum, where we went to see the Ballroom exhibiton. I really liked the exhibiton. I really liked the exhibiton and not just because my favourite designer Alexander McQueen had two dresses in there; but also because of the different variety of ballroom dresses they had, as well as normal dresses in there. There were countless variety of dresses from different decades such as the 20's from classy dresses to deputant dresses. To the 40's post and after war the rashion on material. The classic 50, swinging 60's 70's, 80's 90's and present each and every dress unique. Along with the ballroom dresses came classic designers, from Norman Hartnell, Victor Stiebel and Zandra Rhodes to Alexander McQueen, Giles Deacon, Erdem and Jenny Packham.

Badge Making

Over the last three wednesdays, we have been making badges for the exhibiton. We used images of our work that we liked and printed them out and turned them in to badges. I decided to print out drawings i had done of castles, roses covered in blood and my paper cut out castles. I thought they all looked really nice and really nicely presented in little bags and a nice cover to go ontop. When we had the private view Thursday I noticed a couple of people take a few of the badges I had made this made me feel really happy as I felt my work and myself were appricated.

My Final Project

For the exhibitoon i came up with a few ideas such as making a quilt or a wall hanging. After working with Stacie Cullen in paper making I realised that i wanted to do somethink relating to that.
The story I chose to do in the brothers Grimm project, was Little Breir Rose, (Sleeping Beauty). I tried to create work with the main icons in the story such as the spinning wheel, Little Brier Rose, the castle covered in thorns, the 12 good faries and the 13th bad fairy. I knew that I wanted to combine paper cutting and textiles together. So i created a number of paper cut outs of castles which didnt work out well and threw them in the bin. I then decide to do a paper cut of castles covered in thorns this took some time because they were very delicate and ripped after about my 1000 attempts i put the cut outs on to silk screens and created a series of prints on a variety of materials that i had chosen my self different colours different textures that i thought would worked well with the story. I also chose a variety of different inks. I then started to sew into them and stich into most of them and riped into them too.
Once I had done that I thought it would be a good idea to add faries into the design, which i thought would work well because of the story. So I collect most of the fairy images i had collected and got a black marker pen and coverd the image in ink. I then cut out the images and glued them onto A3 paper i then photocopied the images and then oiled them up and  put them onto a silk screen. I decided to use calaco material for the prints and also used a pale pink and lime green coloured inks for the faries.
After I had done that I then put the material into embroidery hoops and began to sew into the faries wings. When i had finished all of my work I then tacked the castle images onto the wall that I was using for the exhibiton and I then hung the embroidry hoops with the fairy wings from the ceiling using fishing wire. I thought this idea worked really well and it also looked nice at the end. I got a load of nice compliments from the public about my work.

Exhibition

Yesterday was the exhibiton for my course called 'work in process' we held the private view yesterday which was a sucess :D. Everyone helped each other to make the exhibiton a sucess. I really liked everyones work i liked how different each of the pieces were and how beautifully presented they were. I really liked Isla's shoes I loved how beautifully painful they look and how well presented they were. I think the exhibition was the perfect end to the first year of the new course :D

Only Make Believe

ive been trying very hard to make sure that i blog but i keep forgetting too :/
i feel that with this project i have done a lot more work and i feel quite proud of it :D
the only think i am quite concerned about is the work that is going to be put in the exhabition we only have three weeks left and i still dont have a idea or design that i want to go in the exibition. i have done work sure as paper cutouts of castles and thorns but i dont feel they are right to go in to the exhibiton and i have also pronted them onto material and that still doesnt feel quite right for me either.
i really like paper cutting and i like printing i have experemented by using the two together and i like how they work but i just feel like my designs are not good enough yet to go into the exhibation.
i dont want to go for the usual things i make such as a skirt or a printed canvas i just DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!!!!