So it’s been a little while since my last post. The first
year has finished and now I’d like to catch up and write some posts about the
projects from the first year that I haven’t already covered.
After the Weave project, we moved onto a Quilting project.
This was a group project where each group had a different theme and “nothing
flat” was our theme. As a group we chose our colour palette at the start of the
project but we then found that we went off to work independently. The only time
we actually came back together as a group was in the final stages to present
it. In hindsight I think that if we had chosen our groups ourselves we may have
worked better as a team throughout the project.
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| My group's colour palette |
Quilting by definition is to pierce through two or more
surfaces. This gives a lot of flexibility to people using this technique as you
do not just have to stay with traditional stitching.
As part of the project I had to create 15 or more samples
using our chosen colour palette and within the theme of “nothing flat”. We
could go back and use knit, weave or print techniques to create these samples.
The aim of this project was to help us to decide which path to specialise in
for the remainder of the course.
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| Machine embroidery and fabric manipulation. |
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| Multi-coloured plain weave on the loom. |
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| Multi-coloured plain weave close-up. |
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| Free-hand machine embroidery and beading. |
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| Fabric manipulation using machine stitching. |
To create my samples I decided to use weave, embroidery and
fabric manipulation techniques. I really enjoyed experimenting within these
techniques to develop my samples and this helped me to decide that weave was
the path I wanted pursue.
Sam
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