Looking back at some of my designs I started thinking more about the actual construction of my garment. I was hoping to use the sort of bubbley texture (see below) I created on the stand however, as that was pinned on quite randomly I wasn't too sure of how I should go about making this... … Continue reading FMP WK 6 →

Following the standwork that I did yesterday I started developing some design ideas for my final garment. To mix up my work abit and explore my work up till now in different ways, I used various methods and media such as drawings of my stand work using pen and pencil, watercolour, collage, and design sketches. … Continue reading FMP WK 6 →

  After talking with my tutor last week, I realised that I needed to do some more developed design work than the designs dotted here and there within my textile samples book. This will help me establish a more interesting garment structure that I can use as a canvas for my textiles. I decided to … Continue reading FMP WK 6 →

A number of events during earth day season have been on at the Somerset house, and a while back I had booked into an interactive sustainable textiles exhibition (part of Progress to process: Interwoven with makerversity). This was really useful to see the work being produced by current textile designers thinking in a more sustainable … Continue reading FMP WK 5 →

For most of today I just got on with making more samples and experimenting. We also had 1-2-1 meetings with our tutors to check where we are now and how we are going to be moving forward to finalise our projects now that we only have a few weeks left. My 1-2-1 meeting put me … Continue reading FMP WK 5 →

As a whole foundation year, we had a sort of half-way assessment today where we were mixed up in groups with people from the other foundation pathways like visual communication design, 3D design and fashion promotion, and had to assess each-other's progress so far. We started off by going through the criteria in a bit … Continue reading FMP WK 5 →

I thought it was about time I follow a more interesting route for my research so I decided to take a trip to Chelsea Physic Gardens, which is home to around 5000 plants that have various uses such as being edible and medicinal. In particular, I was interested in researching into the medicinal benefits of … Continue reading FMP WK 5 →

I spent today developing more prints, drawing upon the workshop earlier in the week and sorting them out in my book alongside my experiments. I shared my prints with some of my peers yesterday in order to get some feedback as we weren't going to have a crit session this week. In general they thought … Continue reading FMP WK 4 →

The workshops in today's session was less successful that I would have hoped. I was signed up for laser cutting and the digital embroidery workshops. Firstly there was a problem with the booking of the embroidery machine as our timetable had changed slightly, therefore we were not able to use it. Fortunately, one of the … Continue reading FMP WK 4 →

After discovering some artists that use real found objects from the natural world in their work, I also became interested  in incorporating things I find in nature within my textile samples. I enjoy collecting plants and pressing them and have been doing so for a few years so I had some saved from last spring- … Continue reading FMP WK 4 →