More Swatches....

more swatch experiments :)

SO with this swatch I just cut strips of wadding. I lined them up and did simple stitches in an organised pattern to create this diamond effect. 

This was one of my trickier swatches... with this one I tied knots in the rope to create this square pattern. Because the rope was white I painted it this burnt orange colour and then covered it in latex to hold it all in place. I then stitched a piece of material to the back of the rope.

For this swatch I cut thick strips of material and Put a wide straight stitch down the middle using the sowing machine. I then secured the stitch at one end and with the other I simply pulled one of the threads to make the fabric scrunched up.

This material is actually something i picked up from the pound shop. I like the grid pattern already marked on it because it fits in very well with my project. I simply painted some of the squared to create this pattern I found outside the college on a drain.

I got this material upstairs in stores... its actually rug mesh People use for the underneath of carpets and rugs. I spray painted the mesh with a burnt orange colour that is in one of my colour stories that I'm thinking of using. I then cut thin strips of fabric and weaved this pattern threw the holes and stitched the material at the back to secure it.

-Sinéad

Smocking

Smocking is one of my favourite fabric manipulations. I tried a variety of different types of smocking and I picked my top favourite three to post on my blog. All of these three are different types of North American Smocking.

 

So this is called the lozenge pattern. I did this swatch to interpret the bricks on a wall. This was one of the simpler smocking patterns I tried.

This pattern is called lattice. I think this was one of the more challenging types of smocking but once you practice it it does get easier.

And this is a different variation of the lattice pattern. For all these pattern i simply just drew a grid of dot on the back of a piece of fabric... each dot being 2 inch apart from all other dots surrounding it. This swatch is created by alternating between slack and slip-knotted and pulled stitches.

-Sinéad

Swatches

So I'm just working on my swatches at the minute and I'm using neutral colour materials because I still haven't decided on what colour story I'm going to use... eeek! 

With this swatch i got some bubble wrap to and painted random circles orange.. when that dried I did a simple weave with another piece of material to create this grid like shape.

I wanted to experiment with the idea of square patterns as that's the most dominant pattern in my primary research. So I pleated individual squares and attached them onto a piece of fabric using bonda-web.

With this swatch i simply drew a diamond shaped grid on the back of a piece of material. I did a circular stitch around every dot on the grid.. when I pulled the stitch it forced the material to gather which gave this diamond shape grid on the front of the material.

I did simple tucks on a piece of material and stitched perpendicular lines down these tucks. With every second rectangular tuck I did a simple stitch to gather the material to give this pattern,

-Sinéad

Mark Making Workshop

So today in we had a mark making workshop and these are some of the marks i took from the pictures i took.

 I just created these out of black and white paper just by weaving, folding, tearing, pleating and cutting the paper.

-Sinéad

Theme of my project

So I decided that my theme is going to be of grids and the stuff in our environment that provide protection.

<  Bench outside in the smoking area of college

tiling of the floor in college  >

 This was the cover of a

 radiator in college  >

<   this was a decoration piece i found in the park across from college

- Sinéad

Fashion Design!

Yay so i got into fashion :) :) woo woo.... and now the work begins.

We have a 3 week project concentrating on pattern. During the weekend we had to take pictures and rubbing of our urban and natural environment. So i took a few walks around town both at home and in limerick looking out for different types of patterns in the environment. Here's some that i found that i thought were really interesting.

<   the radiator in college

a napkin i found lying around my house >

 < a vent from outside the college

A broken window outside the college  >

< a drain that reminds me of a snowflake

railings outside the college >

< this was a window i seen in the library with the pattern squashed in between 2 sheets of glass

 < pattern on the bark of the tree... reminds me of camoflauge

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the roof of a house in ashbourne

 < the tyre tracks of a tractor i found in a field near my house

^

The drain near my house with a diagonal pattern.

Know i have to selected the images carefully to form some sort of theme for tomorrow.

-Sinéad