Uni Life: Fabric Flower Making

I took inspiration from these flowers. 

And decided to try and make something similar with fabric.

Here is what I used... 

Some background fabric.

Three different sizes of petals cut out of fabric.

A glue gun. 

And the last thins is different fabrics and scissors. 

This is what I started with and decided to stick with this cream fabric. Then I just carried on with the flower by gluing petals  on top of each other and build them up. 

So this is what I finished with and I really like the outcome of the process. At the end I decided it needed something more so I then stitched the sequins on. 

To evaluate... I really like this processes and want to try some more and do more projects Like this. 

Uni Life! - Printing with Apples and Oranges

What I used: 

- 1 apple

- 1 orange 

- a couple pages of A3 paper 

- I also printed on some calico 

- gouache prints 

- a few paint brushes 

- a pot of water to clean your brushes 

Oranges:

As you can see here I cut the fruit in half and coveredit in paint and printed with you would a stamp. (I did the same with the apple.) 

I really loved the print the orange gave me. 

Apples:

I loved the print a apple gave too. 

I also mixed up some colours and printed with that I really like this process and think it looks really good. 

These are all the different prints I got.

Uni Life! - Knitting!

Knitting try outs... 

I also decided to try doing some Pom poms. I really like these but I'd like to try out some smaller and bigger ones. 

Here and this image below you can see, I decided to try out this bobble stitch. 

I really enjoyed doing this and I think knitting for some is classed as 'old fashioned' but I think it can be modern. 

Uni Life! - Natural Dyes

So I decide to try out dying some fabric with natural dyes. I looked online and found out Beetroot, Onion Skins and Saffron worked best. So I tried it out... 

This is Beetroot Boiling to let all the colour come out. 

This is the onion boiling. 

After letting the beetroot and onion boil in pans for about 1 hour to 1 hour and a half. I took them out.

I then wet my silk, this lets the fabric take in the dyes better. 

I then put the fabric (silk) into the different natural dyes. As you can see below and above. 

I let these (above and below) soak in the beetroot and onion skin liquid for about 1 hour. 

I then removed them from the beetroot and onion skin liquid and gave them a rinse (above and below). 

Then I decided to try out the saffron. 

Then I added the fabric into the saffron and left it to soak for 30 minutes. 

Afterwards I took the silk out the liquid and gave it a rinse.

I then decided to warm up the saffron liquid to see if it made a difference I also added abit more saffron. 

This is the silk in the boiled saffron. 

Then I took it out and gave it a rinse. 

Here are all the died silks drying. 

I really enjoyed doing this and really like the outcome. I think I should have used fresh beetroot instead of pickled beetroot, I hope to try using fresh beetroot. Overall I enjoyed the process/ project. 

Uni Life! - Skirt and Shirt!

My shirt and skirt project this is what I made. 

Here is my skirt and shirt that I made. 

I decided to role up the sleeve because I really like this effect on shirts. Here you can also see my hand embroidered buttons I really loved this addition to the shirt. 

Here and the image below you can see the hand embroidery I did. I decided to do the buttons and the flowers in the pleat the same colours so they matched I really like this element. 

Here you can see a swing tag I made this shows what work is mine and how it would look if it was maybe in a shop. 

This was my four garments on the rail ready to be marked the four I had were my mock up skirt and shirt to see if I liked how they looked and if I wanted to change anything on them. Although at first I didn't manage my time very well so at the end of the project was a mad rush to get it finished I really love what I came out with. 

To evaluate I really enjoyed making and see it all come together but I wish I would have spent more time on my sample work. 

Uni Life! - Drape

 

These are all the front and back's of my drape try outs at University. I have never done drape before so this scared me a bit. But by the time I finished I really liked trying out different ways to drape and creating different shapes with the fabric.