Saturday, 10 May 2014
final piece
finishing problems on the hoodie
As I was making my garment I notice some stuff didn't work as well as I was expecting for example I had to hand stitch my pocket as the faux fur was too thick to go under a sewing machine as I broke a needle! Also I had a slight problem with my patchwork as I left a 1 and a half centimetre seam allowance on the sides of the patchwork and I must've not use exactly all of the seam allowance in some areas as the calico shows a tiny bit, but it's not noticeable only if pointed out. One other minor problem of this hoodie was I also gave too much seam allowance for the collar and so the head hole is a bit tight. These are all minor glitches and could of easily been resolved if I did not put as much seam allowance.
creating final piece
This shows my process of creating my final garment, I chose to do crazy patchwork on the bodice of the garment by sewing the patches on the pfaff machine to have the little detail included into it, which was very time consuming. I then chose to use up my faux fur and create the grid like method with the printed cotton and faux fur on both sleeves of my garment, only I had to extend the arms as the fabric shrunk whilst doing this method. I also decided to only do one pocket for the cushion warmer as the faux fur was thick enough and it would've looked too thick to add another pocket on top of it. As for the hood I decided to use my mirror sequined fabric and sow on a gorgeous sequined detailed ribbon on the edge of it. As I was doing the garment I also lined the hoodie with micro thin pink fleece and over locked my seam allowance.
toiles for the final piece
Here are two of my toiles for my final hoodie, the first toile I made was out of crepe fabric which was extremely thin and light and would probably be harder to work on top of. After doing this first toile I knew I wanted to use a thicker fabric, and I needed to lift the pocket higher on the garment and also I needed to amend my hood pattern to be bigger. On the second toile I decided to use light weight calico as it's thicker than the crepe and much more stable to work on top of, I also created two pockets on top of each other on this toile to see if it was better to have one for the cushion warmer and another to fit your hands in.
desings for final piece
These are few of my other designs for my final piece, where I have simply used the same shaped hoodie but looking at different ways I can use my quilt making techniques on the hoodie, for example changing what type of quilting I would put on the bodice and the arms of the hoodie.
design options for final piece ( hoodie)
Here is one option for my final design, I have chosen to make a hoodie as my garment as hoodies are very popular for being a very comfortable clothing and personally when I think of a hot water bottle the first things that come to my mind is feeling ill, wearing comfy hoodie and pyjamas, slouching on the sofa all warm. In this design I have created the bodice of the hoodie covered in crazy colourful patchwork as seen above, the arms done using the piping method only instead of using straws like the sample above I would use a medium width cord. And lastly the hood and the pocket where the hot water bottle would be placed in would be done using the last image method, using faux fur and cotton.
http://gb.pinterest.com/welaao/unit-x-fairground/
embelished samples using organza and shari silk
These are a few of my embellishing samples I made after having the induction on the embellisher machine. In these samples I have used recycled Shari silk I purchased from wonder wool fair, also to show the decorated Indian elephant inspiration I have used recycled Shari silk spun into yarn, very bright and lively colours, also a bit of mirror sequined fabric. Although these samples don't look like much separately I think they would look extremely unique if used for patchwork or if I simply hand stitched on top of them.
hot water bottle
As a part of our final piece we have to somehow include a hot water bottle or a hot water bottle cover into or quilted work. The hot water bottle have extremely evolved over the past years, from being a big, heavy, glazed porcelain to a palm sized, light, plastic little warmer. Personally I don't know how people could have coped with carrying the porcelain hot water bottle. As I want to create a quilted garment also for my final piece I might create a comfort garment where it contains a pocket to hold on of the following hot water bottles, and also contain quilted methods.
inspirational quilted garments
http://www.treehugger.com/style/can-patchwork-actually-look-cool-one-chilean-designer-proves-so.html
Here are a mixture of differently made garments using quilt making techniques, all very inspiring to me as I am currently thinking of doing a garment using quilt making methods as my final piece. All of these garments are created in a different way and most importantly look very different, which is the most appealing thing about creating my own quilted garment is that it would most definitely be one of a kind. Out of all of these inspirational and elegantly done garments the two that inspires me the most is the hippy/boho styled skirt and the men's tailored jacket which is just breathtakingly beautiful.
Boro - Threads of life exhibition in Somerset house
This exhibition contained different pieces and some whole garments that was originally created in Japan by poor residents, that over the years made their clothes using parts of old clothing, cloths, cotton and denims and cleverly sewn and patch worked them together as shown underneath. This exhibition brought my attention to how we as people use clothes and any type of fabric for granted as a lot of us simply throw clothes away or burn them after they don't fit or just simply is not in fashion any more. I think this idea of creating new garments out of old ones is very liberating and would love to try it sometime. Personally I would have rather liked to see more of the garments in full rather than some of them that were cut to fit over a canvas.
patchwork samples
These are four different types of patchwork I have done, using a variety of very vibrant, girly, and somewhat childlike fabrics. The top image I have tried creating my own three layered patch which did not turn out how I imagined although I do like the effect of the mesh on top slightly revealing the bottom layer. The top right image is a sample I created using orange satin stitch in a circular shape stitching the printed blue and white fabric onto the synthetic shiny fabric, I also inserted the back of these circles with thin wadding. I really like this sample as it looks more wearable only the synthetic fabric was extremely hard to sow on. The last two samples includes crazy patchwork, The left image sown on sewing machine and the other by hand, I personally prefer the hand stitched sample because I could change the thickness of stitching and the colour and the actual stitch.
http://gb.pinterest.com/welaao/unit-x-fairground/
pfaff sewing machine induction
These three samples are from my induction on the pfaff machine, showing a wealthy amount of variety stitching that is available on the pfaff machine, my best stitch was the elephants! I am very interested in using this miraculous machine again, maybe using it to create an extra detail onto patchwork or simply to decoratively sow my layers together.
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