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.

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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.

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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.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/g/gianni-versace/

 

http://www.treehugger.com/style/can-patchwork-actually-look-cool-one-chilean-designer-proves-so.html

http://makeitdigital.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/mcqueens-patchwork.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. 

http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/boro

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.  

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