3DSP Samples Fabric Manipulation

My last chance to finish off my fabric manipulation samples in late night with Rich. I finished off a couple of tucks (Contoured and Slashed) that I didn't have time for Monday. In addition to this I also created some other folded fabric textures: Interlocked Square, Prairie Points and Bias Strip Boarders. I tried a few different types of Bias strips looking at different sizes and ways to use them.

Leaf Print Samples

I got to test out my screen with the leaf design. i wanted to test out a combination of different colours on different dyed cotton. From these tests I can pick out which type of print I'd like for the top layer of my quilt. Out of my prints my favorites three were yellow, dyed flock and clear foil on the mixed dyed fabric. I want to test these three with wear and tear and see how they look after that process to decide which I think is best.

3DSP - Tuck Samples

With the textiles workshop being closed all day I've borrowed a sewing machine and taken it into the metals workshop with rich. I have been focusing on churning out fabric manipulation samples. Carrying on from tucks I've been researching the many different types of tucks and have put that into practice by creating a whole range for my 3DSP. In this time I looked at Pin, blind, centered, double centered, tapered, Shell, Cross-Stitched and Cross-tacked tucks. I managed to make a big impact into my samples collection today making around 7/8 samples. I basically aimed to cover all the areas of tucks before moving on, attempting to cover the grounds as its getting close to the deadline soon.

3DSP Tutorial

To start this week I had a tutorial with James for 3DSP. We basically discussed what I have and whether I was ready for the deadline  Samples fine. My biggest issue is how I was to present my samples as I know that I wanted to have books as the idea was that they are for referring to. But I didn't want to just have images of my samples as with textiles I like to look at the quality of it in person and you can loose some of the details in an image. James suggested that I need to find a way of binding these samples together, something like a big clip or something. As soon as he said it I realized that I will use binding rings to hold them all together and for my chunky quilted samples I'll sew hooks on to bind them with the rings.

Quilt Ideas

After screen printing it's really allowed me to think about what ideas I might have for what I want for my finished piece. At first I wanted a big quilt, then it changed to three mini quilts and then just one mini quilt. But now after considerations of all my ideas I think I return to the idea of three as I have too many ideas for just one mini quilt that I believe it's going to look over crowded. So to separate my ideas into 3 quilt pieces might work out better. My ideas for the three quilts are:

• A torn quilt with layers of my screen printed design
• A quilt with a laser cut of my leaf pattern on the first layer revealing text or screen print design
• A formation of my fabric leaves in a quilt

For this to work it's going to be a lot of work to organize all the together. It may happen that I only make one of the quilts.

Fabric Dyeing & Screen Printing

I've been producing some screen printed samples to test out the best use of my print design. As my Idea for my quilt is to print onto a dyed fabric of my natural colour themes I started with dying some fabric in preparation. I also dyed some plain colours to test for subtle printing. I mixed up some paint for the green and brown and printed on the same plain coloured fabrics and I really like the subtle addition the prints give rather than something incredibly bold. I also did a streaky print of green and brown on a light green dyed fabric, where I splatted brown on the screen with a normal print of green giving it a subtle hint of colour change in the print. I really like this and want to try it with the yellow i want to mix up and on the multicoloured fabric.

3DSP - Fabric Manipulation - Tucks

Today was a 3DSP day. This day I worked solidly on making samples. I've kinda lost my way with my quilting samples as I'm struggling for ideas but I have moved on to fabric manipulation for the mean time. I went through the Creative Tucks and Textures for Quilts and Embroidery book I got from the library which is so much easier to understand than the Fabric Manipulation book as it explains it better and has better diagrams. I started simply with basic tucks and played with the twisting of tucks to make interesting three-dimensional shapes with them. After that I then learnt about crossed over tucks and played with changes of them. And finally I created a few samples of fabric additions you can add to pieces give variations and decoration. I made 15 samples today, I'm so proud of the amount of impact that has added to my 3DSP samples.