Eight Weeks to Go

not joking. eight weeks to go until my degree collection is finished and up on display for my graduate show!!!!! HELP!! okay i think i will be okay but heres a quick update from the last 6 weeks!!

I did a fabric shop in London.. well its got to be done hasnt it!

My business plan is handed in.. that a 150 page report of research and final written plan!

Colours im working with at the moment. some changes to be made

Organisation :(

Well i visited my favourite fabric shop in the world :(

some drawings

In the print room again! - printing onto my digital prints with gold.. YUM!

Visual Journal

Got a moleskin journal. its great for scribbling ideas, without feeling like its a formal sketchbook, but at the same time, its an expensive moleskin so you want to make each little scribble a good quality!

Heres some of my scribbles for fabric repeats. these probably only make sense to me!. Basically planning a gold overlay. i plan to submit this moleskin as my 'visual creative diary' - but with no dates.. nobody needs to know i only got this at christmas! ;)

doodles doodles doodles

Beads beads beads!

I am currently adorning my cotton fabric samples with beads! I hope to have beads as a design feature for smaller items such as coin purses , pencil cases and luggage tags. 

Depending on the pattern, I may have to add beads once the product has already been constructed.. But these are just samples for now! 

I have a selection of clear, silver. Gold, bronze, glass black and matte black beads to try :) 

Beadwork

Just adding beads to one of my cotton sheeting fabric designs!

I intend to use these kind of designs of little items like purses and brooches perhaps, nothing thats going to get as scruffy and thrown about as usual luggage collections do!

Loving the matt black beads which you can see, just about, in this first image here.

Just an experiment, and the best thing is i can sit infront of the TV and do it! 

Gold Lanterns

One of the things i loved the most about Edinburgh is their use of little lanterns. These could be modernised streetlamps, with solar panals and LED bulbs, but no, they keep it old school with these lovely little lamps. they were everywhere and came in all shapes and sizes. The most quirky ones were down alleyways, as the alleys have been extended to include business' over the years, and if you look down a really long one you can see batches of different lantern designs :)

This evenings i have been bondawebbing some basic lantern detail and using this lovely material i found yesterday. Its called Gold Microdot, and the gold and black theme will run throughout this project, as i think it reflects Edinburgh Royal Mile & Castle Hill so well!

using my handwriting again in my work

Gold!

You can really see the gold that well here :(

Some more experiments coming soon! Need to get into the print room!