Further Inspirational Research.

 I have decided that my project needed more inspirational research to give me some more ideas for shape and strengthen the feel behind my theme of evanescent moments.

Looking at the siamese fighting fish (photography by Visarute Angkatavanich), has inspired me to make my knits more flowing and to look more at textures, using wovens with my knits in a different way.

Development samples - shape

Photography is an important element in my work and it has been an excellent way of creating shapes out of my knits that give a more innovative and free feel that is relevant to my theme.

Because my samples are inspirational fabrics for fashion it is important to have new and exciting shapes and photography is really working to help me to achieve this. I would like to carry on using photography to capture the mood and feel that I want my samples to give.

LIVE BRIEF. COLOUR INDULGE. Leutton Postle.

 For the Live Brief for Leutton Postle, I decided to look at the Holi Festival of colour and named the project 'Colour Indulge'. I carried on using wovens with knits as I have been with my major project (Evanescent Moments), however have really pushed myself to use the idea in a different way to create a totally different aesthetic.

I was really challenged in this project to create high quality samples to a short deadline, as usually my knits are quite intricate and time consuming. I managed to create a collection of samples to a high quality within the deadline and this has made me realise that I can be less precious over my knitting whilst sampling and play around with ideas more. I will take this with me when doing further work on my major project.

I feel that this Live brief has been extremely helpful and a great opportunity for me to challenge myself with style and colour and be pushed out of my comfort zone. I have used the brightest colour palette that I have ever used and have really enjoyed it. I would like to bring in a few of these bright colours into my major projection samples to lift them and make them more modern and interesting.

In this collection of samples I have used a mixture of knitting machines, included hand knit and used found materials such as ribbon and chord. Each samples brings something new and different to the collection and I got good feedback for this after the presentation. I will definitely keep this in mind for my major project and any future work when designing a collection of fabrics.

Development Samples

These samples have been successful with the use of dip dye. The dye ties in the colours throughout the sample and I am going to develop this further by joining dip dyed fabrics to the knits to create a smooth transition between knit and woven.

I feel the colours of these sample are much more successful, having areas of neutral with one or two colours gives a fresh and delicate aesthetic.