I have used the embroidery technique of french knots previously at GCSE and I am interested in creating a sample using embroidery so I created a moodboard to visualise my ideas.
I really like the bottom photo on the left where all the french knots in the middle are condensed and then they spread out more and more as they are further away from the centre.
As I am interested in potentially trailing this method in my FMP, I thought I would do a little bit of research on the technique and create a moodboard to visualise my ideas.
I really love the moodboard I have created, Ice dyeing looks a very interesting technique.
I then searched how to Ice dye and I found a website called Tie Dye Your Summer and they had a very informative step by step with photos and videos on the Ice Dye technique. I will probably loosely follow there method to create my own samples.
Dyeing fabric with salt is an unusual technique that I may experiment with, so I did a little bit of research and created a moodboard.
I have gathered the images below from Pinterest of dyeing fabric with salt as inspiration and saved them to my Pinterest board called Final Major Project – Data, Pinterest Board.
The images in the moodboard below are not my own.
I could not find many Dyeing fabric with salt photos on Pinterest but I am still happy with the moodboard with only a couple of photos.
I then found and watched a YouTube video by TulipColourCrafts called Tulip Tie-Dye Salt Resist How-to. I will probably roughly follow this method.
I am interested in creating a Bubble/Balloon skirt as they have a lot of volume and they look really effective. I envision this skirt being a garment representation of the planet Mars with the colours of mars and Suffolk Puff Craters.
I think that I prefer the longer Bubble/Balloon Skirt as it is a lot more dramatic than the shorter skirts that are above the knee.
I started my search for a pattern by looking in my 6th Edition Metric Pattern Cutting for Women’s Wear by Winifred Aldrich book for any skirt pattern that may be of use or that could be adaptable. However, I could not find any pattern that was remotely similar to a bubble or balloon skirt or any patterns that could be easily adapted to create a similar effect.
Next I decided just to search Bubble/Balloon skirt into Google to see what I was able to find. I found a step by step Women’s bubble skirt tutorial on a website called Easy Peasy Creative Ideas. This show you how to create a short bubble skirt but I think I will be able to adapt this to create a longer skirt.
Bibliography
Aldrich, W., 2015. Metric Pattern Cutting for Women’s Wear. 6th ed. Chichester.
Previously in my last project I experimented with creating my own patterns and sewing my own pattern magic samples inspired by the Pattern Magic designs by Tomoko Nakamichi. I also created a research post all about Pattern Magic called Pattern Magic Research.
I think that this project is a great opportunity to further experiment with these techniques and actually incorporate this within a garment. I also would like to trial using interfacing to strengthen the fabric, I hope this will give more of a defined 3-D shape. I will also trial using different fabrics, as last time, I only used calico.
I am interested in creating a bodice block with a 3-D cube within the design this cube will represent NASA’s Perseverance Rover.
I started by creating a moodboard to visualise my ideas. I saved a few Pattern Magic photos onto my Pinterest board called Final Major Project – Data, Pinterest Board. I chose two images from Tomoko Nakamichi’s first books front cover from two different angles as well as two of my own one samples, which I pinned on my mannequin. I also added little colour swatches onto my moodboard of colours I am interested in using.
I have now had a look through all 4 of Tomoko Nakamichi’s Pattern Magic books and the book that will be the most useful for me in this project will be the first book as within it is show and explains how to create the design on the front. I will then hopefully be able to adapt this to create my own pattern using only one cube and the close fitting bodice block pattern I created in the first project that uses my own measurements.
Below are the results from my recent Mars Survey . I received 24 votes on all 8 of my individual polls.
The first poll results show that a majority of people believe that NASA’S Perseverance Rover does all of the tasks above, which is true. NASA’S Perseverance Rover is continually studying the planet Mars and collecting data in many different forms.
The next poll results show some varied answers, the most votes have been collected for 687 days, with 13 votes for that category. The length of one Mars year is indeed 687 days. I was particularly surprised when I saw the results to see that no one had voted for 365 days, which is the length of one earth year.
This result was purely based on personal opinion, So I was most interested in finding out the results of the poll below. I plan to base the colours of my final piece around the results. The results show that out of the 9 possible options everybody voted in either the colour red or orange. 15 votes for red and 9 votes for orange. I was expecting slightly more votes for red as Mars can be known as the red planet.
The results for the poll below are quite split between Rocky, Desert and Marsh. The most votes are in the category for Rocky, which is the terrain of Mars.
For the next poll out of 5 categories there has been vote in four of them. In respect of 2 moons there has been 17 votes, for 4 moons there has been 3 votes, in 3 there has been 3 votes and for 1 there has been only 1 vote. Unlike earth Mars has two Moons.
In all 4 categories below there has been votes, in the 3 separate categories 842,000 , 635,000 and 456,000 there is 7 votes in each and 3 votes for 200,000. Mars has at least 635,000 impact craters. I plan to create quite a few varied sized Suffolk Puffs to act as craters on my Mars themed final piece.
I found the results of the next poll quite surprising as I did not expect as many people to have seen a space themed garment before. Out of the 24 votes I had, 20 people said yes, with only 4 people saying no.
The results on the final poll below, where quite expected. I had votes in all three categories but the majority of vote were in Maybe, with 16 votes. As with any garment you don’t know whether you would like it or even wear it until you have seen what it looks like.
I plan to use my results and findings to support my project and visually through my final piece.
I decided to watch ‘The Martian’ movie based on an astronaut who gets left on Mars. I have watched this film before and I decided to watch it again as it gave me quite realistic understanding of what the planet Mars is like, the colour of the planet, what the surface is like and the conditions on the planet.
I hope to take inspiration from the movie featuring Mars when creating and designing my final piece.
There also appeared to be one of Chesley bonestell’s paintings in one scene, this looked like a piece called ‘Saturn as seen from Titan’.
These photos below are photos of Suffolk Puffs I sewed for my final GCSE project. I think the Suffolk Puffs that I plan to make for my garment will be most like the top left Suffolk Puff, which is light blue with a piece of pink felt that has been stuck inside using Bondaweb. I plan to add various sizes of Suffolk Puffs onto my garment to represent the craters on the planet Mars. Supposedly there is at least “635,000” impact creators on the planet Mars.
I then decided to then create a moodboard from a combination of them and my own photos of the Suffolk Puffs I created at GCSE to further visualise my ideas.
At GCSE I studied Ruth Singer, who is a textile artist. I own Ruth’s book called Fabric Manipulation – 150 creative sewing techniques, where she shows through diagrams with supporting annotations how to make Suffolk Puffs, I still use the book to refer to and remind myself of how to make Suffolk Puffs. I recently went back to it when sewing my own Suffolk Puffs from calico for my samples for this project.
Ruth Singer created a “Circles coat” with a groups of people, made entirely from Suffolk’s Puffs, 500 in total. This coat is very creative and very colourful, this piece particularly inspires me because it is using Suffolk Puffs to create a garment and I plan to put them on my garment.
I am currently completing a fashion project around the theme of Mars and I need to collect some primary research and would really appreciate anyone who can complete the survey, which will support my project, thank you.
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