Making my top.

Making my Garment.
This week has been really enjoyable. It has been really hands on and really hectic, but I have felt like I have really got somewhere and feel comfortable in the position that I am in.
This week we started making our garment. I spent most of my time unpicking my shirt, trousers and bag, to find the pieces that I wanted to use for it. I decided to use the shirt as a base, but I needed to make it so that the wearer could get the top off and on without any buttons and just pull it over the head. To do this I added a panel of material where the buttons would do up to make it larger and easier to get on.
I based my top on the idea of using the shapes of flower petals to create the shape of the top. Before I was using the flowers on a sting and using it to tie and wrap around the body, but it was too much like embellishment, so making the shapes larger and more exaggerated and using them to create the top was a lot more exciting.
My theme was tied and twisted but my top has not particularly ended up like that. I have developed my ideas further so my ideas have moved further away from where they started. I have used plaited material around the sleeves and on a back panel and as an embellishment on the front but that is as far as it goes.
I spent most of my time this week making my top, I really wanted to get it finished so I knew that it would be ready for the deadline and I could get it to a good standard.
I have also spent some time this week creating my pieces using Photoshop. At first I found it really hard to understand how to use the programme but I think now I have used it a bit I have started to get used to it. I have created some interesting pieces and am actually quite proud of what I have produced.
I have nearly finished my project now, which is quite a relief and I feel like a weight has been lifted. I worked really hard to get everything finished; there are just a few things that I need to finish off in my sketchbook, which I will complete in my last session on Tuesday.
I have also now completed my A4 photo with the theme ‘it fell from the sky’. I went into town and took some photos of some attractive buildings and scenes. My final photo that I chose was one of the sky and of the big clock tower on the town hall. I then took a photo of a balloon on a string and used Photoshop and placed it to it was in the sky. The day that I took the photos in town was quite a dull day so I had to brighten up the sky and make it bluer to make it look more cheery and appealing. I got my friend Christine to put on my top and took some photos of her as if she was holding the balloon. I then used one of the photos and cut her figure out of the picture and put it into my other piece. I got it so it looked like she was holding onto the balloon and falling down from the sky.
Doing this picture made me feel a lot more confident with the use of Photoshop and I was really happy with the final photo outcome. I am also very happy with my top now and overall very pleased with this project.