Thursday, 30 September 2010
Tailored Gloves
Working on a live brief...
The first three weeks of our extended research practises project involves working on a live brief, So we have a time limit and specific things that we have to do that are required each week.
This is the first time that we have specifically been asked to make a product rather than a garment, a lot of the influence in my research was towards prints and finger prints, so I decided to make gloves. I made up a quick sample... when I say quick it took me hours because it was so tricky to sew, anyway In the end I thought it wasn’t that bad, so I might as well try it out.
I have unpicked two different pairs of gloves to see how their made and have also used this as the basis of starting my pattern for my own gloves.
I managed to create a pattern yesterday, but I am not sure how well it is going to work, I think I may have just made parts up myself and don’t know if that’s actually the way that they are supposed to be made.
I really like the design though, but I need to find a way of adding tailoring techniques within it. I’ve never done anything tailored before so trying to add something in that you don’t really know anything about is really hard. I think I am going to try sewing some parts my hand and then having some padded sections and then adding in some piped seams and top stitching.
I am also struggling with ideas of how I can take this further, I am not sure where I want to take my ideas for the next part of the project, whether I just want to do gloves or carry it over into something else, I think I want to discuss this with my tutor to see what they think may be a good idea to take forward.
The first three weeks of our extended research practises project involves working on a live brief, So we have a time limit and specific things that we have to do that are required each week.
This is the first time that we have specifically been asked to make a product rather than a garment, a lot of the influence in my research was towards prints and finger prints, so I decided to make gloves. I made up a quick sample... when I say quick it took me hours because it was so tricky to sew, anyway In the end I thought it wasn’t that bad, so I might as well try it out.
I have unpicked two different pairs of gloves to see how their made and have also used this as the basis of starting my pattern for my own gloves.
I managed to create a pattern yesterday, but I am not sure how well it is going to work, I think I may have just made parts up myself and don’t know if that’s actually the way that they are supposed to be made.
I really like the design though, but I need to find a way of adding tailoring techniques within it. I’ve never done anything tailored before so trying to add something in that you don’t really know anything about is really hard. I think I am going to try sewing some parts my hand and then having some padded sections and then adding in some piped seams and top stitching.
I am also struggling with ideas of how I can take this further, I am not sure where I want to take my ideas for the next part of the project, whether I just want to do gloves or carry it over into something else, I think I want to discuss this with my tutor to see what they think may be a good idea to take forward.
Thursday, 23 September 2010
Third year..... arghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
So third year is definitely in full swing, it’s been three days since we had our first briefing, and I am feeling the pressure already.
I think that it takes a while to get back into the way of working and remembering how you put things together and make things look creative, and on top of that we have a week by week schedule where there are lots of things that need to be done.
It’s just going to be quite a lot of pressure this weekend especially, because it’s my birthday, and well you only turn 21 once, so I have friends visiting for that and then I am going to Michel Buble on Monday night as part of my birthday present, so for the deadline Tuesday it really doesn’t give me much time to get everything I want to get done finished.
I have decided that for the first part of this project I am going to make gloves. I sampled a glove last night by unpicking a pattern and trying to remake it by drawing it out again, for a first attempt I think it went pretty well, it was just quite fiddly trying to get the fingers sewn because they are so close together, but I think if I can work out a good pattern for my prototype it shouldn’t be too bad.
I managed to finally get some decent work and sheets done today, I have been really struggling translating my ideas from my head onto paper, but I think that I made a breakthrough today.
Hopefully this will be good enough for a decent design to come from, I’ll let you know how I get on!
I think that it takes a while to get back into the way of working and remembering how you put things together and make things look creative, and on top of that we have a week by week schedule where there are lots of things that need to be done.
It’s just going to be quite a lot of pressure this weekend especially, because it’s my birthday, and well you only turn 21 once, so I have friends visiting for that and then I am going to Michel Buble on Monday night as part of my birthday present, so for the deadline Tuesday it really doesn’t give me much time to get everything I want to get done finished.
I have decided that for the first part of this project I am going to make gloves. I sampled a glove last night by unpicking a pattern and trying to remake it by drawing it out again, for a first attempt I think it went pretty well, it was just quite fiddly trying to get the fingers sewn because they are so close together, but I think if I can work out a good pattern for my prototype it shouldn’t be too bad.
I managed to finally get some decent work and sheets done today, I have been really struggling translating my ideas from my head onto paper, but I think that I made a breakthrough today.
Hopefully this will be good enough for a decent design to come from, I’ll let you know how I get on!
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