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.

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