Now that I am settling into third year I thought I'd give you a little insight into one of the projects I am doing at the moment. It is a very personal project and I am really enjoying it. This project is called 'HERITAGE heirloom'.
A question we have been told to consider is:
How do you begin to develop a textile which will be an item treasured in years to come?
After researching and considering my options and the various things that personally inspire me, I have decided to base this project on my garden. I am inspired by nature and textures and my garden holds a beautiful variation of these inspirations. Because I am so far from home up here in Edinburgh, I haven't been able to pop home to collect images and draw so I have had to make do with the images I have go on my laptop. Luckily I have a wide range of images that I have taken over the years.
These are two moodboards with collected images for inspiration from around the garden.
I collected a piece of bark to see if I could create a texture inspired from it.
What I have decided to create is a bed spread for my parents bedroom. There is more to it then just this though as I am going to have 3 sections each representing the three children. One for myself, one for my twin brother, Max and one for my younger sister, Daisy. I would love to create something that can be taken apart and rejoined, so that one day when we leave home and start up our own families we can take away our section and add to it.
After giving out a questionnaire to both my siblings and parents, it gave me an idea as to what images I will place onto the large piece of fabric I intend to make. This piece of fabric will be 4 feet by 4 feet 6.
A colour palette I found on pinterest that is similar to the colours I want to create and that will complement the colour theme of my parents room. I just had to add this image into the blog post as I think its absolutely beautiful.
These are images of me experimenting with the composition for my quilt. Its completely different working at this scale but its a really good lesson and makes it come alive. I've really enjoyed doing this.
Here is an insight into some of my sketchbook pages.
The long process of dying begins!
Initially I was trying to get a grey, but as I have discovered grey is not all that easy to get. Every recipe I created seemed to turn blue, although fortunately the blues that seemed to appear are in my colour palette anyway, so all is good.
I have used a cold water procion dye bath which takes up to at least 2 to 3 hours but if you are clever with your time then that isn't a problem.
After discovering how ambitious it was to get a grey with the dying, I decided to give desperse dying a go which is a dye you create with water and different coloured powders. This liquid can then be transferred onto paper, for example, with a brush and then it is put into the heat press for 40 seconds and there we go, that its. So a lot quicker than dying but for me, there is something special about dying up your own fabrics. So I will continue to use dye baths.
Again, the grey I was intending to get kept going blue. So I have settled with a bluey grey.
Now I am starting to think about different techniques. My piece will have a combination of dying, printing, appliqué, cut work and embroidery.
I will be back soon to show you my progress. The next post will be about my Creative Kitchen Comforts personal project. See you soon!
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