First Year - First Semester Knitting Work (October - December 2008)

"SHINE A LIGHT"

Drawings from visual sessions with objects on projections with lighting and a chair with silhouetted objects. I have been using graphite stick and black ink that it worked together so well together! Continuous line drawings are my favourite type of drawing that I am not afraid to put it on paper and also it made me feel so relaxed and focusing on one particular bit of the object that I was observing at. Also, I had to choose my own colour theme for this project.


This one just made of varied of circles joint together. I just done circles to learn how to make circles with the knitting machine. The pressing was not brilliant and just iron it normally. I should have know of what to do with the steam press if I did know of where the sheds were. But, it was my first attempt of doing knitting.

This one looked alright. I only tried to do lace holes that I have not gained enough experience to do so! The problem was also that the yarns were so thin that I really have to be very careful when knitting with very thin yarns that it could come off of the machine and I really didn't have the concentration for it too. But, knitted interiors that it did not amused me at all.
That one that I just done it all in varied of black yarns. Thick and thin stripes of black and attached with three circles. I liked it but, if steam pressed that would be a better looking sample. It could be ideal for displays on walls and also for table and chair cloths. It could be a decorative trims for curtains and door covers too. I preferred this sample for knitted sample.

I just knitted the background first in black in normal knit technique. I produced the small squares and the two circles in thick brown yarn, then I hand-sewn onto the black knitted fabric yarn. It looked like an ancient scroll that the Romans had in the past. But, it would not be ideal for any interior functions such as wallpapers, table cloths and carpets. It would be ideal for decorative side of interiors, such as a wall display or an artwork.

I just wanted to use black only for the sample and made some varied lace holes along with different ladder ridges in the sample that should not have been there, but it looked brilliant itself. I just want to experiment with different ideas alongside of the sample.

This one is almost the same from the very first one, but only done it in a block repeat and done it in 2 columns and 3 rows. It does not looked so accurate, but it would be ideal for a table cloth like a saucer for plates, cups and bowls.

First Year - First Semester Printing Work (October - December 2008)

MORNING COFFEE

I have to collect things which were relating to MORNING COFFEE. The theme was alright, but I wished that I could get MORNING or AFTERNOON TEA that I do not drink coffee at all and it was a waste of money to buy of what things you (I) don’t drink or eat. But, I had some help from my classmates that who were doing MORNING COFFEE made things easier for me. I produced the biscuits, spoon, the coffee maker pot, coffee mate and the mug. I would have done TEA other than coffee. I am very aware of coffee, but it was alright for the project anyway.

This is my first print sample of the MORNING COFFEE. The red stripes to make my sample more interiors side of my work and also with the brown print of the morning coffee biscuits along with the dots and the spoon pattern that I think that it worked very well on the fabric that it could be an excellent sample for my interiors side of textiles.

I decided to do the big pink dots in the background to make it more interior side of the work. I really liked the rainbow printed colours. I am a big fan of it! It is my trademark. I really want to do more of it but it would make it surreal of the theme and the chosen colours too. I have chosen these colours that they are realistic and relating to the products that I have been using. I could have done it in my own steady pace but I was rushed up and wanted to get it done with. I really want to do another theme similar to this other than coffee. I really don't mind doing it again. But, it was just coffee putted me off very much that I really don't want to get things for the project and I could have got Morning or Afternoon Tea.

For this one that I have done a biscuit border to make it more artwork other than an original print. I limited the objects and kept it related to each other to the theme. I putted the coffee mate on the middle left of the work that to keep the theme related, then the espresso pot top right and the mug on the bottom right within the red stitched border inside the biscuit border that looked like more Chinese theme type because Red is the lucky and traditional colour for the Chinese culture. If I had more time that I could have done a better version of this original one.

The brown print worked so well that I done it again but onto yellow spots. Also, I applied two lines of stitching to make it more like a wallpaper interior type. But, the right one looked bit rushed and dodgy too. If, I had time again, it would be different and more lively too. It would be worked as a table cloth, an oven glove or even a carpet design for buildings. The yellow looked a bit bright or too strong for the sample, but it could be better for something else.

It's quite similar to the other sample, but had some lines missing and applied with embroidery on it to make it more interior side. The embroidery on the spoons looked bit dodgy because the tension of the stitching looked loose and made it messed up again. Also, it was the fabric was bit stretchy that caused it. I would like to experimented it and it turned out well.

For the final sample, it was so long and I wanted to try out different repeat patterns with the images I produced on my screen and drew in my visual study sessions. As you can see, that I produced different number of black bold lines to separate the imagery to its own repeat image. I done the Coffee Mate in a brick repeat, red and brown print that it worked so well together. For the yellow spoons that I have done a symmetry diagonal pattern that it looked symmetrised but, done it in an interesting way. Block repeat mug that should be kept simple and finally the Morning Coffee biscuits that I varied with all the colours together for that sample that looked quite appealing and unique that I enjoyed doing and would like to take it forward for further projects.

"I enjoyed the project, but if it wasn't for the Coffee side of it, I could have done it more better and if I was on the job, I would have produced more presented samples and neaten edges of my work. It was only a month project to get things started for the next project and for the chosen specialism."

First Year - First Semester Weaving Work (October - December 2008)

It was only the beginning of a new life and work for me. I was nervous and excited to get started with my work. For this semester was to try and experiment with machinery, looms and equipment with weave, print and knit. It was Interior Textiles that I was started at. I was in Group B, started with Weave first. It was brilliant and also very new to me that I have used a hand machine loom. It was quite logical and also enjoyable that I felt like I was playing with the piano, like the shafts were the black keys and threading the weft through the warp like a stringed piano.

The weave project was to use objects such as scissors, spoons and string. I was being asked to draw them and made it into simple forms or interpret them into simple shapes that I thought that it wasn't easy that I should have thought of that.

This one on the left that I have done some markmaking and just drew various of objects and done some different compositions with masking tape to varied the angle and rotated drawings. I've chosen London Bus, Cat Tongue Pink and Midnight Sky/Clear Night because I thought that these colours worked together very well and harmonised nicely.


The work sample on the right was flowers and the cross hatched interpretation of scissors. The pink background worked very well together that I thought that would be a good colour background for the dark colours to show out. The composition worked very well. The flowers are mixed with the 3 chosen colour palette and just slotted into the warp of the loom that it worked so well, but could have done it much better. It almost reminded me of the Union Jack Flag because of 3 colours and also it is nearly the interpretation of it too.

Flowers and Cross hatched scissors Sample.

"The Spoon Design"
This one is inspired by spoon handles. That I want to do something complicated that I know now how the loom works with the shafts. but, I really should have done it very simple shape that it is for interiors after all.

The middle black spot ruined the sample that I tried to put an isolated spoon in the space itself and it didn't turned out well. If it wasn't for that it could have been a great sample that it should not being messed up. The bottom 2 rows of spoon handles looked effective and quite unusual for weaving technique, but what I said before that I enjoyed it a lot when I do weaving. The pink and red harmonised well that the colours are complimented and tinted with each other (meaning red and white (tint) makes pink).

It made me feel so determined for my specialism and also my instincts about my future and career too that I am very keen to do weaving as my specialism when coming to Fashion Textiles that I really want to do, focusing on Fashion only with my designs.



The Scissors blade and honeycombe sample looks very interesting, but the fraying of the red yarn. It does not look like a professional sample, but I really like the effect that can bring texture to the work.

'The brick and reflected scissors blade effect'

Very interesting and quite illusive.

'The Honeycombe effect'

Wanting to bring back the basic weaving loom technique into my work that I want to create simple pattern with my own designs are borders. Honeycombe technique is really ideal and great for interior textiles.

'The symmetry scissors blade'
It looks like a tower, but interpretation of the closed blade scissors. It looks very effective.


"The Scissors sample"
The Midnight Sky/Clear Night scissors motif. Just trying with the layout with scissors and isolating different locations.

A row of scissors to finish off the sample. But, looks very squashed and also not layed out properly.

Isolated and chosen spot!
Not supposed to be there

Small row of scissors

Another row of scissors

Half spoon head design

Another row of scissors

Full scissors design, but looks like a key.

"The Cross scissors and spoon handle motif"

"Spoon Handle motif, Whole Spoon, 2 rows of spoon heads and the Weft Distorted Scissors design."

I want to take weaving forward to a new level for my projects that I really want to know more about weaving!