Busy week

This week has been very exciting. Remember the vine piece I showed you that I said you'd have to use your imagination for? Well you wont have to any more! I spent all week rolling paper to make vines, painting them and attaching leaves so I could make this mock up...
My work bay (that I'd just cleaned) went from this...

...To this in about 10 seconds (that's it looking fairly clean for all the painting I did!)

 And it turned my hands into this

But I came out with all these beautiful vines that took up half the studio and made a bit of a mess of the floor but look really exciting when they're all put together

 What do you think?

#vines #fashion #accessory #dyes #workbay

The end is in sight...

My third and nearly final embroidery sample! The little cup at the bottom took me forever to do cos it's all hand sewn and I wanted to cry after I bondawebbed the leaf on cos the iron made an awful mark on it but it's not that noticable any more so yey. Don't have much to do on my other one either so that can be on here soon...

Print part one

Tra laaa... The print samples are dry and ironed (even though some don't look it, I don't think I let the iron heat up enough, I was too excited :) ) and here are some pics of my first attempt at printing!

  

This is an Acid dye (I think it was called Lemon Yellow...?) printed on a silk. It probably wasn't the best idea since you cant really see it on the white so I did some close ups for you of the best bits.

This is a Procion dye (Claret Red, very nice name) on a heavy cotton. This has come out a lot darker which is nice. Note to Self, dont use Yellow on White :)

These are Discharge Prints, you print onto already dyed fabric and the colour gets leaked out - like bleaching. I think the colour turned funny in some places - like my leaf on the black piece - because I didn't wash it out well enough (whops) but I really like the effect it left.

We can grow beards, if we want to...

Since it's been Movember and everyone has grown moustaches, I felt a little left out being unable to grow a face-warming friend. So I decided that we should have our own day where we drew moustaches on ourselves, proving that we girlies can grow beards if we want to.
We were looked at a little strange in lectures though...

(Kudos to The Spooky Men's Chorale for the inspiration for the awesome title!)

We all had a play with dyes too and thought we looked ridiculous so I thought I'd share the laughter... :)