Dun dun duuuuuunnnn.....

Final collections are all complete! WOOH! I've spent most of the day in the print room, freezing, gluing stuff to foil so I can finish them...

Anyways, here are my Embroidery ones:

These were done on cotton sateen (apart from the first one, that was some kind of wool that wasn't very nice to use) and have been done using various hand and machine stitches as well as some applique and dyeing.

And my printed ones:

These were done on habotai silk and cotton sateen using various procion and acid pastes, discharge pastes, pigments and some foiling. (The first 4 are silk and just look so nice, I think I have a slight obsession with silk - I did loads of work in AS Level with it too)

 

 I know they're a bit small but I think if you click them they get bigger and you can have a proper look. If they dont and you really want to see some more detail then just say and I can put them up big!

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^^Thats cos I've been a busy little bee :) I did another 2 prints - one on silk and one on cotton! One... well, one went quite wrong cos I didn't make the dye paste dark enough so it hasn't printed but I'm gonna go over it tomorrow and the other one is this! I quite like it...

The fabric dyed with this gorgeous texture where the dye had gone a bit weird (not sure why) but it needed leaves on it to go with the effect. I used procions and acids in blues and purples printed onto silk. I'm also going to pick out some areas in irridescent and blue foils so I'm quite excited about that!

First final print!

And, I've done a print for my final collection! How organised am I :)  (I'm just not mentioning that some people have got loads more prints done that I think look better so shhhh) All the fabrics I dyed today came out really pale so I've decided that can be my theme and if we had to name our collections my print one would be 'Dream a Little Dream of Me' cos the colours are all blues/purples and they look all dream-like.

This one turned out so much paler that I thought it would and my camera - awesome though it is - couldn't focus on it cos everything was so pale! So I've just got a few close ups to give you the general impression. I dyed the fabric Bright Blue (but it came out pale purple...?) and printed with discharge, steamed it to fix, then printed with blue procion paste and steamed to fix. And somehow I was at college till 9pm doing this... Not entirely sure how it took about 8 hours but still, I quite like it :)

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.