Final Floral Collection

Here's some images of the final outcome from the floral project.  Quite a few of them were chosen by WGSN for their website so keep an eye out!

Final Year Autumn Term

Here's some work in progress from the first project of my final year.  I'm finally delving into the wonderful world of florals and have been surrounded by flowers and drawing them for the last few weeks.  (It is a fun life being a textiles student sometimes!)  To the left is a picture of my little workspace at college.  I've been looking a lot at William Morris and vintage fabrics which has made me come up with some quite wallpaper-like patterns...not so useful considering it's another fashion project..so I'm trying to redirect my research to help me come up with some slightly more fashion like prints!

Inspiration/mood: free, flowing, soft, dry grass-like, hand-drawn, unfinished, country air, sun rays, vintage, formal pattern, excessive, exuberant, warm.

Here are a few of the designs ready to be sent of to print on Monday.  As you can see my obsession with birds still means I manage to include birds in nearly every one of my projects! 

And here's a few more! Accidently very William Morris...

This print was inspired by the covers of dusty old books, and the borders or pictures and titles in aan old book of Wordsworth's poems.

Season changes, spring and autumn

Garden birds

Love from Paris!
This photo is in honour of the end to our project by taking our work to Indigo at Premieire Vision in Paris 2010!

Muse

Thought I would share a bit of recent work with you from my Muse project! For this project I chose to use William Wordsworth's life and poetry as inspiration for these prints.

This print was deceivingly time consuming but I'm pretty happy with the overall result!

Growing letters-this print is inspired by Wordsworth's love of using words to express the world around him.

I wandered lonely as a cloud...

This print is probably one of my favourite, especially as it took the longest to make! The fabric is made from hand cut pieces of scrap leather and embroidery on a printed background.

When holding the fabric up to the light I really liked how the light shone through it leaving the silhouette of the birds and embroidered leaves.