Sampling Week 4

During this week i really enjoyed learning new techniques like hair pinning. I thought that hair pinning gave a really interesting effect to the fabric because i could use lots of the old and more interesting threads that i have gathered. I feel that it made my samples more textured and tactile. I also learned how to use the tailor tacking foot which i feel gave a more lose, scratchy effect to my work which i feel related more with my initial drawings. I also worked back into my samples by cutting through the stitches i had made using the hair pinning and tailor tacking techniques. This again made my work more tactile and more relative to my hand drawn work.

Sampling Week 3

This week i was introduced to the sewing machines and taught how to use the basic feet and stitches. I used a satin, straight and a zig zag stitch onto patterned fabrics to get the hang of using the machines. Through working on patterned fabric i was able to create more interesting samples using simple stitches by altering the stitch widths and lengths. I enjoyed using the sewing machines more throughout the week because i started getting the hang of how they worked and what i was able to create. I am looking forward to learning new techniques with different machine feet and stitches.