Gift project

At the end of my 1st year we had a gift project. I based this on birds.

For this project I used Photoshop to develop my scans of some of my sketchbook pages. Quite a few different drawings were used in my clock piece.Where I used 12 different birds I had either machine stitched, French knotted, used oil pastels, wove, drawn or watercoloured.




I also used one of my birds in the card design below for this project as well. I'm sure you can work out which one!

My favourites from 1st year

In my 1st year of university doing textile design I created several different pieces; some of my favourites include my cushion, a scarf, a ruffled top, and a textured skirt.

For my project, that ended around Christmas 2011, I looked at leaves.


This picture shows the printed side of my cushion using screen print, foil, hand and machine stitching.

The back of my cushion was knitted and then attached using hand stitching.

  

During March 2012 for my knit project, I created a striped scarf (pictured opposite). I love this piece and still use it today!

Even though it is quite a simple design it took quite a long time to make, as I had to count the amount of lines for each stripe.

The two pictures below this one are of a ruffled top which uses hooking up techniques and a textured skirt where I have plaited the knit and added twisted material. Both of these were also created in March 2012.

Laura's Quilt

During the summer of 2011 I created a quilt for a baby in my home church.

As you can see I have stitched well known animals, namely a tortoise, duck, bunny, whale, pig and caterpillar.

The fabrics I used were purchased in Fashion and Fabrics, St. Albans. Below are some closeups of three of the animals. As you can see I have used contrasting colours for thread and material e.g. blue and yellow.


This quilt is now the property of Laura Grace Patrick - my god-daughter!

       

I sold a piece of work!!

After finishing my A levels I did an art foundation course for a year in my home town, St Albans.

I did this from September 2010 to June 2011.

 In about April/May 2011 I created a car dump piece, which used material, paper, sugar paper and paint. I used machine stitching to attach the material cars to the paper which I had already screen printed a car dump on to.

We  had an exhibition in a gallery in town at the exhibition, where someone offered £120 for it! 

It is currently in Germany.

 Below are some pictures; of the full piece, a zoomed in version of the top left-hand side and a zoomed in version of the right middle side.

Previous work

To start with I thought I would show you some of my favourite creations from when I first got into textiles.   

On the right is a felt pot I made as part of my AS textiles coursework during 2009. The whole pot took a day to create before adding the leaves and a machine stitched piece. Originally it was meant to be green but we turned it inside out as we preferred  the pink side.

 A graffiti inspired piece which uses felting, weaving, machine stitching and a plastic pocket. It was especially inspired by the works of Banksy.  This was my A Level art exam piece made in 2010.

A variety of beach inspired pieces using textiles; machine stitch, embroidery, felt and collage. Part of my A Level coursework.