Sonntag, 23. März 2014

Chapter 5:
Picture 19:
This picture shows fabric manipulations with different stitches to hold the fabric. I have used three different stitches: fly stitch, double cross and sorbello stitch. The fabrics are velvet, satin, cotton, thin silk, linen, thick silk and organza.

Picture: 20
Wadded quilting: (2 samples)
This piece is quilted by machine. The three layers are: synthetic cotton, a thin layer fleece and a synthetic cotton.

Picture 21:
This is a sampler with different machine quilted patterns. The three layers are silk, polyester wadding and a stiff linen.

Pictures 22:
Shaped quilting:
I have used a shiny synthetic fabric for this sampler. The paddings are rings, cherry stones and matches. Quilting and stitching was done by hand.

Picture 23:
Padded quilting: The snake was stitched by hand to create a channel. The channel was filled by a thick cotton yarn. The space between the curves was filled with stippling quilting by hand. The other paddeds a filled with polyester. The upper side was than quilted by machine in meandering pattern. The lower part was done by hand in seed stitch.

Picture 24:
Corded quilting:
This corded quilting was made on a shiny synthetic fabric with twin needle and a woolen thread.


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Pictures 25, 26 and 27:
These samples show the different ways to make tucks, pleats and gathers. All these samples are made of thin and shiny synthetic fabrics. I have made parallel folds, filled tucks with fancy yarn and pipe cleaner, high tucks with several lines of stitching, tucks pressed flat and than stitched by zigzag, tucks  were sliced with a zigzag scissor, sliced tucks were fryed out, short length of tucks stitched straight and cross.

Picture 28:

Picture 29:
Picture 28 and 29 show samples of combination tucks all done by machine. Chequer board, backward facing tucks were cut in strips and re-arranged.


Picture 30:
Here are 4 samples of gathering techniques: long machine stitches
                                                                       zigzag stitches over elastic ribbon
                                                                       fancy machine stitch
                                                                       pulling wave threads



Picture 31:
More gathering techniques:
hand running stitches circulare
a tuck filled with a yarn and than moved in together
tiny pebbles were made by running stitches
a little piece of hand made decorate gather stitches


 
Chapter 7:
Picture 32:
Tactile contrasts:
A sampler of contrasting fabrics:
Nr 1:  different wide strips of thermolan -coiled up
Nr 2: free style coiled up scrim strip
Nr 3: velvet gathered to flowers
Nr 4: silk pieces folded together and formed to a packet, hold together with a cross stitch
Nr 5: a piece stramin folded to a flower
Nr 6: a piece of synthetic fabric pushed together to form undulations
Nr 7: the same as Nr 6 only made from cellophane paper
Nr 8: bias strips cut and than rolled up- cut off in different length
Nr 9: knotted strips of tricot
Nr 10: woven strips held down with simple knot and cross stitches
Nr 11: the same as Nr 6 and 7, the fabric is tulle
Nr 12: filled bubbles -running stitches around
Nr´13: a wide strip of jute- gathered in the middle


Samstag, 22. März 2014

Module 5, chapter 1:
Texture in landscape:
I collected photos from landscapes and objects. I had no great choice to make landscape pictures, because this winter we had too much snow. I found some pictures in my photo stock. So the next pictures show my selection:


Picture 1:
Snow-landscape in my garden. All contours are softened.


Picture 2:
A head of lettuce cut through.


Picture 3:
A close up of a fir cone.


Picture 4:
A part of a root of a tropical tree.

Picture 5:
A stack of wood in front of our house.


Picture 6:
A rose in my garden (winter).

Picture 7:
A plant in snow.

Picture 8:
A rock block.

Chapter 2:



Picture 9:
Paper relief investigations:
Different types of paper partly ripped into strips and partly folded in zigzag. I wrote the types of paper on the black cardboard.



Picture 10:
Paper test scrunched with different type of papers (11 kinds). Each paper has started as an A4 size and was scrunched down to fill the 1/9th section of an A4 sheet. At the bottom right I wrote the types of used papers.


Picture 11:
Manipulated tissue paper. Scrunched, bows with a knot, twisted strips and caned strips in curves.


Picture 12:
Another sample of different kinds of manipulated tissue paper. There is also to see a combination of two processes on the same piece of paper.

Picture 13:
4 samples of cattering manipulations from tissue paper.

Chapter 3:


Picture 14:
Texture and relief in paper. Here are two samples of the photos from chapter 1 picture 7 (plant in snow) and on the right site picture 2 (head of lattuce). The plant was made from long strips of twisted paper towel knotted and glued down. The lattuce was created from small strips of copy paper folded into irregular zigzag and glued down on corrugated and covered with white tissue paper.


Picture 15:
Snow landscape in my garden and a fir cone transformed into textures. Crunched paper balls were covered with a sheet of tissue paper.

Picture 16:
A stack of wood transformed  into paper texture with tracing paper.
My rock block was made from black corrugated paper. Before ripping it was covered with white tissue paper. The stripps were than glued down.

Picture 17:
The root of a tree was made from long strips of twisted kitchen towel.
The texture of the tree was made of big and small paper strips. I have use copy paper, translucent paper and tissue paper.

Chapter 4:


 
Picture 18:
Fabric investigations:
13 different types of fabrics. I tried to burn the edges of each piece, also to fray the bias edge of the fabrics.

Picture 19:
A closer look to the edges. I have used different fabrics to make exciting edges in different ways.