Fashion Embroidery & Stitch show in March 2012!

I received such a good phone call yesterday!!! It was about Madeira, having received my sponsorship report from my final major project they have asked me to exhibit with them in March, I couldn't believe it!! I obviously said yes so I will now have my own space in the Fashion Embroidery & Stitch Show which is in Birmingham from Tuesday 22nd - Sunday 25th March.
It is just what I needed, it will definitely motivate me to update my portfolio, although over Christmas I have been working on producing more commercial designs for my portfolio and I have around 30 digital designs using techniques and processes that I picked up from my placements, focusing on repeats for fashion fabrics. I now want to get some of these printed on to fabric so I can add embroidery and embellishment to them!

I spent ages on my report, describing my process from concept to finish and evaluating each of my final pieces, with materials and processes I used. After I had my report bound, I printed the front cover onto fabric and sewed into and added embellishments.

Busy Busy!!

I am starting to wish that Uni was open on a Saturday!! But as you can see I have made my self quite comfortable at home!

I have started sampling over some of my screen printed fabrics too, just trying different materials together and colours.

I have appliqued down some of my tartan screen print too, if I only use it in small amounts I think it could have a nice effect!

Sequin Experiments...

I want to do 3D embellishments on my garments, so after doing a bit of research this morning I have been playing around with different orders and combinations of sequins and bugle beads trying to get them to stand up from the fabric.

I also painted some more nuts different colours and I am excited to start embroidering them, combined with the above.

Embellishments!

I want to combine sequins, beads and crystals..with metal objects, I have wanted to do this since writing my brief and I started collecting metal bits like washers, chain and beads, and I planned to spray them different colours but I had a little experiment today with paint and its worked out ok so far, but they are still wet.

Also... more embroidery on my first final piece...

I love the sequins and the way the light catches the metalic ones, I painted the rest of the length with dye last night so I can aim to finish this asap.



Embroidery Samples

After a few weeks of designing on photoshop, I have started printing out A3 samples of my designs to see how the colours would print out and how bright they would be after they were steamed. I'm really happy with the colours, they have came out really bright which is what I wanted!
The following images are of my fossil repeat, I want my samples to be heavily embellished and want to use a lot of different threads, sequins, beads and 'found' objects like screws and washers. I love these tiny 3mm sequins I have ordered from http://www.josyrose.com/, they are perfect for building up clusters or just adding small hints.