The Good and the Bad

I have now got around to photographing the fabric samples I have made so far as part of the HNC Stitch Textiles course. Some of the samples are good, some are so so and some are pretty bad but I thought I would include them all.

This first set of samples where the initial stage of gettting a number of ideas down at once based on the mood boards we created the first week.

I haven't included a picture of my mood baord but the pictures on it where largely in white and light naturel colours with some bright pink and dark purple.

A lot of the pictures where of clothes being modelled, some outside and some on the catwalk. I was particularly interested in the garment shapes and the way the fabric draped.

The first 2 pictures where a collage of ideas.


The third picture is some of the early fabric samples I made but have not incuded in my final choice of 8.

These 3 pieces combine fabric or lace with knitting. In the white sample the knitting has been added on top of the fabric whereas the 2 brown samples the lace has been knitted into the sample fabric.



The top left hand image is of another group of samples combining fabric and knitting. The knitting is worked by hand but they were inspired by some samples created by Iris Bishop, a very experianced and inventive machine knitter.

The right hand picture shows a sample of hand knitting, a sample of machine knitting with lycra and a couple of pieces of fabric that where pleated and dyed.

The bottom left hand picture is of a couple of pieces of hand knitting based on the patchwork/domino knitting technique and a piece of machine knitting using a cut float weaving technique.

Several samples led to more work and some of the samples included in the final eight.