on the cutting table....

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Love..LOve..LOVE the colours.More cushions on the way with these fabrics!


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All lined up and ready to sew.I'm having tremendous fun mixing and match all my prints and creating patchwork type cushions.


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Not a very good picture,but the lighter green one is actually on silk.I looove how the print turned out and I think it looks great as a cushion.I'm waiting to finish the entire range of cushions so that I can take nice pictures of them all made up and arranged in a pretty way...

So do keep popping back to my blog(if there is anyone out there who reads it!)and you'll see some exciting things...I promise;)

Newbies

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It feels good when you complete something you've been working on for a while...all those hours of designing,testing,printing,more printing,even more printing..and then finally you have...the fruit of your labour....

These are final prints for my second last project at uni...a collection of exclusive hand-printed textiles for interiors inspired by INDIA.

Its been a long an invlolved process with lots of learning and experimenting on the way..

I'm very happy with the final result.....

The fabrics will be made into lamps and some of it into cushions.I've also done a few prints to be stretched onto canvas...All prints are on 100% cotton on varying fabrics like cheese cloth,linen,duck and some linen/rayon blends.

Business - like

Now that I'm graduating...its time to start thiking of myself as a professional designer ahem!ahem!;)

So...I've designed my business preforma that I hope to carry out with throughout my design career...

Here is the final after a series of experimenting...I've tried to incorporate a stylish/sleek look that still has an organic feel to it..

I'm happy with it...any comments most welcome..:)

And yes..those screen print photos to follow soon...

SCREEN PRINT WOES:(

As much as I love the process I get so frustrated at time and even more when paying the price for someone else's mistake...hmmmpfff..

Today I planned to expose my screens..so..I hop into the exposure unit,do everything right,set my screen and artwork up,turn the vacuum on and shut the door BANG!turn the unit ON...

2 minutes later...the light goes off..so I hop in again and take my screen out and excitedly wash it off only to find that the the image wasn't fully exposed...AND GUESS WHY..."someone"changed the time on the unit to less that what it was meant to be and hence the partial exposure...

So...I had to re-strip,re-coat-re-expose..and phew!it worked(after I set the time right!)...what a relief..!!!

That said..I'm now ready to print!Wipee!oh-let's not forget colour matching and mixing...

Its going to be a long few hours....:)

Will bring in my camera next time and take pictures:)

cushion!!!

I think I'm going to call the design on this fabric LOVABLE:)

I really like how this fabric looks as a little pillow and I think my baby cousins bedroom will be its happy home;)

I'm loving sewing cushions and plan to make up a few more in the coming weeks with some of my own printed fabrics!

I'm no expert on sewing yet but I'd like to make bigger cushions and experiment with different sizes..shapes....piping...etc.etc.

Saturday morning design

This morning I woke up and sudddenly realised I'm meant to be making a thankyou card to give someone tomorrow...

So sat down with illustrator and scanned some drawings and decided to have a go at doing some SIMPLE patterns with simple shapes/motifs.

At uni we'r always being told to explore complex textile design techniques and I've never really had the chance to do some "non-complex"yet effective textile design...And especially after seeing the simple gorgeous patterns of the likes of Kirin&Co. and Hollabee...I came up with this design for the card...

Hope you'll like it..Feedback-positive or negative..most welcome:)

just something little...

some inspirational imagery and design....

I was blog shopping yet again and my search led my to this fab. website...and this particular page..do check it out..

http://www.organic-furnishings.co.uk/felt_panels/105/

Also found some exquisite wallpaper...

http://www.wallpaperdecor.com.au/

The pillow that I mentioned before is Done!Turned out alright:)

Pictures will be taken and posted a.s.a.p

and SEW It Seems;)

Yup,Its that time again whereI take to the sewing machine...I've said it before and I say it again..I am NOT yet a sewing person....However I seem to have connected with making cushions...and my next attemt will be using some of my own fabric that I printed digitally...How exciting..I've never really had anything made of my own designs..

Anyhow..I start this tomorrow..so praying it all goes well;)