Final Projects

I was gonna mention this in my previous post but there's too much already so decided to seperate it. So I just finished my second term of college and final project was taking way too much of my sleep (textile final project specifically). We had final projects for each subject but textile and sewing final project were the most exciting (but exhausting). We also had to compile our drawing assignments into a fashion journal and I will post it as soon as I receive it back from my lecturer.

For the textile final project we were supposed to design a minimum of 1x1 meters of fabric using a minimum of 2 techniques. We can choose beading, embroidery, knitting, dyeing, painting, or any other techniques. We were asked to design 3 fabrics and the lecturer chose one of them and we had to go back and forth to her and she was supposed to make a few changes and we had to sort of consult the materials and all that. 

So this is where I went wrong. I chose dyeing, knitting, and full embroidery on a huge ass fabric. Obviously I didn't know how long it would take for me to finish it, I was just designing it for the sake of finishing it (due to the very tight deadline). The theme for this project was "earthed", which means we had to create a design using the colors in the color chart that was given to us. 

One of the few pages of the color ranges

My moodboard; inspired by the ocean

The final result and I also included a 10x10cm technique swatch. I was losing so much sleep doing this project cause the techniques that I used were very tideous and look how much fabric I have to cover. But it was all worth it cause the lecturer chose a few designs from the students to display at the open house and I was one of them so I'm kinda happy about that. 

Next is just my final dress project that got me stressed out the first few days after I designed it. We had a whole day just to design a dress, and the requirement was that it had to have sleeves and a collar on our design, and the rest was really up to us. So we basically spent the whole day sketching and going back and forth to our lecturer to get approval from her, then we could start drafting the patterns. It was difficult for me to get her approval so I ended up designing something I wasn't even sure I was able to make. But long story short I figured it out.

I used linen, faux suede and a name of a fabric I can't remember that is supposed to be made for pants but I was too lazy to buy another fabric so I used it instead and it worked out just fine.