Susie Brown's blog: 10/30/12

Here are some of my images from college.

I have been lucky enough to returned to education as a mature student to study fabric design. In the past have made my own clothes, knitted garments and altered clothes to make them up to date or look different. Always taken an interest in fashion, fabric and the construction of garments. Also attended a jewellery design and making course working in silver and gold and still wearing some of my pieces today but gave most of them away as presents ! Spent alot of time restoring old furniture for my home instead of buying new and had some unique stuff !!

Tuesday, 30 October 2012

The stitch squares in black and white

These are my machine stitched squares, sketch book and a drawing of my journey travelling on trains.

These squares have been stitched using the embroidery, tailor tack and pintuck feet. Loved working on these squares using the sewing machine. The problem is I have over worked some of my pieces it's a case of less is more !!

Two of these pieces are too fussy.....
I have decided to cut up a couple of my overworked squares and add them to my hand sewn squares.

Black and white picture squares

For this task we were asked to draw in black and white on paper squares and had only five minutes to complete each square. For the mark making we were given a sentence eg: a line walking across the paper. These are the photographs of my squares.

I quite enjoyed this task but would do things differently if I did the task again. As I had to interpret them into fabric...... would have more clean cut linear marks.