8th - 12th January - Creating my own pair of leggings !!

This week I had. A really interesting week, I learnt a lot of new skills but I found all of them really interesting and enjoyed them.

Over the weekend I had created a Moodboard for this project to help me understand my them and to generate some ideas. This is my Moodboard below ⬇️

Moving on with the pattern crazy assignment it was time to actually experiment with creating different experiments. The point of this is to then place into patterns styles to pick at the end my faviourite to use for my final garment.

I started off with doing some monoprinting as I knew this technique before and really enjoyed the abstract look it provides to the pice, I also like the texture th rink created on the paper. I used my primary research drawings to base my monoprinting drawings on, but to develop on from this I tried to be more free with my line markings, which allowed the experiments to come out really abstract relating back to my them of ID magazine well.

Overall, these where two of my faviourite drawings that came out because of their uniqueness and abstract look. I choose to develop these further by drawing into them with oil pastels and then placing them I nto repeated patterns .

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I then tried a new experiment called break down printing which is where you draw onto a mesh type board with some pastels and then place onto a piece of paper and then cover the board with a glue type of substance and scrape down the board. Leaving the drawing on your paper, I really enjoyed the process of this and seeing the results at the end. The only thing I didn't like very much about this technique was the grainy texture left behind and the fact there would be some colour missing in  parts which ruined the piece. I don't think I would be using this technique for my garment for those reasons.

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During my pattern cutting lessons I learnt how to sew a pair of leggings which I had been really looking forward to as I wanted to create a pair of trousers. These pair of leggings where based of our own personal body measurements which we had created a pattern piece for over the weekend.

Creating the pattern piece was a little tricky as there was so many steps but once I got through it I understood how to create one which I can now use in further garments and also base it off of other people body measurements as well not just my own. Actually sewing leggings I found quite easily and straight forward which surprised me as I thought It would of been more tricky then it was. Overall, if I was to do this again I would need to make the leggings shorter but besides that they do fit really nice.