I had made this ball by using green and purple felt. First I had to use some bubble wrap and roll it around like a ball, then I proceeded to cover the bubble wrap with the green felt that I had mentioned above. I had to dip the felt into warm water, and then I had to scrub the felt by using towels, so that I could dry the felt. I put the purple felt over the green felt and did the same thing, (though I'm pretty sure that I felted the materials first, and then I proceeded to put bubble wrap inside the ball, which, thinking back, was at first meant to be a heart) then I had to remove the bubble wrap out of the ball and even though it had a few holes, the ball managed to stay intact. Although I had thought that the ball looked ruined at first, my tutors have told me that the holes actually give the piece of felt a lot of charm and creativity, because the holes make it very interesting. In that case, I would have to agree with them, because in the end, it's actually not that bad as it is interesting to look at, and it will probably be something that other people will appreciate and give commentary to this felt ball someday.
Anyway let's talk about some of the other pieces of work that I have done in textiles.
I made this sewn portrait of myself, using one of the sewing machines in the textiles room. I had used blue and green sewing thread to draw the outline of my portrait, while also using a printed copy of a photograph of myself on the other side of the fabric, on top of a black fabric. To be fair, I had focused a bit more on the backside of the fabric with the black material, because I thought I was sewing my self portrait on the back. Anyway, I had also sewn on some blue fabric for my shirt, because one of the Tuesdays when I was doing textiles, I had been wearing one of my hoodies (which was blue by the way). I had also used brown felt for my hair, and sewn it through the other side of the fabric, because my tutors said that the lighter side of the self portrait was much better. I had actually used small fractions of the brown felt, put water on the felt and sewn it through the cloth while using styrofoam. I even had to tear of the photo of myself from the fabric, and only leave the little bits of, even if I was tempted to remove all the little bits of paper it was only going to end getting more fiddly the more I would have kept messing about with it.
During the next few weeks in textiles, I had been making a scarf by using two different coloured cloths, cutting them up into stripes, folding them into a pattern and adding in some threads and more cloth into the mix, once I had sewn the stripes together and cut of some the bits that I didn't need. I had borrowed some inspiration to make this scarf from some of fashion and architectural research that I had put into one of my college work books (the one on townscapes) and the scarf itself not only ended up looking like a skyscraper with street lights all over it, but some people thought that it looked a bit like a skirt/kilt which was not what I had initially intended. When wearing it however, it also looks a bit like something that people of Arabic or Pakistani ancestry would wear. The scarf was very time consuming to create, but in conclusion it was hard work that was well worth the effort that I had put into the scarf's creation.
Here are some pictures of myself wearing my scarf, making stiff poses from different perspectives. As far as I'm concerned, I think I may have pulled of the scarf very well if not decently. Unfortunately there's really no need for the background because it is distracting for the viewer to pay attention to the model that they are supposed to be looking at. The last picture of me turning my head over my shoulder is good, but again it would be better without the distracting background.
And here are some pictures featuring one of my classmates. My tutor had suggested that after I had taken all the pictures of myself wearing the scarf, I would need a female model to pose for me whilst I take a few pictures of her from different angles, as long as she was wearing my scarf. She managed to be a really good model, but I think the next time that she does poses for my photographs, she might need to create more lively poses to give my pictures a little bit more movement. However is an improvement from my last batch of photographs that featured myself wearing the scarf, as there are no distracting backgrounds for the to not pay any attention to the model, that is a bit of a huge step on my part, if you ask me.
Now to conclude this post, I would like to say that although creating all of those textile pieces was very time consuming, (especially the scarf!) it was all still a rather interesting endeavor, and I actually had a bit of fun with this project. I would like to thank all the tutors for helping me with this project, because without them, none of this would have been possible and I wouldn't have been able to finish some of this work by myself without their encouragement. So until next time, I will see you all when I publish another blog post.
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