Week Five. 17th March.

As the print room was so quiet this week, I was able to print and steam four large lengths of fabric. With these I began to pin dress shapes on a mannequin to get an idea of how to use these fabrics. I liked the first shape, the use of quite intricate pleats gave a lovely shape to the garment, but I was not too keen on the print itself: it ended up looking like a very colourful zebra print.









However, I was happy with the dress shape: the pattern can be rectified, as a tester this was successful.

I bought some embroidery threads, I was keen to buy undyed threads and dye them myself, but then I found some lovely, almost metallic threads which worked beautifully with the design. I began to hand embroider a pattern onto the bust of the dress shape. This was sucessful and I was also happy because it is a way of including a more structured pattern into these prints, without it looking forced or unnatural.