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I knew from the beginning that i wanted to use the fabric sample that i had made in digital stitch, but it didn’t fit in with my colour pallet and when i tried to incorporate it it just stuck out.

I tried different ways of editing the design in Photoshop and i came out with two outcomes. The first outcome i had  i really like as you could still see the detail of the stitches and that it was fabric however the colours weren’t exact so it still didn’t quite fit in properly. The second outcome had the exact colours so it worked well with my other designs but you lost some of the detail that was created from the stitches.

I used the sample that had the exact colour pallet on as it worked really well with my other designs.

Below you can see the original fabric sample and they the two edited pieces.

I was really struggling at the start to think of ideas of what to do for my boarder design, but after having a teams meeting with Maggie i realised that i could use my paper manipulation and turn it into a boarder design.

I have been really busy doing lots of paper manipulation so choosing my favourite section to transform was difficult. I want the boarder to be uniformed so i chose a section that i could repeat around the edge easily.

I think that this design would work well as a diary cover or maybe on a card with writing in the middle. Baring that in mind i them created a CAD Mock up of it to see where i was correct. Here is my design and the mock up.

This week has been a very busy week where i have been generating loads of patterns to try and complete my collection.

Monday was a very productive day where i created some patterns that i was really pleased with and feel that they work well with my other patterns. I made sure that all the colours were matching to my colour pallet so that the designs would all link and flow.

Tuesday i hit a bit of a brick wall with my collection as i just couldn’t work out how to integrate one of my fabric designs into my collection. I was also struggling with what to do for my final blender design. I had a tutorial with Helen and this then helped me clarify my ideas and i was able to envisage what i needed to do and how to get there.

Wednesday was another busy putting in to action all of my new ideas. I generated a few more patterns that i thought worked as blenders but there was still something that was bothering me. I decided to sleep on it and see what Thursday would bring.

Today I have finally finished my collection and I am very pleased with how it is looking. I feel that the transformation of what the collection looked like at the end of term 2 to now is massive. I have changed everything and learnt so much about myself and how i work.  I definitely need to take more time with what i am doing and be patient with the process, to keep working on things and not to be satisfied if i think something doesn’t quite work.

Attached are my final collection Boards

This week I really wanted to focus on my collection board that I have now named Lucky Gems. This board was miss matched and had too much going on, I kept three of the original patterns that I had made in part two which were based on gems but changed two of them from secondary patterns to blenders.

This left me with two secondary patterns and a bender pattern to make. I spent a long time making loads of different patterns in different colour combinations and layouts. This took me all week before I had finally come to a combination of patterns that I felt worked well together.

Bellow is my new Pattern Board – Lucky Gems

 

This is my digital portfolio showing my thought process though Project Two of Making Connections and my final outcomes.digital portfolio