Pages

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

experiments...

I have been experiementing with different recycled materials that I have found laying about.  I also got some bamboo leaves from the garden to see how they could be used and manipulated.
Dried Bamboo leaves from the garden...
Dried Bamboo stalks and leaves...
Once I had collected the Bamboo I dried the leaves out over night and then 'folded' and 'weaved' 2 leaves together to see how they would work:-

 I like the texture that the result gave so have decided to add this to my mobile hanging.  I don't think it will work as well on the screen printed fabric though as I think it is a bit too delicate.
I also found some slippers (that came free from a hotel), an old woolen belt, some old ribbons, card and old swatches of fabric that I could use for my mobile hanging.  I have shaped all of the recycled materials in to a simple basic leaf ready to attached to my hanging.  I added some machine embroidery to some of the leaves that are made from old fabric swatches - this will help to add some texture and collour to my mobile hanging.
Old fabric swatch texturised with machine embroidery

Attaching my recycled 'leaves' to the woolen belt.
When this is finished this will be my mobile hanging.

Recycled card - adding another element to my mobile hanging.

An old hotel slipper that I have cut to be part of my mobile hanging.
My mobile is coming along quite well.  I am now going to concentrate on my fabric collection and start expanding my ideas some more.  I have about 3 or 4 ideas that I am happy with but I want to keep developing my ideas for my collection, as I feel that I would like to be able to offer a wider variety for my Eco-Friendly range.

So watch this space for my progress reports....

No comments:

Post a Comment