Friday, November 13, 2009
The Textile module has come to an end. I've definitely enjoyed every bit of the module. Over the course of the module, we were taught these items:
We learnt embroidery using the Arista Sewing Machine. This is my first time exbroidering a picture onto a piece of cloth. It was quite time-consuming, due to the fact that I finally got this product after my 15th try! For embroidery, I personally feel that it is very important to use good quality threads. This will prevent breakage of threads halfway through the embroidering. After this experience, I am actually quite tempted to get my own embroidery machine with functions like these! $_$
This a box which has been applied with what we call a "napkin technique". It basically required pasting of different types of napkins of all shapes and sizes onto materials like wood, ceramic and even fabric! For our lesson, we were required to use wood. We first painted the box with 3 layers of paint. After which, we chose and decided on the napkins we wanted on our box and then pasted them on using a glue Potch. We waited about a week later before vanishing it to give it a shine!
This is a book cover which we sewed and painted. The main theme for this product was "butterflies". I didn't want to have a book cover with purely butterflies so I decided to give it a childish feel which was why I decided to add in the boy chasing after the butterflies as well the the 4-tier rainbow!
This is a handphone pouch which was sewn during one of the lessons. We were given a method list straight from a book which we later had to modify to make it better. It was an interesting experience because it showed that books may not always be 100% accurately and in-dept.
This is a picture of a flower using mostly scrap cloth on a piece of self-adhesive syrofoam board. When I first saw the teacher's sample, I was quite amazed by how beautiful it looked. The way Mrs Chia taught us this was very structured and so we all understood what we had to do. It was very important not to cut too deep into the self-adhesive syrofosm board as cutting too deep would have created a rift between the 2 affected parts. On the whole, this assignment was very fun to do, not to mention rather simple. This is definitely a great technique we can use for birthday and christmas gifts!
This is a tote bag which we sewed and then stencilled on. It was done basically by dapping small amounts of paint onto the fabric using stencils of different shapes and patterns. For this assignment, it was very important that we planned where we wanted to stencil the pictures on as not doing so would have created a mess.
This was done using "double-sided tape" for fabrics. The theme for this assignment was "bear". We were each given a picture of the same bear which we had to trace onto different scrap clothes to finally come up with this product. I decided to turn the bear into an athlete cos its my interest and I guess when you do something which are of interest to you, you willl tend to treasure it more. I guess this point can be taken note of when going out to schools to teach craft and tech in future. It will be very important to ensure that we teach students something which they have an interest in to create a form of ownership on the products they create.
This is a book cover which we sewed and painted. The main theme for this product was "butterflies". I didn't want to have a book cover with purely butterflies so I decided to give it a childish feel which was why I decided to add in the boy chasing after the butterflies as well the the 4-tier rainbow!
This is a handphone pouch which was sewn during one of the lessons. We were given a method list straight from a book which we later had to modify to make it better. It was an interesting experience because it showed that books may not always be 100% accurately and in-dept.
This is a picture of a flower using mostly scrap cloth on a piece of self-adhesive syrofoam board. When I first saw the teacher's sample, I was quite amazed by how beautiful it looked. The way Mrs Chia taught us this was very structured and so we all understood what we had to do. It was very important not to cut too deep into the self-adhesive syrofosm board as cutting too deep would have created a rift between the 2 affected parts. On the whole, this assignment was very fun to do, not to mention rather simple. This is definitely a great technique we can use for birthday and christmas gifts!
This is a tote bag which we sewed and then stencilled on. It was done basically by dapping small amounts of paint onto the fabric using stencils of different shapes and patterns. For this assignment, it was very important that we planned where we wanted to stencil the pictures on as not doing so would have created a mess.
This was done using "double-sided tape" for fabrics. The theme for this assignment was "bear". We were each given a picture of the same bear which we had to trace onto different scrap clothes to finally come up with this product. I decided to turn the bear into an athlete cos its my interest and I guess when you do something which are of interest to you, you willl tend to treasure it more. I guess this point can be taken note of when going out to schools to teach craft and tech in future. It will be very important to ensure that we teach students something which they have an interest in to create a form of ownership on the products they create.
*Claire
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