Gathering the pieces I have created on project 3 and reflecting on them I thought there was a room for further improvement in order to be more happy with the outcome .

I wanted to give more texture in certain surfaces and in order to achieve that I looked back on a previous experiment I worked on project 2.

In that specific case I had wrapped coins with yarn on a piece of own knitted fabric.

I was really happy with the result , but because the coins were heavy I wanted to take them out and I had cut the area around them which had created a nice circular motif.

Following this idea I had sourced lightweight buttons along with a nice pink sequin yarn as well as a thick wire .

I had hanged my fabric collection in order to be able to have a better overview of my collection as well as I was able to see how the garment on each sample was draping as it was hanging free.

PIECE #1

I’ve used my buttons in order to run a continuous single yarn so it is not glued onto my sample.

It has been used to pull set-loose certain areas as well as to distort them.

PIECE#2#

Sample number 2 includes my coin inspiration piece with the cutouts been placed on the side of a tea dyed fabric surface, with a stiff and solid wire in addition of the embellishment and the the garment deformation playing the ”exoskeleton” role as it is keeping the fabric still and steady.

PIECE#3

My Sunflower pot with organza and a 10 gauge floral jacquard background.

PIECE#4

Hand embroidered 5 gauge tulip buds along with tape yarn and lace with the buttons been individually wrapped this time .

PIECE#5

Sunflower finger knitted bouquet , with the button wrapping formations creating a rectangular frame .

PIECE#6

Various fabrics layering with warm glue mark making.

PIECE#7

I have managed to feed the solid wire through my black band channel and then I had run it around the garment in order to pleat the band and stabilize the brushed fabric a lot more.

PIECE#8

My fern design.

Because of the fabric layout it wasn’t very stable on the hanger .

I had used buttons to distort the right bottom corner having wrapped long sequin threads .

This is where it concludes.

Building my own collection was a journey which had started in a mainstream way but then it had taken off to be a very personal piece of effort,a wonderful encounter, a stressful initially but relieving eventually experience.

Working on my own knitted fabrics gave me more connection and meaning to my study and using them as surfaces to build onto , thinking out of the box and re inventing them gave me a very useful experience.

Hope in the future I will be able to work towards this direction a lot more and be able to learn and work on more exciting projects.