Unit X - Line of enquiry

 This is the first time I've work collaboratively but since the start of Unit X I feel I have learnt a lot about working within a team. Its made me think about respecting other peoples opinions more and how we can boost each others confidence. On the 1st April we had a peer review. From past experiences of doing these its helped tremendously. We went through the S.W.O.T process to help us analyse groups work more in depth, this stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It was great to see what other peers thought of our research as this can only help and extend our practice. 

In this weeks print room workshop we had a team talk of all the techniques we want to experiment with. We all decided that we really wanted to try the foiling technique as this is something we have been interested in from the first week. This process worked well and we defiantly want to develop this further. There was a few mishaps with the first foiling bit I did as I applied too much heat and caused the paper to burn. This is the first time we have all done this process and at that point it was just a case of trial and error. We also want to try process like flocking, puff and using glitter instead of the foil. We have booked a few extra sessions for the print room after the Easter holidays so we have the opportunity to do this.

Foiling with screens

 We've also decided as a team that we need to start thinking about garments and garment details. Its great that we are all on the same page in where we want to project to go and how playful we want to be within designing and making. In today's lesson be brought along all our unpicked garments and started to work on the mannequin and to think about draping and how we can create shape and a funky silhouette on the stand instead of flat pattern cutting. This was great, it gave us the chance to get a feel of working with different weight and thickness' of fabrics together. Some fabrics worked better with others but overall I think this gave us much more of an idea of what fabrics we want to work with when producing final garments. 

We also put together a plan of what we need to do over the Easter holidays. We need to underpin additional research in garment details and if we want any particular elements within the garments. We have a group message online now so its easier to share pictures and ideas better. We've decided that we are going to design garments over the holidays and then come back at the end April with the designs and pick out elements and details of each others work that we like and work well and decide on a final outcome.