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Creativity & Design Blog 74/14/2018 Problem Statement My problem is that I need a project for this class, but I don't want to overload myself with work by biting off more than I can chew. Planned Approach At first, I thought my problem was that I don't know how to embroider. As I wrote the long proposal, I realized that the problem was less about my ability to embroider and more about my mental health as I finish college. When I began the actual embroidery process, I assumed that using white charcoal transfer paper would be the perfect way to get my design onto the black fabric so I can hammer out the embroidery. Upon attempting to embroider, I found out that the force of the needle and thread going through the fabric displaced the charcoal on the fabric and as I embroidered, I slowly lost the design. Creative Strategies Upon relaying my roadblock to the class, Marissa helpfully suggested I use fabric stabilizer. This kind of in-class collaboration helped me find a solution that will hopefully help me finally get through embroidering this design. I bought water-soluble stabilizer so that once I'm finished embroidering, I can soak it in water and the only thing left will be the fabric and thread. I still used the transfer paper and I will have to see this week if I need to trace the design from the transfer with a marker so that the charcoal doesn't fall off while I embroider like it did with the fabric. We'll see. Below is a video I compiled of Boomerangs, an Instagram feature that records a 1-second video and makes it go forward and back. Below are images as follows: the original attempt that I started embroidering in which the charcoal transfer is very faded, the transfer onto the stabilizer, and the key for thread thickness that I made last semester when I originally used this design for an Intaglio print. Reflection
I can't wait to see if the stabilizer works out. I really wanna get going on finishing this project. One of the biggest issues I had this week was creating enough content to satisfy the requirements of the blog post. It was frustrating to have to think of a way to make a video of my work, which goes against the parameters of my proposal. I had to take extra time to edit it and such in the middle of my day, which was inconvenient and stressful and fails to solve my problem in the first place.
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Creativity & Design Blog Post #54/7/2018 This week, I started my final project. This blog includes the process of transferring my design onto the fabric so I have a template to follow when I embroider. Creative Strategies The biggest strategy that I used this week was planning and pre-visualizing my process. This was largely because I was filming myself and wanted to depict everything that I was doing. I made a list of the steps to follow in my video and had to redo some actions so that they were clear on the video. Creative Process Below is the video I took while transferring the design. It includes supplies and me tracing the design onto the fabric. In the spirit of keeping this project manageable, I am using a design that I made last semester. I created this illustration for an intaglio print for my printmaking class. I think it will translate great to embroidery. I used white transfer paper since my fabric is black. Below is the transfer. I had two issues with this. One had to do with the video and one with the actual process of transferring the design. First, I have never recorded myself in real life doing art, so I had to figure out angles. At first, I forgot to put the camera to my left. Since I'm right-handed, you wouldn't be able to see what I'm doing with the camera on the right. That's why part way through my video the camera angle changes because I realized this. I was further constrained by my space. Due to the height of the table I was using, I couldn't get as high an angle as I wanted. Also the fluorescent lights I was under can be seen in the video as a series of thick stripes moving through the image. Next, it's not that easy to draw on fabric in a hoop. The hoop raises the fabric off the table, so it's hard to get a solid push on it with the pencil. To mitigate this, I tried putting the fabric over a bowl. This only helped to a degree, though, because the bowl was smaller than the hoop, which meant I had to move it around. Also, as you can see in the image above, the edge of the bowl got transferred onto the fabric. That's not such a big deal, though.
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