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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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