To celebrate the end of the HND in Fashion and Textiles we were invited to take part in a fashion show at funky glasses designer Oscar and Fitch. Seeing all the glasses laid out was like being in a sw… more →
Knit, purl and stitchknitpurlandstitch wrote 6 months ago: To celebrate the end of the HND in Fashion and Textiles we were invited to take part in a fashion sh … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 6 months ago: It all came together over the last week or so… Here is my organza top complete with three chai … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 6 months ago: I finished my head piece this week. This involved sewing my sinamay strips of different widths into … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 7 months ago: Screen printing tests on Thursday, starting off with a test of the whole screen (white fabric paint … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 7 months ago: Harem trousers were on my mind this week in a big way. The pattern is looking pretty mad: The origin … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 7 months ago: Next week we will be screen printing our fabrics for the Full of Eastern Promise project, so this we … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 8 months ago: I found that I had got a wee bit overwhelmed with all the different strands of research that I had g … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 8 months ago: As I posted last week, I have been making lots of fabric roses over the last couple of weeks, linkin … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 8 months ago: Have been a wee bit slack with the blog recently, but have not been slacking on the Full of Eastern … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 8 months ago: On Thursday we had a college trip through to Glasgow to the Collins Gallery and their exhibition: Cr … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 9 months ago: Over the last two weeks I have been focusing on resolving the Identity Project before fully throwing … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 9 months ago: This week we were given our new brief for the rest of the course. Under the theme of ‘Full of … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 10 months ago: Week 17 of our course saw our garments being exhibited at Inverleith House at the Royal Botanical Ga … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 10 months ago: Just hours before leaving for the airport we were given the privilege of visiting Tarango. Tarango i … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 10 months ago: Perhaps the highlight of our trip, on the last day we were taken to Bibi Russell’s studio in D … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 10 months ago: On Friday (the weekend in the Muslim world) we were given a bit of a break from our busy schedule to … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 10 months ago: Later in the afternoon we were taken to the Bangladesh Jute Research Institute where scientists and … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 10 months ago: In stark contrast to the dark and noise of the cotton weaving factory we were then given a guided to … more →
knitpurlandstitch wrote 10 months ago: The next day we went to the Tangail Institute of Textiles where we were given a series of demonstrat … more →