Category: Unit 6 + 7

In today’s lesson we learned how to make pattern magic boxes that we could add to garments to give them a unique touch.

I think that my boxes went very well as they looked as they were meant to I wasn’t able to do one of the more technical boxes though as it just wouldn’t work for me. I tried it a couple of times but I couldn’t get it to fold out like it was meant to.

I can’t find the picture of my boxes on the bodice unfortunately, but I had one on the right front side of the bodice and the other two on the right side of the bodice to make it look like the two had turned into one as you turned.

In today’s lesson I created fashion illustrations ready for when I make my actual piece on Monday, I asked my class mates which one of my designs they thought that I should do. Everyone only voted for design 1 version 4 so I will be making that one as it is the most popular. Unfortunately I’m not very good at drawing hence the weird looking illustrations below but the design that I will be using has Julian Roberts circle technique on the left leg and left arm. I have also used a Shingo Sato technique on the tee to create a unique design.

Shingo Sato is an innovative pattern maker and designer. She is one of the leading figures of a new movement in the fashion industry.

TR cutting is a form of origami pattern cutting which turns into immediate 3D creations.

Subtraction cutting is when a pattern that is cut doesn’t represent a garments outward shape and instead shows off the negative space within the garment.This image shows off a piece of Julia Roberts work.

I think that me and Ryan worked as a team extremely well, I personally contributed all of the unpicking of the garments and I helped with the designing of our final piece as well. Our outcome was very successful as it came out exactly as we wanted it to and we had barely any waste left over. Next time I would try and switch up our roles a little bit more so that Ryan would do some unpicking and I would do some sewing. All of our garments work perfectly, our face mask works just like the branded ones on the market and our bag works perfectly as well. We were extremely close to achieving a zero waste outcome, we probably could’ve fitted the extra little bits into our bag but it was already very full and we didn’t want to unzip it again just in case the stuff flew out everywhere. I think that we presented our project very well. Ryan took the lead and explained everything then I went over anything that he had missed.

We will show off all the different elements of our outfit including the small details that our peers might have missed.

We will speak about the process of making the upcycled garments and explain how we used each other’s strengths to maximise the amount of work getting done.

We have met the brief as we barely have any waste left over as we used it as filling for our bag.This is our leftover waste from the project.

In my group it was just me and my partner Ryan and therefore we didn’t have as many people as the other groups did. To stop this from putting us behind we focused on each other’s strengths. I was much faster at unpicking than Ryan and he was much faster at pinning and sewing than I was. As soon as I finished unpicking a part of the garment he would sew it onto our final piece and then by the time he’d finished that bit I’d have the next bit ready for him. This turned out to be a very good strategy as we were able to easily finish in the time given with the design that we wanted.

Zero Waste is a set of principles focused on waste prevention that encourages the redesign of resource life cycles soap that all products are reused.

Their goal is for no trash to be sent to landfills, incinerators or the ocean.

The benefits of zero waste is a cleaner planet and if everyone joins in no trash will be wasted.

Tess Whitfort is an Australian zero waste designer. She owns an upcycling company in Hong Kong called R Collective.She also won the 2018 Redress design award.