26 November 2012

Foci design



    For a lecture called Forum for Critical Inquiry, I will do a presentation of my design on this Wednesday. The design is that I got inspiration from an object in the GSA's archive.
   We have visited the GSA's archive in the beginning of this month, and each of us chose an object to look into. Obviously it was quite hard to get information from very old object within only an hour, but I enjoyed it, because I could choose the one I liked. The object I have chosen is an embroidered bag(and a pincushion) made in Britain in the 17th century. 



From this object, I made a design for children's crafts.
I translated the motives of a bird and flowers as simple as possible.


The design could be applied for children's crafts, such as cross stitching and HAMA beads.













Stitch by Stitch 8

making developed samples



I found this tiny weird thing at the knit workshop...look forward to knitting too :)


25 November 2012

23 November 2012

22 November 2012

19 November 2012

Stitch by Stitch 4

machine embroidery



pin tuck stitch


 famous designers have a reason for their fame... they are amazing!!!

Christian Dior Fall 2011 CTR





Valentino Spring 2012 CTR






Valentino Fall 2012 CTR







16 November 2012

Stitch by Stitch 2


square smocking 



french knot stitch

speckling stitch

machine embroidery


pile


13 November 2012