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I've mostly been working on commission work this week so I thought I'd take a little bit of time to work on something for myself. I'm draping it rather than following a pattern so it's going to be very free flowing and organic, I'm not sure wether to gather the shoulders or pleat them but I'm leaning towards pleats so the bulk lays flat.

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POV: you over slept by a few thousand years on the family farm

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It begins!!!

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Adventures in Sampling

Right now I'm having fun with experimenting with different methods of ageing and distressing. Whilst it doesn't necessarily fall into this category I was interested in using bubble painting to create a mottled effect on fabric. I've been using this jacket as a canvas for these experiments. The previous experiment with seeds had to be called off last year but I'll be trying again this spring/summer.

To start off I tried using silk paints. This did not work at all and none of it showed up on the fabric.

I then swapped to black acrylic paint. This showed up on the fabric (remnants of a loose woven linen) but the colour bled into the fabric meaning all detail was lost.

I kind of liked the mottled effect towards the centre but the whole right side was wrong.

I tried using the paint on paper to make sure that my paint to water ratio was right.

This proved that the mix was fine, it was likely my fabric choices causing problems. I decided to use small pieces of the fabric the jacket is made of. I had very little of this remaining so I had to be careful with what I tried. I started off with the same method as the first attempts. The result was much better. The thicker fabric was less absorbent so there was almost no bleed and the bubbles were better defined.

I wasn't completly happy though, I wanted to see larger bubble outlines like the ones on the paper. Thinking through the differences between the fabric and paper, I realised that the paper was much stiffer than the fabric. To test this theory I interfaced my second piece of scuba suede before painting.

This result was so much better than the first with much more defined bubbles.

Just to confirm my theory about stiffness I interfaced a piece of the first fabric and tested it out.

Even though bleed was still a problem I prefer this much more than the first attempts.

Tommorow I'll be applying this to the jacket. The plan is to use an embroidery hoop for stiffness because the jacket has no interfacing.

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Absolutely not convinced by using felt instead of the lichens. I think I'm going to go back to the drawing board for the shoulder sections

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Its finished!!!!

So happy with how this has come out, I'm tempted to add some glow in the dark paint in the yellow sections but that's a decision for later.

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4am mini update on the turtle shell.

Going to add 1 more layer of red, then theres a little bit more yellow to do on the back. After that I can line the inside and add straps. If all goes well I'll be finished tommorow!!!

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Flattened out the bones and inserted the busk and lining.

Going to do the binding tommorow 🥶🥶🥶

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Started to add the boning this evening, I'm using polyester boning and I'm not a massive fan of the way it is curving. I'll see how it looks when I insert the busk but if its still super bent out of shape I'm going to see if I can flatten it with a little bit of heat.

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It looks way better after adding the shoulder straps. And the pattern is finally photographing correctly!

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Fixed the asymmetry, just waiting on some boning and an underbusk before I can put the lining in

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Realised way too late into making these stays that the centre front panels that the middle wasn't symmetrical T_T

Re cut it now but my seam rippers gone walkabouts so I'm giving up on it till tomorrow.

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Swearing vengeance against yellow paint this afternoon. It took so many layers to get it to be opaque T_T

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Swearing vengeance against yellow paint this afternoon. It took so many layers to get it to be opaque T_T

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I've been making a lot of things these past few months whilst I've been off social media. One of my major projects right now is an EVA foam turtle shell that I'm making for LARP. It's my first time working with EVA foam so I'll be happy with anything that can take a few hits without falling to bits and it's a personal project so it doesn't matter if it's a bit rough around the edges.

I'm making a turtle shell based on the Western Painted Turtle so it's going to have a lot of bright colours.

I ended up having a minor disaster whilst sanding hence the horrendous amount of caulk in the fourth image. I ended up stressing a bit about the shade of the green paint whilst it was drying but it ended up drying much darker than it looks in the last picture. I used clear flexi paint for the colour and its producing good results for me so far and it dries pretty quickly so I've been able to power through the painting so far.

The next step is to start with the red and yellow parts of the shell, the black/dark green lines will have yellow on top and the inside of the shell is going to be super bright.

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I've been making a lot of things these past few months whilst I've been off social media. One of my major projects right now is an EVA foam turtle shell that I'm making for LARP. It's my first time working with EVA foam so I'll be happy with anything that can take a few hits without falling to bits and it's a personal project so it doesn't matter if it's a bit rough around the edges.

I'm making a turtle shell based on the Western Painted Turtle so it's going to have a lot of bright colours.

I ended up having a minor disaster whilst sanding hence the horrendous amount of caulk in the fourth image. I ended up stressing a bit about the shade of the green paint whilst it was drying but it ended up drying much darker than it looks in the last picture. I used clear flexi paint for the colour and its producing good results for me so far and it dries pretty quickly so I've been able to power through the painting so far.

The next step is to start with the red and yellow parts of the shell, the black/dark green lines will have yellow on top and the inside of the shell is going to be super bright.

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Im going to be awol for the next few weeks, I'll try to get one or two short posts out but I probably won't be able to do anything super in depth.

In slightly better news if you are at MCM Birmingham you can pick up dice bags and face masks designed by @eethok and sewn by me at table A06 in artists alley along with a load of other cool art from eethok.