Sketch book lessons

I've been putting my sketch book together - and while I think it reflects the research and work accomplished I do not like it as much as previous ones. For me it feels rushed and less personal, it contains lots of imagery taken from the Internet and some of my photographs but not much drawing and very little colour.

I enjoy developing my sketch books as much as the samples and final pieces - I think they are an interesting evidence of each journey undertaken for each assignment and they document my best and worst ideas while giving a sense of me and how I work. while this sketch book isn't as good as I would like on reflection I think it is also because I choose to limit my colour palette and move out of my comfort zone regarding colourways and also because I messed up on time management knowing I had to hand in early.

I've also been working on more final samples.... I have my final hand in this week and have been happily experimenting doing reverse stitching on the sewing machine -

using wool, embroidery thread and ribbon in the bobbin and sewing from the back on to white cotton and paper. I could and will in fact carry on playing with these for a long time but I have to stop somewhere and mount the massive amount of samples I have finished today!

There are lessons to be learnt and I've got all summer to reflect and consider how I will move forward in the next year... can't believe I've finished my first year as a textile student already!!!

So for the next couple of months this blog will be about my summer travels and adventures - next week I will be traipsing around southern Ireland in Beryl the yellow peril - (clutch allowing).

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