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The First Cut is the Deepest!!!

With our Bowes Museum exhibition finally up it was business as usual for the rest of the week at College.  Usual being really getting all the stuff ready so I can work at home in the three week Easter break.  I had loads of fabric I wanted to print and also to do some laser cutting for some 'fancy bits' to adorn my final piece should it ever evolve!!!

I got the fabric printed and it most looked mighty fine - I'm a tad disappointed with the way some of the prints behave when printed on the poly linen.  There is a definite bleed and in some places it renders the fabric unusable - I cant quite work out why it does it in some place and not others and why some times its just on one patch of the fabric... no one else seems to know either!!!   However the fabric is printed and any scabby bits will not be wasted but will make piping cord and soon the final cushion will be under way... that's when I can bring myself to actually cut the fabric!!!


I don't know why this is so difficult - its not as if I cant reprint the pattern but for some reason its really hard to take scissors to the cloth and cut!!

I spent some time faffing with the layout for the sequins to be laser cut - my first attempt was interesting I was trying for etched lines but the acrylic was so thin it just cut rather than etched and the finished product just dropped to bits - too many cuts - but it looked good but needed less spaces so it held together, by the time I had adjusted the design it was an hour wait for the laser cutter and I decided to give it up until after Easter.

This fabric has some extremely wacky wallpaper to go with it - its the same as the main fabric and is based on a principal of it doesn't need to be hung matching- it can be but can also be hung mismatched to look very funky - this has been inspired by a local wallpaper designer Kirath Ghundoo who makes fabulous mismatching lengths of wallpaper.  Its not everybody's cup of tea but I'm not everybody!


The various lengths of fabric will be transformed into a large floor cushion when I eventually date to get out the shears!!!



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