previous school work

i took textiles for three years because my first year sucked! to be honest, so did my second first year but i'm holding out for my third! (results to come)

in my first year, i made two art pieces. one based on the seasons and the other on fruit. they were pretty awful and have since throw away the former, but the final piece from the latter project is still in my room...somewhere.

i retook this first year, so with the knowledge of how much work i needed to do, i started with enthusiasm! i made two garments this time. the first project based on 'around the world in 80 days', the book by jules verne and the second about ancient egypt. it's clear from the first project that i didn't learn from my mistakes of the previous year but i was super proud of my second project! i made a belt thing that egyptians used to wear which i would totally wear out in public if it could fit around my tummy :P i got a b for my egypt project and it almost made me forget about the e i got for the other one...

this is my lovely friend emily modelling my practice waistcoat for the first crappy project. no joke, this is actually better than the end result!

this is the egyptian belt...thing! the actual belt part is entirely pin tucks and is 3 metres worth of fabric! safe to say, it took forever! but i love it :)
there is some lovely detail on the back but i don't have a good enough picture.

so, i'd finally reached a2 textile art and my personal study! i chose phantom of the opera to study because it gave me an excuse to watch gerard butler as the phantom. i got really really into it and it paid off! I didn't get a good grade for it at first but hopefully my mark has improved a little after i did some work it. my final piece was a tutu and leotard and i also made a matching pointe shoe as part of my back up work.

then came the exam project. i chose to do the planets because i'm in love with prof. brian cox. i've never done so much back up work for a project! but i'm rather please with my art final piece :) this is the end result of a 15 hour, 3 day long exam where we had to remain silent! it was horrible, and the invigilator had an annoying cough!

and thus ended my textiles course! sorry for so much writing, i got too into it :P