Today I met Aviva and we traveled to her Happisburgh studio to prepare for the Makers Month Event in Feb! We sat and planned last min things such as the children's activities on the Tuesday and Thursday and chatted about my denim patch works. I up cycled 2 tables, a chair and a 2 metre stand/rail (which we are using to hand the giant patchwork at the end). I sanded and painted them using chalk paint, this gave so many ideas of my own, for the future. We plan to have all of this lovely up cycled furniture in the forum atrium for people to get in the spirit of slow, mindful, conscious making. In the blue table we plan to make markings on the edges of the table to replicate stitches and sashioko like in my denim patchwork- I think this would look really quirky add an extra handcrafted touch to it.  In the evening time I deconstructed a second hand lampshade which was part of a large floor lamp. I was left with the wire frame where I weaved, tied and loopeed the shredded fabric which I made in to yarn beforehand, in an out of the wire. I only used old pieces of fabrics, continuing the up cycling, reclaiming, reusing theme. The end result was brilliant and i think the collection of furniture will tie the whole workshop together. The next time I will see Aviva is the day of the forum event but we plan to have phone calls between then, confirming any last minute details that might crop up.  Aviva shared so much wisdom with me and I feel like I have learnt an incredible amount with Aviva, I feel privileged to have had my placement with her.

I realised how many experimental samples I have got, especially for my Interiors project where I have been using sublimation printing. I must get a move on with some designs and choose my final ones so I can continue on with my other projects.

I tried to devore onto denim not thinking about the fibre content. It obviously ate away at the cotton and I was left with a distressed frayed effect, I thought of this as a disaster at first but realised I could use this in my boro sampling. I looked at boro examples again and discovered that the denim was shredded and distressed!!! This fits perfectly!
I then tried devore onto a cotton polyester but this also ate away most of the cotton and I was left with very little again. I plan to do this more to add to a Boro sample- then repeat this as a final.

I also devored onto my favourite sublimation repeat design (which i was going to use as a final sample) and was crossing my fingers that it would go well but I stupidly put it in the heat press for too long!! It unfortunately went black and I had to wash it various times. It still isn't how I planned but I guess mistakes happen. I do like how the fabric has changed quality, it is much thinner as the cellulose fibres have been eaten away and the synthetic fibres have been left.