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Vintage Myth - Someone died in it.
OMG!! MY DEAR READER CHUMS!! THIS THE PENULTIMATE POST!
Art Foundation is coming to an end and I am saddened by this as it has been a spectacular year a wonderful yet hard end to what has been a year! WHAT A YEAR!! I have made some amazing friends and also learnt a lot about myself in the process! Thinking about to where I started to where I am now! What a journey. Next week I will be reflecting on the highs and lows of what has been a spectacle of a year. University awaits me!! Bring it on!! What to say and what has been going on? I have been finalizing the final piece and how it will be constructed and where the construction will start. The prep stages are the hardest and I have found myself getting lost within bin bags which has been fun but also arm aching as I cut up the bags. The challenge!! Getting the right thickness which is hard and hasn't been achieved as I have been cutting it to thick which will give a looser crochet. Previously in my life I thought that World War 1 began in 1912 which was actually the year of the Titanic. Awkward. Also my love of films has grown and can't stop watching them!! Bad timing with the FMP due in!! Hahaha.
This shows the final designs for the final piece that I will be making, It is constructed from a circle skirt which is attached to a waist band that is constructed from crochet to bring in the waist. I want this constructed from either double or triple crochet. Triple would loosen up the stitch. It is how I attach it to the coffin, will I have to decrease the stitches either side of the crochet or I could increase them depending if my initial stitches become the bottom or the top. There will be overlapping straps that come over the shoulders and attach to the skirt with a simple row of stitching by hand. It will all come together with a collar made of bank notes to show how the cost of Haute Couture is killing the industry. This piece has to represent the end of Haute Couture as it attends it's own funeral and I want this to be my finale piece that demonstrates how far I have come and where I am going in my work. I can't wait to start working on the final piece in the next day or two.
This humble roll is what will eventually be my final piece. I haven't come to terms with the fact that I have to make my final piece, it hasn't hit me yet and I don't think it will till I have to exhibit it in the the Foundation room with everyone else's work side by side. This is the beginning and also the end of the project. The beginning being where I begun, a mess of darkness who had no direction who was to be moulded in a student who could work hard and deliver on the work that is required to pull work together. The end being the fact I now have to leave and fly the nest from Cronton Sixth Form. It took me a while to cut all this up, you would never think cutting a bin bag up would take over an hour. But it does. The barrel shape means that you to continually twist it around before you can cut again. It is frustrating but I have to remember that it has to be done so that I have a fabric to work with as part of the structure and purpose of my project and work. The bag has a slight stretch which allows the give when it comes using the crochet hook and creating the knots.
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