Week 2- Dress(1) pvc

Week 2 we worked with clear pvc. We all got the fabric a week before the fashion show which gave us time to work with it.

I did not really like the clear pvc at all. When Nathan said he was getting pvc for week two i did not imagine he would get the group clear pvc, i find cleara bit boring and unusual but then i rememberd the module 'EXPLORE MATERIALS' so thats what i did.

I did not use a dress block for this i simply just explored the material trying to suit best my style of working. I like the more modern funky look and i did not feel i could achieve this with just working with pvc alone.

I found that the pvc would not sew it was getting stuck on my machine and ripping, i was furtrated and so close to changing my material to somthing more simple, but i decided to keep going and do my best. When sian explained to me i should have used a plastic foot on my machine so that it can smoothely glide it made more sense .

So i hand stitched gold and black netted material and pages from a newspaper just to explore and see how it could look .

Overall i was quiet pleased with my first ever attempt of a dress. I did not like working with the material but did learn right and wrongs from this.