Category: Independent Project

Core Concept

I plan to use captures from earthtime.org, a website created by the CREATE lab at CMU that compiles satellite data and various databases to visualize human impact and demographic shifts geographically. I will compile various images from the website that represent different data about Pittsburgh. To represent these images, I want to create a repeat pattern with a blank map of Pittsburgh with time on the x-axis and different measurements on the y-axis. By not immediately revealing what these graphs represent, I can probe the viewer to consider different aspects of the data (colors shifting and taking over other colors) and then later connect those to the real-life data they represent.

Choice of Materials

As it’s a screenprinting project, the materials are less important than what the visualization represents. I will likely use a cricut machine, tape, and other materials associated with screenprinting. I don’t plan to use very complicated colors, with a base of black maps with different data being represented with relatively easy to differentiate colors (red, blue, green, yellow, other stock colors).

Timeline

11/30 – final collection of all images in photoshop for cricut, full sketch of what I intend to make

11/30-12/6 – Repeated Studio Days of Cricut/Screen Printing, need one session for the base layer of maps. While that dries, preparing the screens for the next day

Overall, I need at least a few separate days of studio work to prepare all the screens and print them

Concept

Over the past week, my roommates and I hosted a Thanksgiving dinner in our apartment. We all invited our friends over and had almost 20 people show up to enjoy our roast turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin pie, and much more. The event was especially meaningful to me as it was the first time I’ve hosted and prepared food for any big event with friends, and now I want to find a way to remember the night. To do this, I plan to put together a textile version of our Thanksgiving food plate — a collection of all the foods that we prepared on the day. I hope to have all the foods felted and placed on a large (weaved/felted/folded cloth not sure yet) plate. The foods may even be felted in their natural form (alive turkey instead of roasted turkey) to emphasize the liveliness of the occasion.

Materials

• Wool – brown, natural, red, gray, orange, etc.
  • Dye if these colors aren’t readily available
• Felting Needle
• Felting Sponge
• Cloth – to potentially wrap around the felted plate

Timeline

Nov 23: Proposal

Nov 24: Scout around IDeATe & determine what extra materials are needed

Nov 29 – Dec 1: Finalize Designs & Material Preparation

Dec 2 – Dec 6: Finish felting together plate & turkey

Dec 7 – Dec 9: Finish felting side foods & attach onto plate

Core Concept

The core concept of my final project is creating a dress. I have always wanted to make a piece of clothing, especially a dress. I want to make it unique in the sense that it is a dress that caters to what I want and not the average person. Something that is a bit ruffly on the bottom, and has nice ribbons on certain parts of the dress, and all comes together. Especially important is that the dress is fitted to myself and I am able to wear the dress, so learning how to tailor-make a dress for a certain customer almost.

Choice of Materials

The choice of materials I use include cotton/linen for the dress so that is it is breathable. I am thinking of using white as ruffle white dresses are really pretty, but yellow could work too. And the usual sewing thread and needle to sew the dress together. For the ribbons, I will use red ribbons as well as laced and a logo ribbon to add more liveliness to the dress.

Timeline:

11 23-26 – Draw sketches, create mock-ups, keep brainstorming designs and

12/1 – Finish sewing of entire dress

12/4 – Fix all parts of dress which requires fixing

12/8 – Finish all final-touches and sewn ribbons

Core Concept

Exploring Floral Embroideries

Around two months ago, I bought a second-hand jacket on Depop. It was shipped from Greece and is made out of all-natural materials. However, I never wore it. I felt like it looked too big and very bland. I want to transform this jacket by taking in the shoulders a little and adding hand embroideries.

I am also knitting my first sweater. I also plan on adding floral embroideries to this sweater. I feel like embroideries are typically done onto non-knit fabrics. I want to use a tapestry needle and a lightweight yarn to embroider on the sweater.

I want to explore different types of floral embroideries. I plan on learning how to hand embroider a variety of flowers. If time permits, I also want to do computerized embroidery on the back of the jacket.

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Types of Materials

1. Embroidery Needles (For Jacket)
2. Embroidery Threads (For Jacket)
3. Worsted Weight Yarn (For Sweater)
4. Tapestry Needle (For Sweater)
5. Computerized Embroidery supplies. (For back of Jacket)

Timeline:

November 26 – Hand embroidery on the front of the jacket. Learn a variety of stitches that can be used on the sweater

November 30 – Finish sweater knitting and start exploring types of flowers to embroider on the sweater.

December 3 – Explore computerized embroidery

December 9 – Complete all floral embroidery