knitted grevillea

the first piece of knitting for the year!

my sweet teacher dan taught me how to knit with 2 colours to make pictures,

so here is a knitted silhouette of a Grevillea "Orange Marmelade"!

just so excited to sew on my rag tags everywhere now!

not sure what to make with it..so I think it might just stay as a picture on my wall =]

thanks for looking

xxx

printed scarves and shirts

This week I exposed a screen with my rag label on it, so now I can screenprint my tags! eeeee!!

I finally got time today to make some some sweet scarves and pockets on plain t-shirts with my Grevillea "Orange Marmelade" print...

This print is the first screenprint I made this year - hand drawn lace.

hope you like

xxx

Atlantes EP launch

Last night was well spent, at the Smith's alternative bookshop in Canberra.
My beautiful bestfriends band Atlantes was launching their EP titled Scenic. Quite a few friends and local music lovers were crammed into the small bookshop, keeping toastyy on a very chilly May evening.

Local Canberran band Elisha Bones opened for Atlantes. such glorious tunes. listen to this

Atlantes

hannah - vocals and violin      jordan - guitar and backing vocals       sam- drums       peter- bass

hannah whipping out her violin skills

Sexy CDs $5...totally worth so much more.. considering we stayed up till 1am the other morning cutting, stitching, printing, and typing out each sweet EP...

..plus the music is awesome

check it out here http://atlantes.bandcamp.com/ 

big delicious beverages - turkish delight hot chocolate went down a treat!

i had a fantastic evening, gee i have talented friends!

xxx

a printing kind of day

sorry for my lack of blogging, been abit of a busy bee..

I spent my whole day printing lengths of fabric today, to make into different things, dresses, tops, scarves, pockets to name a few. 

weekends are the best time for printing, got the whole workshop to myself so i could spread out all my things and focus only on the fabricccc!

art school trees definitely make the most of autumn, 

 so this is a photo taken straight after printing, waiting for the latest prints to dry, i thought it made a pretty cool effect and you can see the repeat pretty easily.

 the length of cotton burgandy fabric i plan to make into a shift dress, and that piece of linen in the foreground is one of many tea towels we are selling at the textiles open day in august! (get around itttttt)

ta daaaaaaa

the fruits of a days labour!

screen printed tags

hope to share some completed clothes with you soon, 

but for now, i should write my design history essay. yes. now. go rosie go.

skirt sewing saturday

Here are some more of Tara Bromham's garments for her honour's project. 

3 down 5 to go!

this is an elastic waisted skirt, 

made of silk chiffon naturally dyed with black rice and iron by Tara 

designed and made by myself

it has the most beautiful drape

pleated skirt, 

screen printed silk charmeuse by Tara

designed and made by myself

the length is still to be confirmed, although i have invisible stitched it now anyway, it is to be just above the knee

Tara's exquisite feather design

happy mothers day! 

enjoy your sunday xxx

print!

today was screen print class, and after weeks of designing and preparing, I finally got to put my print onto fabric and see if the repeat worked! and it did! hurrrrrrah!!!

so the theme was native australian plants, and i designed mine off a silhouette of a stem of Grevillia Orange marmalade. 

 my print on my screen, registered and ready to go!

 black transparent print paste

 ta daaaaa!! a 3 metre length all printed and drying :)

now to turn it into scarves and dresses and pockets and collars, onto some sweet orange marmalade colours

stay tuned to see the finished products

xxx

visual serenity

garment one of eight complete!

naturally dyed silk by Tara Bromham

Designed and made by me

vintage lace, naturally dyed silk chiffon

just happened to stumble upon these beautiful leaves walking home from class the other day, their colours match Tara's blouse perfectly! 

nature is so good to us

xxx

rag ragidy rag rag rag

today i have been contemplating a new font for my label rag--- which you may or may not have realised are my initials!

after some feedback from a teacher of mine, I think the uppercase R.A.G has somewhat of a military/tough aesthetic...which is not really my style, quite the opposite really.. so after sifting through plenty of potential fonts on adobe illustrator and various websites, i think i have settled on a lower case typewriter font which i have then drawn over the top to get a rougher more hand drawn effect.

 For one of my classes, we have to make potential business cards...so i have been staring at the screen all day, playing around with photoshop and illustrator, and found i could do some cool layering with photo's and letters and ta daaa!..

a detail of a laptop case i made for a friend

a little pouch made from vintage fabric

i think i'll think about it...let me know what you think!!!

collaboration

In the next few weeks I will be sewing up a storm using the fabrics designed and made by my good friend, and honours student Tara Bromham (check out her work here)

She is a very talented textile designer, working mostly with screenprinting and natural dyes. 

Yesterday, we spent a number of hours in the textile workshop sorting vintage, hand printed and natural dyed fabrics and collating them into beautiful designed clothes, and cutting cutting cutting!

 what a beautiful colour palette nature provides

silk chiffon, satin and habitae, vintage lace and linen, silk and cotton velvet

eeeeeeeee!!

xxx

PINK

so i thought i should document some crafty little fun things that have been in the making lately, but i have been to busy to blog about! 

this is a detail of a delectable scarf made for a dear friend of mine, 

similar to the first scarf i made, but extra thick and wooly, perfect for the chills of a canberran winter!

i have a strange infatuation with triangles and calico bags... 

nothing like a bit of pink to brighten your day!

sneak peak of band night

After a jam packed week, I took a moment to relive the memories last night at bandnight. 

Here is the gorgeous Metaxia sporting a 'grace potter' inspired jacket/cape. There are many more to come, now just to sort through the 500 odd photographs that landed on my SD card last night!

xxx