For the last week of this project I continued to work on creting my pattern in various different ways. Using different fabrics and combining printing, gathering and ironing to create a shattered or broken effect.

We also had to create a mood board and a colour board to higlight our theme. For my colour board I used my main image and pulled grey tones and blues from the photograph. I used fabrics in these colours to create my swatches to help carry the theme through the project. For the mood boad I used anouther image I had taken and several other images I had taken or found to try and emphasise the broken and shattered effect I was trying to create in my swatches.

Twords the end of the week I began to pick my favourite swatches and remake them for my fabric boards that we would have to present at the end of the week. I chose a selection of swatches that i had created throughout the three weeks that had all been done using different tecniques and fabrics.

On the second week of this breif we began to make swatches of our various different patterns. I wanted to recreate the sharpness that was in the photographs I had taken. I also wanted the patterns on the fabric to be as random as possible to the would have a broken or shattered effect. I used tecniques such as gathering and pleating at first to try and creat this but I found that the swatched didnt have the sharpness or the 'edge' i wanted them to have. I began to use the iron to flatten any creses in the fabric and to sharpen all the fold. I found this tecnique worked very well and I got some results I was really happy with.

I also used the stencils I had made for mark making to paint the pattern onto the fabric. I really like the effect this gave me. It was easy to create more intricate patterns in this way.

I wanted to further these tecniques by using different fabrics and combing both methods. I found this to be really effective in creting the kind of patterns I was looking for.

For our first week in Fashion we had to decided on a theme for our pattern project. After taking many research images i decided to use the photographs of broken windows I found. I liked that the pattern created was random and unique. I found many of the repeat or uniform patterns werent interesting to work with.

We then began to use various mark making tecniques to recreate our pattens but in a more simplified way. This way we were able to turn our images into basic prints. I decided to concentrate on one image which I found the most interesting.

I really liked this image I like the spiderweb effect of the cracks and the way they radiate outwards from the point of impact. I wanted to recreate this in me pattern design.

These atre some of the mark making tecniques I used,

I really liked some of the results of the mark making. I decided to make stencils from some of the more intricate designs I made so i could dye or paint the pattern onto the fabric.