Show Promos: Knit Posters

Way back when, I posted a knit poster I had made, that had taken entirely too long to create in bulk. Well, our end design turned out really successful. Basically, I designed punchcards for each of the 4 sections of text. Then my team of knitters, actually 90% Emily in knitting monitor-mode, knit away long bands of each punchcard in different color combinations. I then washed the long blanket-like pieces, and sewed 2 rows of zigzag stitch between each portion of knitted text and cut the different sections apart from one another. A tag-team effort at the linking machine meant Emily and I were able to get all the posters finished just in time. We were aiming for 20 posters, but we ended up with 26! That's amazing! We even had a spare date portion to sew over the larger poster that had been knit with the wrong date. Anyways, I put them all up in our studio to get the other kids excited about our show and to take a picture of them all before they were put up, and inevitably stolen.


Before these pieces were reattached to the rest of their posters. I just thought this would be an awesome picture for the Textiles portion of the school's look book (instead of the random stuff they have had the past few years)

Show Promos: The Beach

I couldn't show these guys until after the show was over, because I didn't want to ruin the surprise for anyone in Providence. The Textiles show is always one of the best advertised shows, because we are one of the only majors who do not have any other space to display our work. Our senior show is a big deal to us, so we want to make people excited about it.

First off, we created a 3D stuffed letter sign for this huge brick wall on the tiny patch of grass (known as the beach) that sits in the center of our "campus". Students signed up for 1 or 2 letters and my friend Emily and I devised a way to hang all the letters up together. This project made me very happy to work on because it was so collaborative and the results were very diverse.



The shining E was covered in reflective tape. MY face is saying "Wow, it's cold out here" But this is the only picture I have with our sign.

These are some of the only pictures I have of our beloved sign, because only 2 nights after we put it up, someone, actually a couple drunken someones, came and tore our sign apart. Only 2 letters were hanging by morning. The general code around school about signage or promo stuff is that stealing is fine, but only after the event. It was only Wednesday, our opening was Thursday, and we were totally bummed. So, I got together a bunch of fabric we had sitting in our studio free bin, sewed them together, and made a quick retaliation sign. While I was making it, someone suggested the "2.0" which I thought would add a nice touch. Here it is in it's hanging glory, back on the beach (which is really a patch of grass):

Preparing for our Show

I've been working on a bunch of materials to promote out Senior Show. I would post pictures, but I will wait till after they have been put up so the people who actually get to see them in person are still surprised.

Also, I've been preparing & organizing the things of mine I want in the show. I will be putting in several pieces from this semester & I also want to bring some optional pieces from last year. These are the older ones I'm thinking of:

Website Update

In preparation of the whole job search & application process, I've updated my Portfolio Website. Check it out!

Photo Shoot 2.0

Monday is out 2nd interim crit. So, in preparation, I had a shoot for my projects. Here is my snowflake dress on Saera. I'm really happy with it!



Here are my ideas for the gold leaf piece. The tape is supposed to show the ares with gold leaf. It will still be cut to accent the structural knit pattern, like the sample I made.



I love the back, but I wanted to break the pattern up more in the front. I don't know if I am fully convinced I like this particular solution.

New Project Ideas

So now that I am done with my laborious dress, here is my newest experiment-turned project.


Here is a sample of gold leaf on my test sleeve. I am now mapping out the bigger picture of how I want the gold leaf ares to be arranged on the body.

Here She Is!

Spring Break is done and so is the snowflake dress/ tunic (other than sewing in the threads).