Grace Price-Jones Mixed Media Year 9

Here is a stunning 'work in progress' piece I would like to share with you. Whilst the task was to demonstrate Applique and hand stitching Grace went one step further and demonstrated a variety of skills to create her 'woman piece' Grace used batik to create the outline of her woman, this demonstrated accuracy and is a good way to section areas of colour. Grace then used a variety of dyes for the colour and fabric pens for the detail. The mouth shows reverse applique and the headpiece demonstrated applique using a variety of felts, fabrics and hand stitches.

Truly creative and beautifully executed Grace. You are one talented young lady. Keep up the excellent work and finish this piece.

Miss M

Tayla Pilsworth Applique Year 9

The year 9's have been looking at Applique recently in order to create an Applique cushion demonstrating Applique, Reverse Applique, a variety of hand stitching and attaching a zip.

Tayla has created a wonderful applique page backed up by a wide variety of research and designs. Here  are some examples of her applique samples. I can see a wide variety of hand stitching skills which have been neatly applied. I like Tayla's unique use of colour, the way she layers felt with multi colored stitching and the small details. 

Excellent work as always Tayla. Well done. Miss M

Jessica Heye's Applique-Year 9.

The year 9's have been looking at Applique recently in order to create an Applique cushion demonstrating Applique, Reverse Applique, a variety of hand stitching and attaching a zip.

Jess has created a wonderful applique page backed up by a wide variety of research and designs. Here most recent applique samples are quite spectacular as I see neat, refined skills.

Here are some examples of her work.

Keep up the excellent work Jess. You are a very talented young lady.

Miss M

Libby Barker's Research Year 10

I asked the year 10's to take inspirational photographs that tied in with their 'Textured Surfaces' project. Libby headed into Manchester and came back with flyers, band posters and images that inspired her. I then asked her to base some drawing work on what she found. Here is Libby's page.

Libby created some flower drawings which reminded me of artist 'Alisa Burke' therefore she recreated some samples in her own style using dye, gutta and pen on fabric and silk. She also looked at text in pen. I like the explanation and reasoning behind the journey evident in Libby's work.

Well done Libby. You produce such interesting work and I look forwards to seeing what you create in year 11. Keep up this creativity.

Miss M

Niamh Mahoney's Design Plan

Teaching a craft subject is about inspiring others. Some are given ideas and some choose their own ideas...adding to them, embellishing them, injecting their own personality into their work. The year 9 Textiles group are very much independent workers with an array of exciting and interesting ideas. 

Here is an example of Niamh Mahoney's Peacock applique cushion. I love the colours and the way the sample work has been positioned over her plan to demonstrate how it will look. Well done Niamh. I can't wait to see your finished piece.

Year 7 Mini Monsters

Well done year 7...for the creative, interesting and original mini monsters you created this rotation. I am impressed with the tie dying techniques and accurate stitching.

Year 9 Hand Stitching

Here are some absolutely beautiful hand stitching pages from my current year 9 group. Well done Niamh Mahoney, Tayla Pilsworth and Jessica Heyes. Keep up the outstanding effort and work girls. Miss Mellor