Making and Printing.

Now I've finished my sampling I'm ready to move onto the making of my final piece and garment. Taking all my research and sampling into consideration, I decided to make two items. One being a t-shirt as a casual design, the second being more formal, a shirt. As Im not using my original 'Bow' print, I thought of how I could still add my original observational drawing into my final piece. I decided on making a 'Bow Tie' to add onto my printed shirt.
My first step was to create a pattern to print onto my fabric. I took some transfer paint, I used most of the colours I had sampled with, my original colour pallet, which was bright colours. Pinks, purples, yellows, greens and blues. Using a paint brush I began to splash the paint onto a piece of paper. I created lots of different shapes and patterns, using all of my colour pallet, and kept layering the colours, shapes and patterns over the top of one another. I then placed my piece of fabric on top of the paper, and heat pressed it for 60 seconds. I repeated this process until I had filled my fabric which was if enough to create my Bow tie from.
My next step was to print onto my shirt. I used the same colours and patterns as I used to build up the print on my bow tie. I repeatedly used the same pieces of paper that had the patterns and colours and transfer paint on. I went over the same places a number of times, heat pressed the colours onto my shirt until all the white was coloured, including the collar and sleeves.
I then went onto printing onto my t-shirt. As I was using the same pieces of paper to create the same patterns, the colours began to print lighter and lighter each time I heat pressed them. So my t-shirt looked a lot lighter and the colours looked more faded. More subtle, sugar colours.

I then moved onto constructing my bow. I used the sewing machine to turn my printed fabric into a bow shape. I decided to turn the sleeves up on my t-shirt and stitch them in place. I also rolled the t-shirt up into a crop top. So u could wear the t-shirt both ways and it was versatile. Here's how my final pieces looked.