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d the amount of stitch so that those nearest to the top were more plastic than stitch and those closer to the bottom were more stitch by keeping some of the aquabond residue in the pieces i was able to keep the stitched circles quite firm i wanted them to retain their circular molecular shapes well to represent the elements of nature fighting for survival amidst the plastic image 12 5 image 12 6 image 12 7 image 12 8 layer 5 all stitch i had already made most of these pieces in the previous chapter this was one of the few occasions where i opted to use variegated thread different shades within the variegated thread gave a softer more natural effects than a solid colour would have given the separate pieces also blended well together because they shared some common colours within the variegation creating a more cohesive appearance than would have been achieved with separate single colours image 12 9 image 12 10 i arranged the pieces several times to find the right positions and settled on the arrangement shown in image 12 11 below image 12 11 to connect the pieces i used some clear nylon fishing line and stitched each of the pieces in the seven columns ensuring that there was enough thread between the pieces to allow them to move freely when suspended i considered different materials for the rod which would support the hanging i went to a local fishing supplies store to see if they had any broken fishing rods that i could use as i wanted to explore the idea of using some waste materials in keeping with the theme of man made waste in the oceans the shop owner was happy to give me a broken fibre glass rod and i tried using this but it didn t work well as the rod was too tapered i then considered using a piece of doweling and painting it or wrapping it in plastic to make it blend in with the hanging the painted doweling looked too solid and detracted from the quite ethereal nature of the hanging wrapping the doweling in plastic and threads worked quite well as it blended the rod with the hanging pieces another option that i considered was to buy an acrylic rod which was available for 3 online however i decided against this as it seemed wrong to be buying new plastic for a project aimed at highlighting the need to reduce our usage of plastics i therefore opted for the doweling wrapped in plastics and thread see image 12 12 image 12 12 the final wall hanging the images below show the final wall hanging as can be seen the hanging comprises seven hanging columns which can move freely i contemplated joining the columns together as that would have ensured that the circles all faced forward and so their surfaces could all be seen however once i attached them to the rod i really liked the way that they could twist and turn it produced a much more exciting piece with the circles being at various different angles image 12 13 image 12 14 image 12 15 image 12 16 evaluation how do i feel about this final piece i am very pleased with this final piece more pleased than i expected to be at various stages of the module when i was struggling to work out how to depict my thoughts it is the piece that has taken the most thought and planning out of all of the modules there were several design themes that i was keen to include that the piece would represent sea life in its many forms being smothered by plastic i didn t want anything to obvious or twee e g using fish shapes i think that by using these molecular looking structures i have achieved this they represent the natural elements and compounds that make up the vast array of sea life forms that there should be strong contrasts between the materials used i e man made versus natural i feel that this was achieved by using the firm plastic for the top layers and natural silk and cotton threads for the sea life layers that the piece should tell a story i e the gradual domination of the ocean by plastics i think that this is achieved by the changing structure of the pieces from all plastic at the top through various hybrid pieces to the natural pieces at the bottom that the piece should move in a way that echoes the ocean by stringing the pieces using fishing line and suspending them as individual columns i have achieved this the columns are free to move in a breeze and twist around is it fit for purpose at its most basic yes as a wall hanging it does what it needs to do it is the size as requested in the brief and it is able to be hung on a wall in terms of whether it meets the brief of representing an environmental theme then i believe it does this too i have tested it out on various friends and family and they were all able to describe to me what they thought the piece was telling them i e that the plastic was smothering and corrupting the natural life forms what would i change if i designed and made it again i don t think i would change anything at all on it i have tried numerous iterations and spent a long time thinking of how i wanted the piece to look and how to construct it and have arrived at a final piece that i am totally happy with anything that i thought didn t work was changed along the way leave a comment module 6 chapters 8 11 october 30 2018 janechippstitch research for conservation theme as a keen sailor and beach walker i was keen to use water and in particular the world s oceans as the basis for my final piece i did some research into the main environmental threats to oceans as a starting point image 8 1 image 8 1 whilst there were numerous topics that i could have chosen there had been two extremely sad photographs in the national media during the week both relating to the tragic impact of plastics on ecosystems and wildlife i therefore chose to focus on plastics in the ocean 8 2 stork trapped in plastic bag fortunately the photographer was able to rescue it and remove the bag image 8 3 whale that died due to being so full of plastic bags that it could no longer digest real food other tragic images that made me want to chose this topic included this albatross image 8 4 which was full of plastic objects that it had eaten image 8 4 albatross full of undigested plastics image 8 5 sea otter rescuing its pup from a plastic bag image 8 6 sketchbook pages i learned that due to the way the world s currents work there are five massive gyres in the world which are floating garbage patches the largest in the pacific is three times the size of france image 8 7 the great pacific garbage patch below a poignant version of hokusai s great wave this time full of plastic image 8 8 image 8 8 some of the facts that really hit home for me were by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish every piece of plastic ever made still exists an estimated 90 of sea birds have eaten plastic americans throw away 2 5 million plastic bottles every hour knowing that every piece of plastic ever made still exists made me more aware than usual of the amount of plastic in our lives despite the fact that i thought i was a discerning shopper almost every item that i used for making breakfast and lunch on the day i wrote this was in single use plastic packaging i have started collecting items which may be used in my final piece whilst this research saddened and frightened me enormously it also made me want to express these feelings through my wall hanging i became excited by the possibilities of how i could represent some of these issues my starting point on developing design ideas was to create a list of words that related to my theme of plastic pollution in the ocean image 8 9 as the list of words shows my thoughts were about the plastics smothering and overpowering the oceans and sea life within them i then used papers to create shapes and compositions that represented some of these words as follows image 8 10 enveloped images 8 11 and 8 12 dominated images 8 13 and 8 14 trapped images 8 15 and 8 16 overpowered image 8 17 choked images 8 18 and 8 19 smothered images 8 20 and 8 21 stifled the course notes suggested further exercises using papers to help with the design process after discussion with sian we agreed that these would be of limited help as i had already developed some design ideas which i had discussed with sian at summer school and so i worked on the following ideas contrasts i thought about a number of contrasts to represent the plastics and the delicate organisms man made organic hard edges of plastics soft edges of plants and animals bright vibrant colours of organisms white or obscured surfaces of plastics shapes i wanted to use repeated shapes in my design that could represent both the plastic and natural organisms i decided on circles for a number of reasons representing the natural world like a globe ripples from water drops make circles cross section of plastic bottles are circular circles trap enclose things inside them plastics are made from numerous chemicals circles connected together will look like atoms in an atomic structure similarly they could be atoms of h2o i e water image 8 22 sketchbook page materials for the sea life organisms i decided to use soluble fabrics and machine embroidery threads to create delicate brightly coloured pieces the sea life pieces would be representational i e they would represent all living organisms in the sea rather than looking specifically like fish coral seaweed etc i decided to use a range of plastics to explore the best way to represent the smothering plastic pollution structure i decided that i wanted the wall hanging to be made up of numerous elements loosely connected together so that they could move and undulate like the ocean the smaller elements should each represent either plastic natural organisms or both i e the natural organisms being smothered by the plastic one of my early ideas was to use sections cut from plastic bottles to create rings which would have embroidered pieces trapped within them i experimented with ways of making these plastic rings having cut several rings from plastic bottles i tried different methods of melting them i wanted them to stay circular but to loose the look that they had just been cut from a bottle the most successful method was to put a metal pastry cutter inside a plastic ring and then melt it around the cutter using a hot air gun image 8 23 having created plastic rings in this way i explored ways of attaching embroidered pieces i made a few stitched samples using soluble fleece and tried to suspend them within the rings using nylon thread image 8 24 and 8 25 my idea was to connect these rings using nylon thread into a net type structure however i decided that this approach didn t really depict the sense of obscuration or smothering enough i therefore decided to explore different ideas image 8 26 sketchbook page i thought about creating plastic pods which could contain some of the organisms image 8 27 plastic pod this had possibilities but looked too clumsy i thought about using plastic milk bottle plastic as it is semi transparent and so is able to partially obscure things behind it images 8 28 and 8 29 i liked the idea of partially obscuring the stitched pieces and explored that further i wanted to investigate methods of combining plastic with stitch so that there could be some kind of graduation in the wall hanging i e delicate stitched pieces representing the un smothered organisms pieces that combined plastic and stitch i e starting to be overpowered and then just plastic pieces where the plastic had dominated the ocean i decided to use some plastic lace and stitch on top of it image 8 30 and 8 31 i cut some plastic carrier bags into thin strips and then melted them between greaseproof paper using an iron image 8 32 i tried different types of polythene to find the best material the white plastic melted better than this see through polythene image 8 33 and 8 34 i sandwiched these pieces of plastic lace between aquabond and some transparent soluble film and machine embroidered through it to create combined plastic stitch samples image 8 35 i was quite pleased with the way that these turned out they had a slightly mutated appearance like nature gone wrong in some way as if it had been corrupted by the plastic i then explored ways of combining these pieces with other plastics image 8 36 sketchbook page i tried cutting circles from the milk bottle plastic images8 37 and 8 38 the milk bottle plastic was easy to stitch through and so i was able to merge the stitched piece with it when suspended it became slightly transparent and showed the embroidered piece in places which gave the impression that i wanted i e the natural organism fighting for space through the plastic i then tried bonding circles of carrier bag plastic together to see how it could be used image 8 39 i tried cutting circles from it and placing the embroidered pieces behind as if they had been trapped images 8 40 and 8 41 this gave the impression of obscuring the embroidered pieces quite well but became too solid i e it didn t flow or undulate i then used the circles that i had cut from the bonded plastic bags and threaded them on to a batten i did the same with the embroidered pieces and put them behind the plastic pieces image 8 42 and 8 43 this was starting to get closer to what i was aiming for a freely hanging structure with plastic sections partly obscuring the embroidered sections i then created a number of samples which were embroidered on soluble fabric with no plastic i e the delicate natural organisms image 8 44 embroidered samples before dissolving the fleece image 8 45 after dissolving the fleece i didn t rinse the pieces too much in order to leave some residue in the thread to give body using various elements from my explorations i decided on the following structure see image 8 46 image 8 46 sketchbook page of graduated structure the top of the wall hanging represents the surface of the ocean in one of the gyres a surface entirely covered in plastic the bottom of the hanging represents the beautiful sea life which is free of plastic from the bottom upwards the nature samples become more and more enmeshed with plastic until the top layer which is wholly plastic the wall hanging comprises five different elements as shown in image 8 47 plastic circles plastic circles combined with plastic lace plastic circles combined with embroidered plastic lace embroidered plastic lace embroidered circles image 8 47 leave a comment module 6 chapter 7 june 26 2018 janechippstitch use of dissolvable fabrics in this chapter i explored the use of dissolvable fabrics or paper to make lace type textile samples i had a few different types of dissolvable materials and bought a couple more shown below in image 7 1 image 7 1 different types of dissolvable backgrounds i cut pieces of the various dissolvable backgrounds stretched them in a hoop and stitched a sample about 1 5 inches square using the same pattern of stitching in each i then cut the samples out and dissolved the base fabric the results were then dried and attached in my sketch...