Sunday 17 February 2013

Full Equipment List (for arts challenge)

Whilst I'm waiting for an opportunity to get around to taking pictures of my finished tops and corset I thought I'd post a full equipment list since that seems to be a thing. Here goes...

Silk Panels: 
Silk-like fabric
Fabric paints
Fabric paint lightener
Brushes
Water
Paper (to put on the floor so it didn't get paint-y)
Computer (for entertainment purposes only)

T-shirts: 
Primark t-shirts
Screen (for screen printing)
Squeegee (for screen printing)
Stencils (for screen printing)
Paints (for screen printing)
Scanner (for scanning in the finished screen prints)
Image transfer paper
Printer (for printing the images onto transfer paper)
Iron

Patchwork Corset:
Old toile 
Newspaper (for pattern pieces)
Pencil (for drawing pattern pieces)
Chalk (for drawing onto material)
Scissors
Fabric for lining, brown twill
Fabric for back, burgundy silk
Fabric scraps for front
Fabric paint (for printing with)
Cardboard (for collagraphs)
Glue (for collagraphs)
Scraps of paper, foil, cellophane, paper, card (for collagraphs)
Acrylic paint (to be mixed with textile medium)
Textile medium
Brushes
Boards and paper (to cover the table)
Iron (to fix the fabric paint)
Pins
Sewing machine
Needles
Thread
Steel busk bones with closing clasps
Steel lacing bones
Steel bones, both 13mm and 7mm wide
Black eyelets
Eyelet kit
Hammer
Tissue (for wiping blood from fingers).

Well, there ya go!

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Plan/steps for corset-making:
1: create collagraphs
2: draft pattern
3: cut out lining and back sections
4: print on the fabric scraps (see post about that here)
5: iron to fix paints
6: pin scraps together and sew (sew lining and back pieces as well, see some of that here)
7: iron flat
8: cut front segments from sewn together scrap pieces
9: sew front sections together
10: sew all the gather elements of the corset together
11: start inserting boning using pins
12: sew boning in
13: insert busk bones and lacing bones
14: sew in
15: put eyelets in (in the lacing bones)
16: slit material over hooks and stitch around them
17: lace with ribbon and wear

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