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Well today has been a pretty long day, and i haven't really got much to show for it, haven't really done anything productive either, it's just been one of those days where i haven't felt like doing much. I had a night out for my best friends birthday last night and so was a bit tired and just spent all day browsing the internet (what's new there?) I'm becoming a massive twitter addict. My partner Dean spent one night on my twitter account connecting me to loads of people within the industry and it's really paid off, i now have nearly 200 followers!! It just allows me to be connected to people within the design industry, everyone's constantly updating on it, i can find out what's on, such as markets, fairs, exhibitions etc, Get to know different artists in various areas on expertise. I'm getting the hang of all these hash tags though and it's exciting!!

So i've been uploading loads of pictures on to my twitter account and a couple onto my Pinterest, i came across a few really really old pieces i had done as well that brought back old memories, some pieces went back as far as high school!

This was a project i did in college, it was basic on 'The expression of colour in music' It included lots of research, imagery and experimentation of techniques. The above piece is a small wall hanging and it is basically a patch work of many smaller samples, each patch has been died in a different way, including tiedye, batik and bleeding dry dye onto wet fabric. I have then added extra dimension by embroidering over the top or felting certain ones, also mono printing and lino printing has been used. Each patch is based on a music visualization for a different song like on windows media player.

Here was my final outcome for my exam i think it was if i remember rightly, i created a lampshade cover using the same techniques as above, In order to add depth and more complexity to my final i chose to use all of my favourite techniques onto the one piece. For the base i bled dry dye onto wet fabric, allowed  it to dry and then created a mono print over the top in contrasting colours. I then used my sewing machine and embroidered some designs into it. Once completed i then used a thick yarn in a bright pink and used blanket stitch to attach the cover to the frame of the lamp. I used blanket stitch as i wanted the seams to be on show in order to purposely put across the impression of it been handmade. 

The images of the lamps are obviously photographs of photographs and so full potential is not really seen, especially the image of it turned on.