weaving like a viking

i've been so obsessed with weaving since summer. i've been watching videos on how to weave on youtube and i stumbled upon the viking weave. i never tried it until a few days ago when our workshop was about wire art.

tutorial can be found here:
http://youtu.be/_Ynf5jjpL1U

i have wire but i don't have the block with the holes where the loops are compressed into a pretty chain. luckily (well, not really), my dad undergoes dialysis twice a week. my mom suggested that i use the tubes. then i realized that the plastic clamp things can do the job just fine. before all this, i've contracted my dad to make me a block thing. at least now he doesn't have to go through all that trouble.

I was too excited to make my bracelet that I forgot to take a picture of the chain before it got compressed.

it's really great that the workshop was about wire art. it was a great opportunity for me to explore wires. i could have learned more from class but i've realized that i shouldn't expect too much from my classmates. their references for their workshop are accessible to me, which is why there's always a chance that i'd already know what they're about to teach me unless they've had a class under an expert.

what to wear

textures and prints have a tendency to be tacky. i've seen episodes of HowDoILook on the Lifestyle network where the victim has too much print or too much fur. i could not understand how stores still produce tacky clothing, and why consumers keep patronizing them, then i realized that clothes that are tacky for me, might not be tacky for others. it's always a matter of taste and style. we just have to be aware of the occasion and how people expect us to behave whenever we are faced with fashion dilemmas.

i'm not really a fan of the show How Do I Look because their approach is too personal. they have a tendency of attacking the person's taste, which is still part of their personality. they make it too dramatic. i like the show What Not To Wear on TLC because they criticize the clothes of the person. it doesn't hurt as much. they tell you how clothes affect the way you look and how it can be improved. they give you guidelines and let you think on your own. i like the show because they tell you what's wrong then teach you how it can become better.

i will never dream of becoming a style consultant. all that i'd tell them is wear whatever you want because i'd much rather be worrying about the future of the clothing industry than bother thinking about what to wear.

educated

i hate it when my academics interfere with my education. i can't wait for the sem break. i need new clothes. i need a dress-form now please

paper

it's fun to play around with paper. and it's biodegradable

http://pin4fun6660.blogspot.com

http://www.inewidea.com/2011/10/06/40650.html

http://packaginguqam.blogspot.com/2012/03/t-milagros-maria-bouroncle-rodriguez.html

http://uponafold.com.au/blog/post/janna-syvanoja/#

http://uponafold.com.au/blog/post/sabrina-transiskus/

http://media-cache0.pinterest.com/upload/24488391694468883_eiGOYEPu.jpg

tie dye, decoupage, mosaic

jobos is what it's more popularly known. we also call it venus because that's the brand name of the dye that's very popular for making tie dye stuff. it's cheap and easy to find. it's an instant update to cotton garments. I enjoyed the workshop. I turned a normal white muslin jacket into a distressed looking jacket. the gods of the 70's will be proud of me for trying to bring the hand-me-down look back in style.

unfortunately, when I checked the safety information of sulfanilic acid (one of the components of the dye), it wasn't really meant to dye clothing. this component causes skin irritation. hopefully, the amount of substance is so small that it would not cause harmful effects.

honestly, I appreciate tie dyeing more than I did decoupage. maybe it's because all we did was paste stuff on top of the thing that we want to embellish. it's so simple that I don't feel motivated to decoupage anything. revamping has never been my thing. I'd rather make something new from scratch and create something overly minimalist than take a semi-broken thing and try to fix it by making it look different. I feel like it's putting too much time and effort into fixing something that ain't broke. I have a similar perception of mosaic but I would really want to make a mosaic out of tiles someday in our backyard. I don't see it as a skill that I could and would ever use in accessories making but I can really use it at home in the garden.

shapes and style

what's beautiful about clothes is that they're things that you could easily change and replace. they're external. they can be used to make you look a certain way only if you know what you're doing and if you have the resources to make it happen. vertical lines make you longer, horizontal lines make you wider. these are old rules. if no one who is a plus size wants to look fatter than they already are, why do we still have plus size clothes with horizontal cuts in their dresses? because there's more to to the rules than straight forward horizontal and vertical.

not everyone we design for will be model size. there will be horizontally challenged clients in our lifetime and we'd be forced to create something to make them look great. I don't understand how seasoned designers prioritize their creative point of view and create something that only looks great on a mannequin. not everyone who graduated from design school are successful as designers because not everything that looks good in books translate well in the real world.

flowers on a dress

finally done with my floral dress. there's an invisible zipper at the side. you can't see it because it's invisible.

i was thinking about making it a dress instead of a top, but i ran out of fabric. i only bought 1 yard of this last year. it's cotton voile from kamuning market. it's the first time to sew an empire cut garment using my pattern making skills. congratulate me. it fits me perfectly :)

unfortunately, my tripod lost its camera mount device thingie. now, i can't use it because i can't place the camera on the tripod. i had to do it manually, and my camera's so heavy. the weather wasn't cooperating with me either. it was dark, so i had to increase the ISO number. at least the noise didn't ruin the pattern on the fabric. i don't really like floral patterns, but i'm happy with what i came up with

color schemes

complementary

red-violet + yellow green

http://www.academichic.com/2011/06/01/1-june-2011-last-day-of-classes/

magenta + teal

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/powersearch/slideshow?loop=0&event=show2182&trend=trend22&iphoto=18&play=false&cnt=19

analogous

pink + orange + yellow

http://romanticjourneys.tumblr.com/

purple + lavender + pink

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/powersearch/slideshow?loop=0&event=show2182&trend=trend22&iphoto=39&play=false&cnt=44

triad

light blue + violet + orange

http://fabliz.wordpress.com/tag/achromatic/

light blue + violet + orange

http://www.academichic.com/tag/triads/

split complementary

violet + red + yellow

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/powersearch/slideshow?loop=0&event=show2182&trend=trend22&iphoto=54&play=false&cnt=67

tetrad

yellow green, green, purple, red

http://www.womens-styles.com/fantasy-maxi-print-flower-wedding-dress-2012-for-women.html

yellow, green, violet, red

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/powersearch/slideshow?loop=0&event=show2182&trend=trend22&iphoto=65&play=false&cnt=78

square

pink + lt. green + yellow orange + lt. blue

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/powersearch/slideshow?loop=0&event=show2182&trend=trend22&iphoto=38&play=false&cnt=39

monochromatic

white + red + pink

http://www.womens-styles.com/fantasy-maxi-print-flower-wedding-dress-2012-for-women.html

brown + yellow

http://fabliz.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/ms-match/

achromatic

black and gray

http://dress.ankletss.com/miss-sixty-black-dress/

Carolina Herrera - Resort 2013
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/fullscreen/2013RST-CHERRERA/

Colors were mostly monochromatic, which gives the whole collection a sense of sophistication, but there were some pieces where they explored with colors.

The scheme is a primary triad. The colors were evenly dispersed all through the dress, making it balanced and equally sophisticated as the rest of the pieces.

the color wheel

http://realcolorwheel.com/othercolorwheel.htm
RGB and CMYK are the colors that I'm more familiar with. check the link for the diagrams and all. the RGB color wheel makes more sense to me because it involves light and their wavelengths. mixing pigments is not always consistent. different coloring brands give different results. if you go make a website and edit the color, #000000 will always be black, #ffffff will always be white. and btw, i love hexadecimals.

if the color wheel really does work, why is it that we have to force ourselves to create colors take on a particular scheme? shouldn't it be a no brainer if color combinations work well? and why is it that colors that are supposed to clash look nice against each other?

the RYB color wheel was originally created because they realized that if you add red paint to yellow paint, we get orange. but who said that red and green would look great together? why does pink and blue look nice together when they have a weird relationship in the color wheel? just saying.