Today we have had our last Locating tutorial, so ultimately it was the time to ask any last questions and get everything together and sorted for next week's assessment. I was feeling quite nervous beforehand, which is understandable as doesn't everybody feel worried around the last week of a unit? However, I told myself not to worry, as it just makes things harder and I'll get nothing done.
For the first time since starting our Locating unit, everyone turned up. It meant that as a group we were finally able to see everybody's work placed together, to see how different we all are and how we all work. On the other hand it was slightly annoying because it would've been much nicer to follow the journey of everybody's work instead of just seeing the start and end results.
After what felt like a really, really long time, it was finally my turn.
We spoke about the context of my work, in agreement that costume design is an idea that I should think more about, alongside previously mentioned textiles designing for fashion. This said, there really isn't any rush as to deciding where it is that I want to be placed after graduation right now, but now that I have this idea, it will help with finishing my P&E task this week.
Sample wise, the shibori pieces that I had created yesterday were seen as an exciting idea, with the group commenting that it was nice to see knots being brought back into the unit through sampling. I had also been playing on the Irish machine as recommended last week. The overall feedback was that I had obviously got to grips with the industrials very quickly. Critically addressing the samples, both myself and Fiona felt that I had made the wrong choice with the yarn colour, however this is something that can easily be looked at in my final week.
Also, I had put in an order for some digital prints, only using a plain, lace patterned design, printed on both georgette and cotton satin (light and medium weights) to act as a base for my samples instead of creating a base fabric like usual. This will hopefully work well.
In terms of what I will be doing up until deadline on Monday, I shall be looking at my unit as a whole, getting everything finalised and presented, and making sure that there is a clear continuation from start to ending ideas across both briefs. I also need to finish my dreaded Professionalism and Employbility report, which now that I have identified a route that I would like to explore in the textile market, shouldn't take me too long.
I am really looking forward to our New York trip now, so I as well as finishing my units, I have a lot to sort our before next Thursday, meaning that it is going to be a good indication as to how well I work under pressure!