Skills Term
During your skills term, you are required to produce a short project for your homework.
You need to find out as much as you can about textiles, focusing on surface decoration. This project must be a minimum of 6 A4 pages, but you can extend on this should you wish to. It should include written informatin that you have researched and written up in your own words with personal comment and evaluations of what you have found as well as sketches, photographs or print outs of relevant images. The finished piece of work should be presented in booklet form at the start of week 4 of your skills term.
Areas you must investigate:
What is a sewing machine
What is a sewing machine used for
Common stitches that can be produced on a sewing machine
Equipment that is used in a sewing room
How to applique on to fabrics
Examples of designers who use applique designs
Examples of products that use applique
How to machine embroider
Examples of machine embroidered products
Examples of designers use machine embroidery in their products
An idea of how you could plan your homework schedule:
Week 1 -
Investigate the sewing machine and equipment
Week 2 -
Investigate methods of how to applique on fabric
Week 3 -
Investigate machine embroidery techniques
Present all work
Week 4 -
Hand in
