BA2b: week 7

Tuesday

Today we met as a group for the rebel tartan work, it was good to come together and try to create a final outcome, our samples worked really well together but they weren’t big enough to create anything with. We then had our tutorial where we scrapped the skirt I had spent the weekend pattern cutting, I am now really concerned as that was my main bit, everyone else has loads of samples but whilst they have been doing that I have been doing all the pattern cutting that they ask me to do, but now none of it is being used and I look like I have done nothing, I am going to do some hand embroidery tonight ready for the presentation tomorrow.

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Wednesday

​I don’t think I have ever cried so much about embroidery before, I spent 5 hours last night doing a hand embroidery of spoons making up a tartan all out of metallic thread on dissolvable fabric only for it all to fall apart when I dissolved the fabric. Now I really have nothing to show for my hard work, I feel so stupid for not taking pictures of my final piece before putting it in the water but I was just so excited to be done and to see the final piece.
When we were at uni I made the group presentation and offered to lead the presentation as I knew nobody wanted to do this and I felt like I had really let the team down, it's been a really tough few weeks so this really did just top it all off.
I am really proud of our group though as we only had 4 members at the end which had made it quite difficult to create a final piece as there wasn’t enough of us. But I am also proud of myself for standing up in front of everyone and talking, the one thing that scares me almost as much as snakes!