Well I’ve made a start on the next activity, which is to do some hawaiian appliqué. I had to make my own design. I thought it was quite interesting how the design developed with each new attempt so I’ll share the process by posting them all.
This was the first attempt. The starting point is an 8 inch square of paper folded into eighths as a triangle. You then take a pair of scissors and start chopping out bits of paper until you get this.
It wasn’t very inspiring and still looked much like a square with holes cut out. I realised that I needed to be more adventurous with the scissors and cut up into the bottom of the triangle more, i.e. on the third edge with no folds. This is the second attempt.
Don’t ask why the photographer chose to set this on point. It’s just one of those things. A little better, but it still doesn’t grab you. At this point I decided that the centre of the first attempt had potential so I played around with that as a starting point. I tried to make the third edge more interesting, which lead to this one:
Getting there but the corners were too fussy for my liking. So I tried to use the shapes I already had to make the corners more integral to the overall design. My fourth attempt is the one I plan to turn into a piece of hawaiian appliqué.
That’s as far as I’ve got at the moment. I’ve done some hawaiian appliqué before and used a completely different method. I’ve decided to follow the instructions in the course just to compare the 2 methods. I can’t help thinking that I shall be agreeing with Lori’s comments in this post, see point one. There was none of this stopping and snipping in the method I learnt. We shall see.
