Today I focused on textiles again as I don't feel like I'm quite ready to start designing. I used the knitting machine and tried to recreate the african design in it but as I was doing it without a pattern it didn't quite work out how I wanted it to. Before I try this again I'm going to attempt to make my own knitting pattern and see how it works out.
Next I moved on to digital print. To inspire it I used an African textile which has a really interesting grid template which was then repeated. I used drawings that I'd done throughout my sketchbook and arranged them in a similar pattern to the original print. I used a colour scheme that I'd created from one of the photos of the Omo tribe. I think this was a successful first try but I don't like all of the elements such as the polka dots so I'm going to keep playing with this print and hopefully I'll come up with something I can use in the final collection.
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