School Art and Design Project

The finished product

A couple of weeks ago we started an art and design project in school. The idea was to make old clothes look better and really get the feel of design. Me and M decided to work together on a t-shirt she had brought in herself.

We both love to sew so we decided to actually make a skirt from scratch. I brought in my sewing machine and everything worked perfectly. M brought in some orange fabric that we made the skirt out of.

The project took us about five lessons to complete and we also had to complete a booklet about what we made and how we made it. The way we made it was to make the skirt with a pattern I found online. I did all of that and I had some problems at the beginning but when I got it going I did it quite quickly.

M worked on the t-shirt. She chopped the sleeve off it and put a button to sort of gather it. She also gathered it a bit more down the side so it was tighter. The neck of the t-shirt was quite tight so she made it looser and it was a lot better.

I then sewed the fully done t-shirt to the skirt which was easy but it wasn't a completely straight line in the end and it was quite a low waist. Our initial idea was to put plastic bags over the skirt but we decided to use netting instead. M had already cut a hole in it but I thought it looked quite funky like that.

We also made a bag, a bracelet with a plastic bag flower and a necklace with a couple of feathers on the end.

Overall, the project was really fun and a great way to spend time in school. We both loved doing it and thought the end product was brilliant.