The finished product...

BRANDING
When it came to branding our T-shirts we used pinterest for inspiration. We came up with an idea which we all agreed on and worked as a team to create them by firstly drawing thumbnails, we then worked as a team to construct them. Using CAD for our swing tags which we did during class time we then layered this with acetate and cut work which adorned was a kirby grip.

We then moved on to our sew in labels, we began these at home dying up calico with the same black dye we used for our T-shirts. We also got a metallic gold sharpie which we then used to embellish our label. We then sewed the edges to make them neat whilst leaving the top and bottom frayed and edgy as we liked this effect. 

                  

We are happy with our final product and think it goes well as a collection. 

         

             



  

T-Shirts

 DESIGNS SO FAR..

We have now finished our final Tshirt designs, and now we are working towards branding our garments. Our branding will all be the same on the T-shirts to make it apparent that it is a collection. When we were making our T-shirts we all decided to embellish a certain area, Caitlin focused on the neck and bottom of the Tshirt, Jade focused on the neck and middle and Kirsty focused on embellishing the bottom. We think our T-shirts have worked well as a collection.

 




  

Caitlin's Tshirt




Jade's Tshirt

Kirsty's Tshirt



Blogging

THE BLOG
As part of our course we were asked to create a blog. We found this to be a great way of documenting our companies design progress. As this was our first blog we tried our best to make the blog look professional and ties in with our theme in terms of the structural format and colour layout.

Sampling

SAMPLES
We created thumbnail ideas exploring different options of how we could incorporate the kirbie grips into our garments. We then were given 2 hours in class time to create two samples ideas. Previous to this we dyed up our jersey knit samples at home using different techniques. As we needed to produce a collection of tshirts each member of the team selected a different area of the garment to embellish.

Planning for samples

PLAN
We were given a budget of £6 each to spend however we like. We researched different types and styles of kirbies and where to buy them from for the best price. We created a colour palette using the source images that we used in our mood boards, these colours consisted of metalics, black, silver, gold, blue and orange as highlight colours. We decided that our garments would be heavy embellished and work as part of a collection. We collected different colours of kirbie grips, safety pins, threads, beads, dye and bought large mens plain white tshirts for sampling the following week.

In the beginning...

WIRED UP
We are a textile design company with the ideology that heavy embellishment creates an irrisistable garment. Within our PDP class we have been given a brief to produce a tshirt using kirbie grips. After been given the brief we researched different techniques and styles to use the kirbies on the garment and created a mood board full of inspiration.