Non space final piece

After my research was complete, I developed ideas and carried out experimental samples in order to reach a final design. I used three different areas - relating to dreams to represent my concept. 

These were: -  sleep stages

          - nightmares 

          - children's dreams

 I represented these separate areas by using various textile techniques and put these into a quilt form. My initial idea was to create the quilt cover and also for it to have another use as a book. This was so that it could reflect back to when children were young and bed time stories were read to them by their parent/guardian. This would be the first stages of dreams occurring. When the quilt was complete, I did not feel good about displaying the finished piece in my hand made book. The main reason being the detail in the quilt as a whole was lost as it was all folded up and hidden. I therefore had to display my quilt on the wall so that it could be clearly seen.

As much as I enjoyed making this quilt, I realised that my designs and techniques used were both very time consuming. I felt as though I was rushing to complete it in time which meant when it was finished, I was unhappy with the outcome - because I knew it was rushed.

 So let's try and scrape a positive out the barrel here and say I was happy that I managed to encorporate the two new techniques I learned into my final piece. These were crocheting and creating a repeat pattern on illustrator. The crocheting will definitely be a technique that I will progress with currently and in the future as I really got the hang of it. But really, I shouldn't have tried to learn a new technique (illustrator) in so little time escpecially when it comes to using computers... Blonde for a reason Ruth.