How to Look After Your Wool
'I would love something like this but wool is so itchy and it shrinks!' You would not believe the number of times I have heard this! Wool...
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Elfy
- May 25, 2021
- 5 min
Textile Collection: Technical Journal
I'm going to go through the technical processes and information for each of the textiles in my final textile collection. For the other...
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Elfy
- May 24, 2021
- 3 min
Final Garment: Technical Process
Part 1: Toiling After deciding on a design, the next step was to dissect the look into its parts to get an idea of what the flat pattern...
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Elfy
- Oct 3, 2020
- 2 min
Week 1!
Lets hit the ground running! Being back at grays is weird, but it feels so great to have a studio again, a dedicated workspace that isn't...
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Elfy
- Sep 20, 2020
- 2 min
Lets go honours year
Here we go... Honours year! honestly I am excited, I feel as though I have purpose, a drive to make something special, and to actually...
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Elfy
- Aug 10, 2020
- 5 min
Handknit: a lesson in slow fashion
Last week was a sort of breaking point for me. My knitting machine was playing up, the internet went down for 4 days and my oven broke...
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Elfy
- Jul 18, 2020
- 3 min
Things to remember when working for yourself.
I've just made a business... and it has made me realise a few things. I keep having to remind myself that I am working hard, and even if...
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Elfy
- Jun 29, 2020
- 2 min
I made a business!
The past few months have been hard for everyone, it has been a once in a lifetime kind of event that hopefully, we will never have to...
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Elfy
- Mar 25, 2020
- 2 min
Knit Workshop 2020 week 5
Fashioning, Shaping, Finishing samples and Plating. Fashioning/ shaping samples on the industrial machines works exactly the same as on...
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Elfy
- Mar 25, 2020
- 2 min
Knit Workshop 2020 week 4
Ribs and Tucks. This week I worked on the 7 gauge machine using the cream mercerised cotton I used last week and I also introduced an...
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Elfy
- Mar 24, 2020
- 1 min
Knit Workshop 2020 week 3
This week I worked on the 7 gauge using a beautiful cream mercerised cotton yarn. To make it thick enough for the 7 gauge I had to feed 2...
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Elfy
- Mar 24, 2020
- 1 min
Knit Workshop 2020 Week 2
This week had its fair share of restarting. I jumped straight onto the 10 gauge, I figured the best way to learn was to take on the...
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Elfy
- Mar 24, 2020
- 1 min
Knit Workshop 2020 week 1
This is the workshop I was most looking forward to this semester, learning how to use the industrial Dubied machines is one of the...
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Elfy
- Mar 23, 2020
- 2 min
Working Outwith
The last week has been a time of massive upheaval for everyone. We were left in a state of confusion and fear since last Thursday. It...
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Elfy
- Mar 19, 2020
- 1 min
Advanced Pattern Cutting Week 5
The end! Final Toile: I am quite happy with my final toile, I am definitely more confident in my pattern cutting skills now that I have...
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Elfy
- Mar 19, 2020
- 2 min
Advanced Pattern Cutting Week 4
Toile 1 My pattern for toile 1 worked quite well, I was happy with the pockets, the thickness of the waistband and the length, however, I...
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Elfy
- Mar 18, 2020
- 1 min
Advanced Pattern Cutting Week 3
Time To Sew! Sewing Together 1. Sew together waistband pieces along the long edge. 2. Sew together 2 of the pocket decorations, turn...
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Elfy
- Mar 18, 2020
- 1 min
Advanced Pattern Cutting Week 2
I spent a while this week figuring out how to sew a placket and fly- there are guides out there but I didn't find many of them helpful,...
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Elfy
- Mar 18, 2020
- 3 min
Advanced Pattern Cutting Class Week 1
15 hours, 1 photograph, and a whole lot of calico... What could go wrong?! Week 1. Dissection. To start we were given a photograph of a...
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Elfy
- Mar 8, 2020
- 2 min
We The Brave.
The key to making people understand your project is to nail exactly what it is. That may sound quite simple, but when you start a project...
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