To finalise my look when I was researching my nan and looking at what she has in her flat I found an occurrence of pop socks laying around her flat as she wears them all time and then my mum told me that she used to wear a head scarf when she was younger especially when she went out. When I was researching my mum told me that she threw them all out when she got older which is quite ironic as we always picture them on older people and the idea of me bringing them back just shows me renewing clothing and creating something new that will meet with my customer. After testing on pop socks with the same pink with the pink paint and the same with the head scarf. The pop socks came out successfully however when I stretched them they did lose a bit of colour from when I first printed on them. But when seeing on my feet you could still see the pattern and shapes but just not as bold. I actually quite like that they aren’t as bold because I feel that I would be to much. When it came to the head scarf printing I made the mistake of printing it on the heat press when the print was larger then the machine which left me with white line across my print. I had to come up with something that will cover these lines so I used similar parts of the print and replaced the lines. However, not all the lines where gone so when I fold the head scarf into a triangle I have to make sure that the lines go against the head so that you don’t see them. In a way its kind of good because then I know where to fold it and looks perfect because then you can’t see the bottom part of the scarf. If I was to do it again I would of done it on the roller instead of the heat press especially when the print is bigger then the machine.
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