FMP Final Evaluation

From my whole journey through my FMP I feel that I used my skills that I have developed through developmental stage which has really allowed me to advance in an area and topic that I have enjoyed so much. I feel that I have learnt a lot more about my nan and the person that she used to be at a younger age from the old family photos and the furniture and wallpapers that she has in her flat. I feel that my research has expanded from what I was going to originally research when I first started my project and found new ways at looking at using objects in a fashion, conceptual way. I also wanted my project to be as sustainable friendly as possible, especially when creating for my final piece and my toile. When I needed to use knit for my toile I wanted to use that same material for my toile so that I knew what the top would look like and how I would fit it to the body. However, to save me money and to be more sustainably I went to the charity shop and brought a cardigan the same sort of thickness and stretch that I wanted to use in my final garment and used this to create the toile for my top. When creating the knit for my final piece I wanted to make sure that I didn’t waste any knit so I made sure that what I was going to knit on the machine was going to be the right size for the top which I really liked because then I didn’t have to cut the top or throw any yarn away that I didn’t use because I used all of it. However, for my final garment I did use polyester satin which is not sustainable and not good for the environment, in addition, I wanted my whole garment to be printed and synthetic materials are the best to print on because they have the most pigment, but by using a sublimation printer as a method of applying the colour to the fabric it doesn’t create water waste and polluted water. Overall I feel that this project has mainly pushed me to create more and to be more inventive with what I used, where I resource it from, looking at other ways of doing things and problem solving my way through, especially when creating my garment such as the skirt and making a shirt it has really pushed me to do these thing that I didn’t plan in my proposal at the beginning by having one garment to having four garments and two accessories.