Recycled Runway Fashion Show is the key focus to Fashion Club with Tat. We've moved beyond the standard Fourth Friday meetings in order to keep up with a tight schedule and looming deadline. This is the portion of classes where everyone just follows what is instructed.
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| Today, we are sewing plastic and denim. |
Tetyana Buchholz, Tat, is the mastermind behind this program series and has all of the ideas and techniques stored in her experience. Teens are quilting images between plastic and denim.
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| Life Skills, recycled |
Learning to make chains with Blue Apron packaging keeps these teens very busy!
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| Hot Glue can be a crafter's best friend. |
In creating "Glitter Ghost," our proposed design, we are striving for an ethereal look. Trying to mute the glitz of light-catching silver is difficult. The loops end up flattened in this first attempted method. Testing the materials so early in the game (we haven't even gotten the official word that our design is approved) is important, because what you intend the material to do versus what it actually does is a time hog.
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| Strips of Packaging |
Strips of packaging are cut, then glued into loops. The strategic placement of these loops creates an interlocking system, or "fabric," which will be a main focal point of this design.
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| Loopy Fiasco |
Although we're almost 5 hours into this design, the loops must keep going!
Like I mentioned, this task is a time hog.
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| Quilting with Trash |
While one team worked in the Looping Station, another team quilted with trash. Taking denim, printed tissue paper, and clear plastic pouches, a new fabric has been developed.
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| Hazy Imagery |
The plastic over the images give a hazy quality, lending to the ethereal feel. We'll be working on this portion of the design for a few more hours to perfect the technique. It's great to have gotten an extra work day in February, because of Winter Break. Our dedicated designers were willing to forego their school vacation and work towards the completion of this community project. They are excited to follow directions and keep the wheels turning, knowing the vision will come together and once it does, they will have important input to the final details of this design. Many hands make light work. Many teens make this fun!
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| More Imagery |
This concludes 2 more Fashion Clubs with Tat.
Check back next month to see our progress.
Thanks for visiting!
~erica
