Final Review

On Monday I had my final review with Antje and the class.  It went surprisingly well.

Feedback was:

Tea Towels
- General title to be My Mother's Work as it is more personal, rather than Women's Work
- The gelatin grid for cross stitch words works well.  Very accurate.
- Work the words all the way round the tea towels, and put less space between the phrases.
- Writing size good for size of tea towel.
- Consider whether to place image in centre, with words all way round, or image to one side with words from edge to edg of imagery.
- Red too Christmassy/tomatoey. More blueish red would be better.  (Lisa asked me to steam the colour swatch digital test fabric and will show me how to pick the right standard colour tomorrow)
- Show one tea towel hanging, and the rest flat.
- Work out how to do hanging loop well
- Proportions not right yet.  Work out area of standard tea towel, then get same area for round tea towel by calculating pie R squared.  (great idea!)
- Put the two white lines with writing in between right round the tea towel, as on roller towel.  Links pieces well.  This would mean the design has to be centred.

Roller Towels
- Samples of commercial roller towel fabric that I had soaked in soda ash, and Lisa had done the trial digital print were very successful.  Thank you Lisa.
- Class liked the words and fonts (emulating the Glass Cloth scripts).  Women's Work to be changed to My Mother's Work.
- Debate about how to display.  Wooden rollers, or commercial machine?  Commercial machine(s) would be expensive.  Narrow width of commercial roller towel fabric means I need to get wooden rollers specially made.  Investigate.
- Class prefer wooden ones, as it relates better to work.

Stools
-Antje and class prefer use of second hand stool rather than new custom made.
- Must be a kitchen stool.
- What about my Mum's old step stool?
- But it was not designed to have a cushioned top?

Curtains
- Hand drawn, but incomplete objects on collage pieces, put into half drop repeat on coloured stripe background. Objects maybe 12" high?
- Seam in to curtains 6' high wooden spoon as a stripe.  To be "overlooked".
- Testing of colouration - needs to be right.

This review went better than any other.  Probably  because I am on a high at present, and now I am just getting on and doing, and handling quite a lot of fabric, I feel quite a lot better.  Thank goodness!