Artefact- Breakfast table cloth
- irisflora
- Apr 9, 2024
- 5 min read
Updated: Apr 14, 2024
Initial mood board:
To begin my skills passport project, I started by sketching ideas and then looking on Pinterest for inspiration. My initial idea was to create a picnic blanket hat that would have appliqué foods and plates on it and to make it come out of a wicker picnic basket. After brainstorming more on my idea I decided that I wanted to instead create a table cloth instead of a hat as the hat would be quite heavy on the head.
The skill I've used from skills passport is Lino cutting and Mask Making. From the Mask Making project, I've decided to use Plasterzote to create the orange carton for my breakfast table cloth scene and then print the label using Lino print as well as lino printing one of the plates.
My Final Designs:
For my Artefact I created 2 different designs as the idea was to create a 2 table cloths to show a dinner setting and a breakfast one. The dinner one was going to be created using wadding to make the plates and food stick out as well as hand embroidery and machine embroidery in different colours to make the foods stick out. Whereas the breakfast one was going to be created in a similar way with wadding for plates and cutlery but everything else would be made from felt and lino. Overall, I went with the breakfast design as it felt more fun and more of a challenge for me.
UPDATED DRAWING OF ARTEFACT:
Inspiration from Pinterest :
After deciding against my initial idea of a dinner table, I continued to use inspiration from my Pinterest board but just changed it to be more related to the breakfast theme. I still love the idea and if I had more time I would create another table cloth or more felted foods that could be swapped for different meals such as the dinner idea or other things.
click here to view pin board:
Here I started looking more into felt foods:
STARTING THE FELT FOODS:
I started out creating the eggs for this piece. In the end I made 11 eggs and then started creating the pancakes and toppings. I'm really happy with how this turned out and my favourite is definitely the pancakes as they feel the most realistic. One problem I came across was that the sausages were too big for the plates so after making 12 of them I had to cut them down and re-felt them to shape which was quite difficult. In the end, I wasn't happy with how they were turning out so I focused on making 3 detailed ones and changed my design from the original sketch to one with different kinds of breakfast meals.
MAKING THE ORANGE JUICE CARTON:
For the main part of my skills passport, I created an orange juice carton out of Plasterzote. Firstly, I spoke to technicians about the best way to create pattern pieces for it and then measured my lino and based the box off of that. I had to change the size of the box several times and struggled with getting the correct height. After figuring out the size, I then drew and cut them on pattern paper before transferring it to left over scrap sheets I had. All the plasterzote sourced for this project is recycled and taken from other students on the course. I then glued it together and measured the final box to find out how much fabric I needed to buy to cover it. Next I designed and drew the image I was going to transfer onto Lino using procreate. After drawing it I flipped the image then drew the black to show which parts I could need to cut out. I then tested out what it would look like on procreate adding colours and once I was happy I printed it out and drew it into the Lino.
I then glued and folded white fabric over the top and added my lino cuts to it. I'm really pleased with how my piece came out and love the details in the lino cuts.
Lastly, I cut out a lid from an old juice carton and stuck it to the top of my juice carton and cut a hole so the lid could open similarly to a real one. If I could do it again, I would make the box smaller as I feel it doesn't look like a realistic orange juice carton shape. I would also print the fabric before putting it on the box as I found it hard to press hard on the box without breaking it and feel like it didn't print as clearly as my sample piece.
Another way I showed my skills passport skills was by creating lino cut breakfast menus. I created the Breakfast sign out of lino and printed it onto paper, i then hand drew and wrote the rest. Overall, I like the images I drew however I feel like the Breakfast sign doesn't match the piece and looks a bit bulky.
MAKING THE TABLE CLOTH:
When I originally designed the piece, my vision was to have the table cloth and plates white with wadding to make them stick out. However, I explored different fabric shops and haberdasheries and decided brown Hessian was the best for my piece as it would make the white of the plates stand out more and then I could add wadding behind it and they would still look 3D.
To create the plates, I traced plates I had at home and make a cardboard pattern for it. I then made a slightly smaller circle so I could make it look more realistic.
Next, I placed wadding behind each plate and folded the wadding 4 times to make it extra thick. I then pinned each plate and sewed them individually onto the Hessian.
(24cm from hemmed side, 28cm between each plate and 10cm up from the bottom)
To create the cutlery, I made a knife and fork stencil using images from google to get the correct shape of the cutlery. I then got an old silver skirt I had from home and traced the knives and forks on top next to one another so I didn't waste any fabric. I then added 4 layers of wadding behind it and sewed each one. After they were all sewn, I trimmed off the excess fabric and attached it to the blanket. I love how the cutlery turned out and think the silver fabric was really effective for the piece.
Finishing the piece:
These are my final images of my piece and I'm so happy with how it turned out and how realistic the piece looks. My skills passport clearly demonstrates my understanding of lino print and using/ constructing an object out of Plasterzote.
I love the detailing of the little lino plate bowl with eggs in a frying pan and also how the orange juice carton opens and closes. If I was to re do this project, I would change the sizing of the orange juice carton to make it more realistic. I would also focus more to sticking to a budget. I originally had a budget of £45 as I knew sourcing fabrics would be a lot however, I ended up spending a lot more then that as I kept running out of felt. Overall, I think I spent just over £126 but most of the felting wool I haven't used so I will make sure to use in further projects/hobbies.
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