Mini macrame. Jewellery?

Ever since I learnt macrame a few months ago, i just love doing it. However, i still can't help but think how tacky it looks when i see a macrame belt or dress in a shop. I like the idea of trying to turn macrame into something more special, a bit more sophisticated.
I'd been working with the theme of people, and how work can interact with people and be created to fill a void or need. I decided for the macrame i would create something quite tactile, as i generally make things on a large scale and i like to push myself within my work.
I used very organic colours to try and blend the pieces into the skin yet still stand out.
I try to make my work as sustainable as possible and therefore used PDF tape found in my dads shed and a ball of string i also found.

Tapestry round 2

Round 2 of making tapestries. This time i used much smaller frames and also used a much thicker warp to see what differences that would make. I feel it makes the full front of the piece look a lot more unique, it makes it a lot more textured and the 'rows' going downwards look a look fuller.

Some sketchbook pages

A bit of jazz

Some quick sketches whilst exploring colour theory using various medias and papers.

CAD (boo hoo)

Theres something about CAD that to me just seem so un-natural. Craft to me is hands. It's hands on, its hours of hard work and labour to make a beautiful object that can be touched, lifted, smelt, used. And CAD (computer aided design) just sort of makes my whole enthusiasm disapear. I don't know why, or what, but even the word CAD just makes me sigh. But I really wish it didn't.

Anyway, as part of a module at University, I had to use the dreaded CAD. I decided to use it to manipulate images of my loom samples and here are some of the outcomes...

Weaving + nature + macrame =

The twigs are added together by the technique of twinning, i have then woven back into them with wool and used the bottom twig as a base to macrame from. Purely experimental piece for combining weave with macrame. My two favourite areas within textiles!

Presenting my work

I think i'd have to say this is definitely the hardest part of a project! All the work is done, the samples are complete.. it's now just all down to finding a way to make them look bloody good.

For this project as i've been really playing with colour, i wanted my boards to be fun.
I wanted them to express passion and enthusiasm for what i do, yet still be playful. And also to really show the clash of colour and how infact they can work really well together.