Sleeping Beauty

This was my final creation for the year. I love the how it turned out and I will definitely work this way for many projects to come. All the fabrics were dyed using only natural dyes. I experimented with rusted objects as my printing source and I loved it. A lot of machine embroidery. This book focused mostly on transparency and layering. I like that it has a lot of texture as well.  

The imagery for this book was inspired by the song 'PET' by Perfect Circle.

Bagteria Cells

Took me a while, I should have posted this before since its an old project but here it is! This is for a project I did for my dye and print class. We had to make a series of three bags.

"Based on microscopic biological imagery, Katherine’s bags can be worn anywhere on the body, self-attached by magnets.  They function both as a discrete pocket and as a jewelry-like adornment, suggesting organic growth and form." 

This is how my teacher described it and I thought it was perfect!

These three beautiful ladies are modeling my three designs.

I thought it would be cute to see them on guys as well and I found three guys wearing plaid shirts. Dont they look amazing!

They have an industrial red felt base, handmade felt on top with applique pieces and lots of both machine and hand embroidery. They have a small pocket at the back and attach to anywhere with magnets. I was inspired by microscopic picture of different bacteria. Thus the name of the series 'Bagteria Cells' 

Just some close ups of the texture and patterns in my bags/pockets.

hope you enjoyed them!

More embroidery...

These are some samples that I made for my embroidery project. Both machine embroidered and inspired by microscopic body images.

Soulmate dry your eye, because soulmates never dye.

This was an embroidery project for my materials exploration class. It was supposed to reflect something very personal that happened in our lives. I chose to make my eye because a lot of my personal experiences are moments that visually I never forget. This was machine embroidered on linen and cotton. The eyeball was attached separately to create a more 3d effect. The cotton was hand painted for both the green and the orange colors. I love embroidery, it has a very sketchy feeling, I feel like Im drawing on fabric with thread.