Browsing Archive: January, 2010
Posted by Zoe Fletcher on Sunday, January 17, 2010,
I had a great time yesterday exploring Bethnal Green's Museum of Childhood...my next project at uni involves what connects a person to their clothing, and entices them to keep it in their wardrobe and treasure it instead of throwing it away!! So I thought this would be a good start at looking to what children connect with and how this affects their habits in later life!!
I was most intrigued with a Playsack...it was from the 60's and is basically a giant paper bag with a hole cut out for the h... Continue reading ...
Posted by Zoe Fletcher on Friday, January 15, 2010,
I had my Unit 1 assessment tutorial this morning (which went really well!) and then decided that an 'exhibition day' would get me out of the house and hopefully inspire me (and it turns out scare me!) for the next set of projects!! I met with Julia and we went to explore the delights of the RCA work in progress exhibition featuring first and second years work...it was great to see what other institutions are doing and there were so many great pieces of work with some amazing concepts behind t...
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Posted by Zoe Fletcher on Thursday, January 14, 2010,
New Years Resolution - be better at updating my blog again!!
This Christmas and New Years has been the best yet!...snow, family, friends, food, parties, knitting, presents (including tickets to see The Lion King - which was amazing!!) I want to kickstart my knitting again, with a few more personal projects to update my own wardrobe as well as increase my skills!
For Christmas I also got a spinning wheel...I am so excited to use it...although its back home up in Bolton so i'm going to have to be... Continue reading ...
Currently undertaking a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University within the MIRIAD post-graduate department, I am beginning a practice based academic journey into British wool fibres and new technologies within knitwear design.
Graduating with Distinction from a Masters in Fashion and the Environment at London College of Fashion, specialising in hand-knitting and the British Wool Industry,
I have worked on a number of knitwear collections (personal and external companies), whilst freelancing and researching for a number of exciting projects.
My work revolves around the idea of sustainable fashion from a knitted perspective and the different ways to achieve this incorporating the ideas of slow fashion into mainstream society.
I love knitting.
And wool.
And double sided sticky tape.
