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As promised, my finished boards from my current Slow Fashion project.
These have been brought together through extensive research, which although interesting, is tres boring to look at pictures of, so er yeah.
This is for my own brand, Sleek Designs (kind of 'slow' and 'eco' without sounding too obvious and offputting). Its a knitwear company which uses natural yarns and fabrics and dyes, and aims to promote slow, sustainable prices.

Customer Profile:

 Mood Board:

Fabric Board:

You can see some of my naturally dyed fabrics and yarns on here.

In the fabric row on the top right there is one dyed with mushroom then iron water, second down on the left there is one dyed with walnut, then the third left has been dyed with walnut then iron water, and the third right has been dyed with carrot tops then iron water.
In the yarn row the bottom left has been soaked in Allum (a mordant) then dyed with carrot tops, and the bottom right has been soaked in Allum and dyed with red cabbage. 

dye me a river

Natural home dyeing! Yay.

With walnuts:

 Red cabbage:

 Carrot tops:

 Brewin' away.

Hahahahaaaa xxxxx.

so knitty

Yeah so, went to Fairfield Yarns on Friday to get the yarn for my garment!
It was a bit of a trek; we totally forgot that Friday is really trafficky, we ended up in Oldham at first instead of Heywood, then on the way home pretty much the whole motorway was a traffic jam. Oh well.

Sorry about the blur-factor I have to use my phone.

This is the yarn for my garment, which I'm gonna use the 2.5 gauge Dubied machine for, I'll put up samples and design development for it later. It's a silk-lambswool mix.

Also got this mohair for a pound!

This Shetland wool for a pound!

And some free samples of jute (top) and hemp (bottom).

The last three are for my design development and portfolio module, for the mood board for my slow/eco fashion brand. More to come on that later.

Currently at home dyeing things naturally for it too. AHAHA.