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Need felt which you can get pretty cheap from diaso, soecial needles a sponge and warm water! And soap! so you just take a small handful of felt and mix with another colour of felt, put some warm water put some soap and start poking!

You can also roll it into a ball and if you find that the two cannot join together perfectly, no worries you just have to keep hitting it or poking it!!

You can also do small animals with it!!

For my final sample, I decided to lazer cut the shape. As lazer cutting has a maximum amount of thickness it can cut, I cut alot more quantity of it and stick it together instead. As I was familiar with rhino, I did it on rhino first before laser cutting!

Another thing I laser cut was tags to hang on my products, first I had to rasterise what I wanted to be stated onto the acrylic board then I vector the outer shape!

Also, when laser cutting you can recycle the wood you cut out and make it be used as patterns or buttons!!!

Probably my favourite technique of all time – because it is completely recyclable (cost free) and doesn’t create a huge mess!

You basically begin by collecting plastic bag, after some practice and experiment, you more or less will know which kind of plastic bag will produce which kind od results. For me, I started using trash bags as they are single coloured and thin which makes it good to layer up into something strong, along with the “fruit protector” – the white foam thing that protects your fruit, I managed to fuse plastic into a very strong material!

I went on to further to applique – I first sewed a pouch with the strong plastic and also sewed clothes of various shapes onto the strong plastic using the various sewing patterns the sewing machine had to offer.

I decided that I really like the looked of the plastic bags being fused together so I decided to make to big plastic fused bags and sew a tote bag!

This is kinda like one big happy family, first you get a solid shaped item you want to create a vacuum out of, and then use this machine (takes 30 mins to heat up though) to vacuum the air out~

Once you get a plastic out line of the various shapes that you want, you can do resin with it! Add resin into the plastic and 3 drops of hardener so that you resin would be able to harden and yet not overheat resulting it in cracking and burning!!

For latex, you gotta grab the goo and mix it with any colour that you want and remember to add hardener OR it will never ever dry!! You can add it to almost any surface you want – just remember to spray the releasing agent before it! Unless you’re sure that you want to throw away the object after using it once!

ALSO REMBER TO WEAR GLOVES AT ALL TIME. RESIN AND LATEX CAN GET VERY MESSY SO ALSO REMEMBER TO SPREAD OUT NEWSPAPERS AND TRASHBAGS AND NOT TO DO IT IN THE ROOM.

For etching, ou have to get the fibre remover gel  (which is costly btw) and also velvet like cloth (which is also very costly) – silkscreen the gel onto the velvet with your desired design, let it dry and then iron it! wait till it goes completely brown, scrap of the dried bits and tadah you’re done!!!

Whereas for bleaching, you can do it at home with cheap materials – ie. unwanted tees and bleach. For experimental purposes, just fold your tee shirt in any way that you want to and spray on the bleach and let it dry in the sun and boommz!!

Well, you basically get some marbles, some rubber bands – would recommend the tiny ones that girls use to tie their hairs with, and tie them together to 100% polyester cloth (for long lasting results). You then wrap it in aluminium foil and boil in for the next 45 mins. Take it out to dry and walah! You can sew it with an opaque background if you want a more defined opaque look ~ You can also fold your polyester cloth and fold it into different shapes of with the aluminium!!!

TRANSFER PRINTING USING FABRIC CRAYONS

You basically draw whatever design you would like to have on paper and later iron it on onto the silk cloth with baking paper – easy! the only set back is that it lacks colour choices:(

TRANSFER PRINTING USING FABRIC PAINT

though the dye might look dark when painting on paper in the beginning, when ironed on the silk cloth, it actually ends up being very light in colour

TRANSFER USING MAGIC TOUCH PAPER

You have to use laser to print on either 6.1 or 3.1 – one is for dark coloured materials while they other is for light coloured materials such as a cotton tee shirt! Managed to print successfully print an image onto a cotton tee shirt @400 degree fahrenheit for 30 secs using a heat press!