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=​Textiles in our daily lives= There are many textiles in our daily lives. At home and at school, there are textiles everywhere. From bedding to curtains, textiles is part of our lives.

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=Textile Materials=

Fabrics has many different chracteristic and properties.There are knitted fabrics and nonwoven fabrics. Fabrics can use in different ways.

=Textiles Tools= Different tools are used for different techniques. These are the tools that we use for textiles: **Find the tool most suited to each of the following tasks:** Marking a stitching line on an unusually shaped cushion.  **Tools:** Dressmaker's chalk, marking pens and pencils Cutting an embroidery thread. **Tools:** Dressmaker's shears/scissors Hand-sewing a button to a shirt. **Tools:** Needle
 * Dressmaker's chalk, marking pens and pencils
 * Dressmaker's model
 * Sewing machine
 * Overlocker
 * Pins
 * Dressmaker's shears/scissors
 * Thimble
 * Unpicker
 * Hand Needle
 * Iron
 * Safety**: Do not put chalk, pens and pencil in your mouth as it is poisonous to your body.
 * Safety:** Be careful not to cut yourslef with the scissors as it is very sharp.
 * Safety:** Careful not to prick or stab yourself with the needle, you may use thimbles to prtect your fingers. Also don't put needles in your mouth.

Unpicking stitches sewn in the incorrect position <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Tools:** Unpicker <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Holding 2 pieces of fabric together while you are sewing <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tools: ** Pins
 * Safety:** Be careful not to cut yourself with the unpicker because it's very sharp. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * Safety:** Careful not to hurt yourself with the pins. Do not put pins in your mouth.

=Textiles Technique= <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There are different varieties of techniques to make our pilows attractive and creative. In our project we have to have two or more techniques for our pillows. These techniques include:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tie Dye
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Applique
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Fabric Crayons
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Buttons
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hand embroidery
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Iron-on Transfer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Fancy Machine stitching.

__**These are the samples we did in class:**__

=Tie Dye= <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> //__Marble and Concentric Circles __-// For this experiment, it works pretty well. What I like about this experiment is that we can see the different sde of pinks. There are light and dark pinks. It could've been better if the elastic band is tighter..<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">For the concentric circle, we can actually see the circle in the middle and lines coming out of it. I like the different colours of pink. It could've work better if the elastic band is tighter. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 108%;"> I like this technique and want to use tie dye for my pillow. i like it because it looks colourful for backgrounds and you can use different patterns to use it.

=Applique= <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I did a good job for this experiment. The V glows against the black background. Sewing the straight line was not that hard and there are couples of not straight lines and you can see black thread on the V. I like this technique because you can have different shapes and colours. This technique is not that hard, you just glue it and then sew it. This technique allow us to be as creative with our pillow with the different shapes. I'm using this technique for decoration on my pillow.

=Sewing Straight Lines, Zig-Zag and Wavy Lines= <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The first couples of straight lines I did was not straight at all but as I practised I got better and better. The Zig-Zag was very messy and doesn't look straight at all. The Wavy lines are pretty well. I don't really like this technique because I'm new to the sewing machine and my sewing skills is not that good. =Sewing The Edge of A Fabric To Make A Pillow= <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">//__Outside-__// I sewed the straight line not near the edge so when you turn it over it doesn't become a square. I need to sew near the edge of the fabric to make it squared,

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 108.9%;">//__Inside-__// It doesnt turn out to be a square shape, however it turns out that the edge is not pointy.

=Fabric Crayons= <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I like this technique because you can put hard drawings in. This technique is simple and you don't need specific tools. All you have to do is draw with the fabric crayons and iron it with the brown paper. After that it stays and can be washable. We can draw whatever we like and it's very colourful. I'm using this technique for my pillow for decorating.

=**Indpendent Research**= <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I like these pictures of pillows/cushions that I found in the internet:



<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I like these pillow designs because most of them are really colourful and creartive. They have bright colours and mostly warm colours. Their designs are very simple and unique. The first one is really creative. It is called iDream Pillows. It was designed by Studio Psycho from Ukraine. This design is very smart and really make sense with the title iDream. It is very creative but it's very simple as well. They're mostly white except the thinking bubble that has bright colours. The second pillow is icons from Mac OS X from Throwboy. It's very cute and attractive to look at. They use different symbols to represent different things and it is very good for decoration around any room. The third picture has different designs pillows. Their colour is very bright and summer colours. They are mostly basic shapes like circles, squares and rectangles. The bright colours are very eye-catching and very pretty. The last one uses applique to make the shadows of the the bird and the branches. The background colour really contrast with the black and red silloute and also the border. It is very delicate and neat. Although it is mainly black, red and white, the color really suits each other and make a prefect combination.

The pillow where I'll put is in my own bedroom. My bedroom wall is white and my blanket is yellow. The bedsheet is mostly soft and calm colour. There are other pillows sitting there in my bed. I used coloruful colours for my pillow to fill the soft and calm colours in my bedroom. White should suit other colours, that's why I use different colours for my design. My room has bright colours around. I'm going to put my pillow on my bed where it suited the yellow blanket and the bedsheet.
 * Analysis of the environment - interior**