Mon 8^th – Fri 12^th Jan, 2018

                In the past week I have found that for my self-initiated project I really needed some direction. For my live brief I have gone in the direction of quite regal patterns and designs, so Lesley suggested that I let my live brief influence my self-initiated brief for a new direction to go in to draw with. This has really helped me start to think about the idea of regal and what it actually is. Although I also still feel like what I’m drawing isn’t massively working with my project yet. I feel as though it doesn’t quite fit into place. Perhaps I need to look down a different area of what can be considered regal, which I may find more inspiring.

                I may be struggling with the direction since I am focusing more on what I intend to weave and thinking about my warp. I am struggling with how to translate my drawings into peg plans and deciding how, technically, this will actually work. Maybe this is due to me doing double cloth, something which I have never done before, so I can’t really picture how it will all work. Hopefully once I get on the looms everything will become much clearer and I won’t be struggling as much with how it all links together.