NOCTIFLORA

Designing shoes and shit.

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3rd Year Project: FMP ~ 3 prototype shoes ~ May 2017

I decided to redo my first cake shoe for my last project and I ended up having a love/hate relationship over these as a lot went wrong. I would redesign the uppers totally different, the swiss roll upper ain’t too bad..  the macarons would be higher in height but i know people like smaller heel heights too. that’s just some of it the list of negatives.

I love the heels though. I redesigned the original swiss roll heel. The cake flatform weighs like a brick but it was the trickiest one to build haha. The macarons are pretty cute and realistic! 

Mixed feelings but i hope you like these after 3 years of the first one i did for a customising project. I finished what i started.. or is it the end of these cake shoes? hmm who knows.

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2nd Year Project: Pleasure and Pain

We went to the V&A Museum in London to see the Pleasure and Pain footwear display they had out to give us inspiration for our brief. I was inspired by the 2 getas out on display; to which i went on to look at kimonos and cherry blossoms.

I found this beautiful, black embossed leather that had a pearlescent and hand sewed all these flowers sequins to it. The leather comes down over the wooden platform. Hand painted the sole black with a red iridescent paint which matched up nicely to the flowers.

I was really proud of this design as it was pretty difficult to make; it was like a jigsaw puzzle but i managed to solve it along the way!

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Okay let’s try this blog again...

Hello all new and old followers; this may be a little long update!

I gained a lot of interest (more than expected) with the cake shoes. I wanted to continue growing this account but life was SO busy. A lot happened in the past 3 years.  Uni nearly killed me but I GRADUATED IN JULY~!! Currently looking for a job but there’s nothing in Scotland really for footwear design.

So for now I’m going to upload past work; some in a cluster of what i’ve like then post my favourites individually...  I have a few shoes i’ve done that i’m proud of. One being a finalist for an inspiring woman and is probably my favourite shoe i’ve designed!

My final project of 3 shoes inspired of the first cake shoe. I personally love and hate the collection and i’ll explain why when i post them up but i know alot of you might like them for the heels!! :)

On another note; I destroyed over a years worth of photographs by uploading them at 150 dpi, I deleted them all before checking what i had happened as i was going to get a new phone so i was heartbroken tbh when i realised what i had done..(alot of treasured memories gone) so might have to take new photos or just try and get them off my instagram.

I’m not really sure how to continue this blog afterwards though.. whether people are interested in illustrated designs or i might sculpt some ideas out. I want to keep people interested! We’ll see how it turns out anyways.

Thanks for all the lovely comments and support!

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For my first assignment in class, we were to buy a shoe and customise it to our inspiration. I decided to bade mine on bakery/sweets/desserts. Because in the past I use to do decoden, I decided to incorporate it into my shoe as I thought it went well with inspiration. The fruits are made from Polymer clay and painted with acrylics, glazed with sparkly nail polish as I left my glaze at home. The Swiss roll heel is made from Air drying clay and painted with acrylics. Both the filling and piped cream is white silicone.

I added more piping but don't have a nice enough photo so this is the near finished design! Pretty please how it turned out!

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Hey, I hope you don't mind me asking but hand embroidery help is in need. I'm new to hand embroidery and I'm doing my first project for my course, how many strands of floss do I need to use? Thanks again x

Hello not at all. I’m still somewhat new to hand embroidery as well but i’ll try my best to help.

Too me it depends what you are doing/time. I never usually use more than 3 strands even for filling in but some people like using the whole lot or just above 3.

My bird i’m currently working is 1 strand but knotted at the ends together so it technically makes 2 but im using sewing thread. Using floss will be a lot more thicker compared to thread. As nice its coming out its taking me a lot of time to finish it.

Pinterest/Youtube is great reliable source if your wanting to find out various hand sewing stitches/techniques/tutorials.

Hope I have helped in some way and also Good Luck (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

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So close to finishing my blue tit for graded unit which is for hand in for thursday on top of other sample work yet to be completed!

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8 hours later, 2 series of Sherlock with tears and i’m still hand embroidering.. Getting there but forget to get cream thread!

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Chaffinch machine embroidery on water-soluble for my graded unit assessment.  I have uet to wash this out and stitch it on to fabric.

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I've kind of neglected this blog. I'm hoping to kick start it again ｡(*^▽^*)ゞ

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Blue tit hand embroidery on silk organza that I am working on for my graded unit assessment.

I've sat this over the top of my drawing so there is actually no pen marks on the fabric itself in this photo.

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This was a WIP for my graded unit. These are pansies inspired from a pen drawing, machine embroidered onto dyed up shibori. 

(Fabric dye - Dylon China Blue, Blush Pink and Sunflower Yellow)