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Down on the Farm - A North Devon short film commission for emerging or experienced filmmakers

Down on the Farm – A North Devon short film commission for emerging or experienced filmmakers

This is news about a short film commission in North Devon, it’s been politely sitting in the corner of our inbox for a bit, so we could have been more urgent in getting it out. But if you’re a filmmaking, potential volunteers, heritage organisations or part of the local community take a look and get involved in this new commission.

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Here’s the finished product. I hand sewed the rest of the letters, sewed the back and front together and then stuffed it with wadding. 

Overall im happy with this piece however there are some bits that aren’t great. The lid and back section of the label aren’t the same shade of yellow, and the label bit is made of a furry piece of fabric that malts a lot. The green bit of the label isn’t the right shade of green. Also the proportions of the cushion are wrong, this is something i should have looked at before i made it.

I think i will make another cushion, addressing these issues. 

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Here’s some progress photos of my marmite pillow. I made pattern pieces of all my sections and made sure they where symmetrical. I cut out two body pieces and two lid pieces, for the front and back. I used a sewing machine to sew ridges onto my front lid piece. To do this i used a pin tuck foot. Unfortunately i forgot that the pin tuck technique would make my lid piece significantly shorter. To get around this i gathered the top of my two body pieces to make them fit the lid pieces. 

I then started on the label pieces ( which i’m only putting on the front ). I cut out all my sections and then stuck them all together using bondaweb .I used a zig zag stitch in yellow thread for the background oval label. Then i went around all  inner pieces in a black zig-zag stitch. This was to make them stand out but also to fix them to the pillow with an applique technique. 

I’m planning on hand sewing the rest of the writing. I decided not to do a free motion pattern on the body piece. This is because it would have taken a long time and also would have stiffened the fabric and i wanted this section to me soft. 

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This is the design for my final piece. I’ve decided to do a Marmite jar shaped pillow. I’ve bought my materials which I've tried to get to the right colours and a range of interesting textures. 

I think i’ll change a bit of the writing because i’m worried about copyright issues. Instead of the ‘100% vegetarian’ bit ill put ‘Love it, hate it, just don’t forget it’, which is a line from the marmite adverts. 

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I made this marmite jar using free motion embroidery. I tried to get the colours as accurate as possible but they’re not quite right. I used a zig-zag stitch to get the ridges on the lid like on a real Marmite jar. 

I really like the swirl pattern i used on the body of the jar, i’d like to use this technique again. Overall, i’m pretty pleased with this sample. If i was to do it again i’d try it on a darker fabric as i think the stark white of this sample makes the colours go a bit weird. 

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I tried using dis-solvable fabric to create a resist image of Hereford cathedral in the heat press. 

The free motion image looked great but when i washed away the fabric it was unrecognizable. I went ahead anyway and put it in the heat press but the image wasn’t obvious at all. I’m not sure why this happened but i’ve decided to scrap this process for the time being. 

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I was thinking about what English heritage is, and what kind of things a very British. I find British culture quite funny, things like socks & sandals, heinz beans, fish & chips. And i thought that using an old technique like embroidery, to create an image of something quite modern, like Marmite, would be funny. So this is what i came up with. 

I think it turned out quite well, it’s very obvious what it is and the colours are almost perfect. However, because i did it quite small, it was hard to get in all the details. I did it on one of my lino prints but this didn't work very well because the colours didn't match and the marmite jar wasn’t positioned quite right. If i was to do it again i’d put the jar in the middle of the print and make the jar larger. 

I’d like to try free motion embroidering the jar and having areas of space inside it so you could see a print of the cathedral. Or i could use applique to create the jar and print onto sections of the fabric. 

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I did this drawing of Hereford Cathedral and then made a print from the drawing in lino. I printed it onto calico using red printing ink. I would have preferred to use black ink.

I like the faded lines of the print, it gives an aged look. I’d like to try doing this larger scale or maybe trying a different type of print, like screen print or mono print. 

I was thinking about using the heat press as well. I could create a picture of the cathedral in stitch, on dis solvable fabric so that i’m left with just the lines of the picture. I could then use this as a resist in the heat press. The stitched drawing would act as a window through which i’d see a second print of the cathedral.