Whilst working at home, Ive had the time to develop my skills by creating accessories for my garments and how I would style them.
As there is quite a lot of key features on my garments, I didn’t want to create an accessory that distracted the audience from my outfits. However, I did want to push myself in creating something that linked into my designs and gave the outfit that extra detail.
I decided I wanted to make a set of earrings. However, trying to find an earring making kit or the tools I needed was impossible during the circumstances and online. This meant, I had to think of ways I could create the earrings from scratch.
Once looking around, I found items such as metal bolts, eyelets and spare fabric I had used for my outfits to start making the earrings. I also took apart an old set of earrings for the fish hook part for the top.
with attaching the bolts, I was going to use thread at first but that didn’t work out how I wanted so instead, I cut eyelets in half and attached them to the bolts to create the centre piece of the earring.
This process was repeated a few times until I had my desired earring. To make sure the earring linked in with my collection, I sewed a pattern onto the fabric that I have used frequently during my outfit making.
Even though these earrings were handmade, I think they add character to my mini collection and have showed my textile/creative skills using random objects around the house.
Whilst cutting up the eyelets, I was also potentially thinking of using them as ear cuffs to add small detail to one of my ears perhaps for the photoshoot as I am hoping to wear them myself. This could be another key feature for my shoot.
I was also inspired by the metal bolts, that I even added them onto my jacket as small details on the elastic hooks as shown below.
During the past few days, I have also been creating a prototype belt bag that I could potentially bring into my collection next year. The turn out of the belt wasn’t as successful as my other designs, but as it was a first, quick attempt to get an idea I think it looked good. This is definitely something I would like to look into further next year as one of my main key features for the collection.
Mollys journal 