The Cyborg Scarf is to look like a really elegant scarf from first glance, but when you look closer, you see ‘holes’ that peer into the inner machinery.

The scarf is knitted and crocheted. I used electrical wire and merino wool.

The inside wires are hidden by a piece of felt that I made. The scarf is powered through two 3v batteries and the light sequence is programmed on a Lilypad Arduino. It cycles through several blinking and fading lights, which I wanted to seem erradic, like a failing piece of machinery.

Materials and Processes: Wool, Wire, Knitting, Crocheting

This project was designed around the theme of the legend of Atlantis. The object of the project was to create 6 different samples that could be made into larger garmets.
I attempted to achieve a look where everything was rotting and growing see life on it.
This project was supposed to be mainly about embroidery, so there is a bit of embroidery on my samples. I used glow-in-the-dark embroidery thread and I also machine stitched some glow-in-the-dark sewing thread onto pieces. Some of the pieces also have glow-in-the-dark pigment added to them. Again, I wanted an underwater feeling. I was thinking of bioluminescent algae and sea creatures. The pieces take a completely different look once they’re placed in the dark.

Photography by Angel Rivera

Materials and Processes: Silk, Wool, Embroidery, Needlefelting, Dyes

This bag was part of a project to design and create 3 identical bags. This is one of the three. On the inside of the bag, there is a screen printed lining as well as a change purse with a screen printed heart on it.

The bag closes with a draw sting, which has flameworked glass buttons on the end.

Materials and Processes: Wool, Boning, Pigment, Borosilicate Glass, Machine Embroidery, Screenprinting

Last year, I was chosen to participate in a project called Digital Threads. In October 2007, I attended a workshop at the Interaccess Media Centre in Toronto about electronics and textiles. I was given a group of grade 10 high school students to work with, and I helped them to create a small electronic textile piece. The students were given an assignment to create Superheros. My project was to work from their images to create a textile-based artifact.

Materials and Processes: Silk chiffon, Dyes, Cotton, LEDs, Stitching

The idea for this shirt came from a sample of another collection I created (Stripes and Dots, Design Section). The colors are completely changed.

This shirt is made of silk chiffon and was dyed with hand painting and then needlefelted and serged. I also created the glass beads for the ends of the shirt.

Materials and Processes: Silk, Wool, Hand-painted Dyes, Dischange, Needlefelting. Machine Embroidery

Lights out.

Materials and Processes: Polyester Fabric, Thread

These boots act like light up shoes. When you press down on them with your feet, the LEDs inside the swirl shapes light up.

Materials and Processes: Thread, Felt, LEDs, Old Shoes

An overall view of the fabric. Based on a motherboard for a Commodore 64.

Materials and Processes: Discharge, Dyes, Stitch on Linen/Cotton