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This week was the final week for working on the branding brief. I have had to work quickly and decisively to bring my ideas together into a collection of final samples. By developing and refining my body of sampling I have strived to create a range of different outcomes that have a good balance of colour and most importantly respond to the Sibling brand.

My resolved fair isle design: I used the technical back of the knit because it has an unusual sketchy quality and is different to a traditional fair isle. I think it would work well alongside other patterns or techniques.

This is one of my most successful samples, I think. It has some good colour and texture in it and I like the almost graphic quality that the black adds. It would make a really interesting scarf or even the sleeves of a jumper.

I like the texture created by weaving in yarns here and I think the colours work well. I put the ladders in  as they are quite Sibling, I could have made them more extreme though for a bigger impact. 

For this sample I used very large needles with multiple yarns and then embellished the piece with some latex shapes that I had left from an old project. I enjoyed the hand knitting and would have liked to explore the latex idea more, had I had time.

Overall I feel my samples reflect the identity of the brand and my theme, I think I could have just made everything bolder and bigger to really express the Sibling look and ethos. There were also ideas that I wasn't able to fully explore due to the time restraint of the project. This was a new way of working for me and a much quicker pace than I am used to, from what I have learnt during this project I have more confidence to tackle something similar in the future.