Heather has been encouraging all of us to take our fabric studies and attempt to model them exactly as we’ve made them, which is presenting a unique challenge: it’s pretty easy to twist a piece of fabric, but it’s a lot harder to model a strip of twisted fabric. I thought I might start by first building the flat plane of the fabric, then try to move it in 3d space, but that’s just not working, as the dimensions of that planar surface chance when I move its control points around in space. Heather has told us that there too much immediacy in modeling strips – and I’m not entirely sure what that means. Anyway, here’s a sketched attempt at understanding the way that we’ve folded the fabric into a collar (I left the grid lines in as a modeling aid for later):

…and here’s what the fabric model looks like: