Pattern Cutting...

This was our last pattern cutting lesson where we get help- I can't believe HOW quickly these past few weeks have gone and I'm surprised I'm actually starting to remember everything even though we have learned sooo much! Anyway so today we were focusing on patterns for collars. I thought this was going to be really simple, but was actually quite complex. Once I had made one collar though I found the rest simpler! I also stayed behind after and re-did my circle skirt as I knew it was wrong and made another sleeve pattern for extra marks. Overall was a pretty good day! and we have tomorrow off which means I can try and get ahead on the 'Melting Pot' project! :)

My abstract illustration...

Today we have been experimenting with making shapes 3D and blending shapes together!. As you can see in my illustration I firstly made all the shapes 3D and decided on a purple theme, I then blended the shapes together. I really like the outcome and am going to experiment with different colours and shapes now!

lost and found....

here is the shirt I drew out a few weeks ago, which I thought I had lost :( but then found! so all was good with that!. I enjoyed the process of drawing this, as you saw how you improved as you progressed.

Catch up day...

Here is some of the work I caught up on today, I was ill on the day we started it so decided to catch up today! Basically we had to trace round trainers and then add different colours, so was pretty easy and I quite enjoyed adding the different colours, my favorite is the white pair with the hearts and stars. I also found my skirt drawing, which I thought I had lost so woohoo! :) and I also found my other skirt drawing, which I need to edit before I upload to my blog.

flat drawings...

Today we had to practise doing our flat drawings for our melting pot project, I am beginning to enjoy this project more and more as I progress through. I also feel my flat drawings are slowly beginning to improve! We have three weeks today till the project has to be handed in finished...sooo starting to panick alot but if I do abit each day then I wont have to worry!

Tomorrow we have a catch up day in Jamie's lesson which is good, as I have a fair bit I need to catch up on!

Catch-up day round two...

I managed to finish everything (pattern cutting/construction related) today which is good as I felt I was lagging behind on Thursday!. So finished my skirt, samples, zip for my shorts and my pattern for my gathered sleeve. I also finished at 12:30 so this was a bonus as I thought I would be in all day! :)

Contruction..

Today has been one of 'them' days, everything that could have gone wrong went wrong! The day started off OK, I had stayed behind on Monday to finish my zip on my skirt, but I had sewn this wrong, which meant Un-picking and doing again! and again when we started my shorts, nothing seemed to go right. But overall I pretty much finished everything and we have a catch up day tomorrow so I can finish everything then. I also think where I keep doing things wrong this time, then next time I will be more conscious of this and hopefully wont get as much wrong. As they say Practise makes perfect! (which is so true)

Peclers Paris Lecture

Instead of having our usual Wednesday afternoon Illustration class we had a speaker come in from 'Peclers' to talk about the up and coming seasons of which they forcast the next trends for. I found the talk really interesting and am looking forward to seeing if these are the next trends. I am also looking forward to starting projects based around fashion forcasting.

Dr Noki...

Today we had to create a slide-show on one of our favourite designers, I chose Dr Noki. The reason of doing this is so we could get some practise of using Powerpoint before we have to do our presentation to the class. I already knew how to use Powerpoint (think I learnt how to use it in like year 5?) so I found this task quite easy.
We have a catch up day next week which is good as I missed last weeks work and saved my work from the week before in the wrong file, duhh!.

neww yorkkk <3

We also found out more information about our New York trip next year! ahhh :D is quite expensive (err £600?) BUT I WILL find a way to pay for this trip! I HAVE to go!

Flat drawing and Melted Pot project...

Today we started practising flat drawings, because the end outcome of our current project is a flat drawing of a model wearing our outfit that we have designed. I actually quite enjoyed this, we began by looking at a group of manikins and drawing them, trying to get the proportions right, then traced over them but with legs and arms this time and the next time with clothes drawn on. Eventually ending out to be more of a fashion flat drawing.

We also carried on with our 'Melted Pot' project and I am now beginning to think I definitely want to chose the theme of 'African Tribes', particularly leaning more towards the 'Zulu tribes' as I love how they use so much colourful beading in their clothing, and think it would work really well in a dress, with accessories of beaded necklaces, beaded earrings and beaded rings.

Overall has been a pretty good day and I'm enjoying this sketchbook project so far :)

Thursday 12th and Friday 13th = lots of pattern cutting and constructing...

OK so these past two days have been pretty hectic to say the least, with lots more knowledge to cram into my already overflowing brain!!!!

Thursday 12Th - Pattern Cutting:
So yesterday we started to learn about sleeves with gathering and button holes on shirts. At the beginning making the sleeve seemed like a long process, with lots of tracing, re-tracing oh and guess what more tracing?? finally though we all had a pattern for a gathered sleeve and I plan on using this at some point soon; seeing as it took me so long to do!!!!
Overall pattern cutting seems to be getting better, the information is actually sinking in now and I feel more like I know what I'm doing...even though I still do make millions of mistakes! :)

Friday 13Th (uh oh bad luck day?) - Construction
today we began making our A-line skirts, once we had cut out our patterns onto material (which took us all morning for some reason? ha ha too much talking maybe!!!!) we then looked at different inter facings and tested them. Near the end of the day we began sewing the back of the skirt together and adding the zip (which may I add I was DREADING!). I found this process the most difficult of the day, but what I learnt will definately be good for future reference!. At 4:30 I still hadn't finished my zip, so I will stay after on Monday to make sure I catch up ready for next Thursday!

Illustration..

Today we had to finish our fashion logo and fashion image, I decided to name mine 'Miss Mac', and used the colour purple as a theme. I really enjoyed this mini task and I am pleased with the outcomes. Next time I would make my image much sharper and clearer....

I'll upload the logo when I get chance :)

Melting Pot project...

We got our new sketch book project today and I'm really looking forward to getting started and getting delved into researching the different cultures, I'm kind of half and half on which culture I want to pick, but I guess this may change when I start looking into others. The main two I'm torn between is African tribal or Harajuku Japanese. I also like the fact we get to work more on our drawing illustration skills now and the whole project is a sketch book project :)

also...

I forgot to mention that I'm going to be working at LONDON FASHION WEEK next year?!?!! ahhhhh excitment!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Catch-up day...

Today pretty much was to catch up, so all I needed to do was attach the second sleeve to the bodice, and re-do some of the sample seams which we did in the first few weeks... the first sleeve I mucked up on at first, by accidently sewing to of the same sleeve, but this was sorted quite easily with abit of un-picking and re-sewing. I then went on to re-doing the sample seams and was really worried about trying to sew on chiffon as I DID not get on well with it last time, but I guess what they say is true: practise makes perfect and I actually managed to sew it well!!! even though I was only planning on staying in uni till 12:30 (hm somehow thought I would finish eveyrthing really quickly) and ended up staying till 4:30 I'm glad I got everything finished! :) anyways enough of this for now, weekend commences now!

Construction...

After putting our bodice together, today we started to put our sleeves in and finish off everything. With the first sleeve I found all the proccesses quite difficult, and couldn't seem to put the thing together without getting bits of material caught under the thread meaning I had to unpick and try to sew flatly, eventually I managed to sort this out though and was quite pleased. In the afternoon we had to sew one a few more samples, one of them being a box seam. The day went pretty well and tomorrow is a catch-up day so I can FINALLY get all my seams re-done (and neatly this time!!!)

this is the logo I started in illustration, we had to get an image of the internet and trace round it and add colour and text. This will be used for my own 'fashion label'. I quite enjoyed the task, and am looking forward to next lesson, to finishing this.

I'm going to london to buy a heat magazineee!

Today we headed out into the big city of London to hunt for some fabric samples! at first when we arrived and started looking in fabric shops I wasn't at all impressed, the fabric wasn't very nice and seemed abit tacky in some of the shops. But then we moved on to berwick street and the material shops were AMAZINGG. The materials were just wow, for instance one piece of material that I found was £99 PER meter!. So the day was pretty good and I got lots of pretty samples ready for next weeks project!

sharp darts

Thursday...

okkk so today we had a whole day of pattern cutting... darts were to be the main focus of today, which I was quite pleased about as I don't really find darts very difficult. This was until I found out HOW many darts you can actually have!, to list a few which we had to do: neck dart, shoulder dart, armhole dart and french dart (this isn't even all of the darts we have to do!)

But overall once each step was explained and I had tried them out mostly 9 times out of 10 the darts worked. We also learned how to pivot the darts out, which I never even knew you could do; its an alternative to cutting and folding the dart out.

Friday...

Today we started drawing out our skirt patterns (of which we will use in a few weeks in construction) we made an A-line skirt pattern and a circle skirt pattern. with the first skirt we put our new found pivoting skills into use and pivoted all the darts out of the front and the back of the skirt and then finally with the circle skirt we used our pattern master to create it.