monday 18th may 09

after a small amount of stress this is basically the week before the hand in. so i went in to college today and moulaged my garment. i now know what I'm making. i just have to work the pattern out from the moulage which i imagine will be rather difficult so that's my job in college tomorrow. Tuesday was fun, i have to take my moulage apart piece by piece. and lay it all out so that as pattern pieces it worked, and thanks to the scrunched edges of my design, its rather difficult. this is going to be so much fun to put back together, in a new fabric. OK now i have made he pattern its a case of putting it all back together but i need to produce the metamorphosis affect that i wanted on the garment, and this went horribly wrong when i tested it again on the machine, but never mind. so i had to go back to the fabric shop and re-buy the fabric i needed to do the metamorphosis in a different way which to be honest i think will look better now. so i spent all of wednesday night making the metamorphosis section of my dress even thought it would only take an hour, never mind.

monday 11th may 09 week 35

right i have made more design sheets, i'm quite happy with how things are going, so fabric shopping time here we come! i have chosen a blue and white slightly stretchy fabric, which is based on the colours of my research for the 'seaside' i have also chosen a series of cotton candy pink fabrics which are completely out of my comfort zone but apparently this will help me work in new ways. hm. so tonight ill experiment with my fabrics and double check they fit into my research. wich they should as its all the seaside stuff, simmilar to my research page here! i will also be able to take them to college to do some metamorphosis on them!

Tuesday, bad day, well good day depending on how you look at it, a voluntary crit has lead me to believe that i need to basically start again with some design ideas and shapes. so all the design sheets i have done basically needs scraping, but its good as there is no point handing in work that i know isn't up to scratch. right, Wednesday, start again. so my mission today was to make a few more designs, that fitted in with what i had been told yesterday. i have decided moulage is the way forward so i will be doing that. Thursday was good helping the 3rd years it proves what you can learn! i have decided i definitely need to do so much more practical work, maybe make a could of bits and pieces over summer just to remember what we have been doing!

monday 4th may 09 34

well for this tuesday our research was mean to be well on with way with design sheets, so i have research and i have some design sheets but as many as i would have liked to have so i will have to do more to them, we are also working from our sample sheets that we produced last week. doing the intensive work session thing worked well, i really enjoyed it again but i'm not entirely happy with what i produced. but im glad we did it because if we had been working on our research without a teask i wouldnt have got half as much done so it proves when we put our mind to it we can do alot. i forgot to take a picture of it, but this is it half way through. i did not like the bottom but i though the rest of it worked quite well, and working on the haf scale mannequn was alot easier and quicker. this one is half scale-

today wednesday we were doign a moulage. until today i had no idea what this was but once again i enjoyed it, its really quick and allows you to work on the stand and makes more sense to me than pattern cutting does. its a little difficult when tryign to realise that what you put on the outside actually will go on the inside but it makes more sense once you have taken it off the stand and seen it.

week 33 monday 27th

thank god for the hand in of the fashion art and culture. after doing a vote on facebook i picked the photo that was most relevant to the look of the piece, and which was basically the best. so its all handed in now and im very happy to have it out of the way as it has dragged on for soooooo long, and only for 10 credits. rubbish. this is one of my favourite images that i did not use, and its amazing what daisy will hold if you give her chocolate. yes its a dead bird. we have the metamorphosis thing to hand in tomorrow, and i have done my 15 pages of research but none else has so we can't celebrate being back yet.

so the research we did was necessary otherwise you couldnt really do the work that was required, so now im glad i did it. making the five samples based on the research we did was quite intense. but i enjoyed it. i did not finish it properly because i did not time it right but thats something i can work on tomorrow. so wednesday was just doing what we were doign on tuesday...so we all finished that off. tomorrow we meet our third year!

week 32 monday 20th easter hols

right...i have started the metamorphosis stuff all going well but its taking forever to cut and stick as i havent got the photoshop thing uploaded onto my computer yet. this is one of the pages i have started..taking the biological metamorphosis inspiration i am still not happy with fashion art and culture and although i have quite alot done i ahve not taken my final image...or started makign the final thing. but at least i have my design sheets

so its time to decidewhat i am goign to do. i have asked daisy to come up from dorking to be the model for my image, and i will have to borrow georgys camera as mine was brutally stolen! ah so much to do!

week 29, monday 30th march, easter hols

monday and im off to newcastle before i do any work on any projects im having a week off. newcastle tonight, for a big birthday party! tuesday is my mission to get back from newcastle. wednesday i went to london, and i nipped into the v&a exhibition to see the stephen jones exhibiton which would have been really good for my millinery elective as i learnt alot and got a different perspective, so after a quick look around harrods and dinner in zuma home time. thursday mums birthday!

week 28 monday 23rd march

Mon-well thanks to a hospital appt..Ian changed my ppd1 thing to an afternoon session instead of a morning one which was very good otherwise i would have missed out. for that session i had Angie and we did a mini presentation again which we weer scored on by the group, which was OK but not brilliant as i think to make a good presentation you need practice so having an hour to prepare does not make a good presentation especially when you don't know enough about what your talking about. my mission tonight is to get more done on my critical studies essay.
hm, Tuesday my interdisciplinary fabric manipulation workshop, and i broke the machine...excellent great start to the day. what kind of idiot put wax which is try into a hot machine that bonds stuff. and my bonding did not work very well either i really need to look into doing some things by myself to get some more interesting things done as none of mine worked especially well, and this is an example of one.
wed-mid term tutorial went well, i enjoy my Little chats with Ian, even though some of the stuff on the form that they ask us to fill out is completely unnecessary. in fact i suppose its only unnecessary if you don't have a problem, but i didn't so it was a good little chat about college and stuff. so then i had my photo induction thing which went reasonably well i now know what the different setting on the camera mean. the guy was really nice and help full too as I'm a little bit of a technophobe. I'm rubbish and i break things so I'm glad nothing broke.
Thur- we had a lesson but i needed to go the the fabric shop in dewsbury to buy the right tartans for my project otherwise it just wouldn't look right. so tat was successful and i bought some other fabrics for me to make something with over the Easter holidays. my essay is going well, and i have found some really good quotes, but as my writing is a little special, i will need someone with far better grammar to check it over for me. which is why i am going to harass bobby and daisy to read it for me now and go crazy with a red pen. so i can hand it in tomorrow and go home before the rush hour. i wouldn't be able to bring my essay up on Monday either as i will be in Newcastle. so I'm glad i will have it finished early.
Fri- right checking my essay went well, Charlotte and i set off from Leeds slightly later than we expected but we need to get things finished. so happy i have handed my essay in so i can have a really nice relaxing weekend so i can finish my fashion art and culture project in the holidays.
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