Just another quick update on how my dress is coming along so far I have pretty much completed the outer dress I just have my lining to complete and sew in and the shoulder piece and Im ready for fitt...
In a previous post I posted the making of my Marilyn Monroe style dress, I finally got some images back from the photographer and Im really with the out come. I think that this is my favourite p...
Another quick update on how my final dress is going with some imagesHere I used pink thread when I should have used white, I unpicked this and resewed the line.these flower shapes are to be cut out o...
Over the past few week I have been working on patterning and toiling for my final dress, I thought I would post some pictures of my progress.here is my pretty much finished toile I just need to figur...
For My last brief of the year one of my tasks is to create an illustration based on my final design, as soon as I had finished my design and researching other illustrators I had a(kind of) clear idea...
A few weeks ago one of the first year photography students asked me to make a dress for one of his projects, with help from my tutors. The original image he worked from was by Nick Knight .I had to r...
Here is an update on my sketchbook. I started by looking at two contrasting decades. I started by looking into roman clothing and the pleats an drapes of the fabric.I also then looked into the d...
To pick my final design that I am going to make for this brief I had to pick my favourite design from my first batch and then work on this design using my research to help improve and sophisticate my...
For my independent project, in the half term I made a pair of bubble shorts. After I made these I decided to make them again in another fabric, the second time round it only took me h...
For his brief I have had to look at more illustrators so that I can test more techniques to create my own illustrating style. Here are some of my favourite illustrators from the new ones I have ...
For college to create our final dresses I have to create a colour page using relevant images to our theme and to choose a number of colours that I want to use for my final piece. So this is the...
Kanzashi Flowers are the hair ornaments that used in traditional Japanese hairstyles, Ive already said in a previous post how I got to Geishas Hair pieces in mu sketch book thread here. I found ...
Lately in my work I have been looking at what was considered feminine in different decades, one style that I looked at was Georgian clothes. In this decade I concentrated mostly on the embe...
The other weekend me and my friend Jess( Check out her blog ) went to a craft fair at the NEC in Birmingham, this post is a little late but this was the first big craft fair Ive been to so I th...
For pattern cutting we have a choice of doing an independent project to help get a distinction, so for my independent project I decided to make some bubble shorts. I first saw K.L wearing these in he...
For my latest project in pattern cutting, I learnt how to make a panelled dress and heres how I patterened and manufactured the dress. To start with I traced around a dress block, I then drew in...
This is a post on my military skirt patterns, For some reason I imagined that I already posted this!(Unfortunately the image above isnt very good) To start my patterns I began first draft b...
For my theme for my final dress I have chosen Gender from Equality and Diversity.To begin with I have taken the most recognised symbol for gender and I turned it into a stencil. I also experimented w...
In my latest brief I have had to research into Equality and diversity, for my final piece I have decided to look into gender. My research thread has taken me from gender to pearls and some how t...
The other day I decided to take a break from my work and paint my nails whilst there all at the same length. I have painted strawberry nails before but they look much cuter in a baby pink ...
This week I just finished manufacturing a shirt apart from the buttons and button holes, her I am going to share with you how I manufactured my shirt. First I placed and pinned my pattern p...
Every year for my mums birthday we buy her a box of ferrero rocher, this year I dediced to take the empty box and re-use it as a jewellery box as I have far to many earrings!I dedcided to stick...
Last week I received two blog awards from BritishBirdie!! (http://britishbirdie.blogspot .com/) These are my first ever blog awards!!Thank you very much for these, it feels like Ive actually...
I thought I would do a valentines themed post today as its valentines day, Secret life of a bio nerd has just posted a tutorial on how to make nylon flowers. There a great altern...
Every Thursday I go to the geek club at lunch, where Im learning how to start up and run my own business/label. Me and my friend have decided to work together and start our business project small by ...
Studded shorts have become very popular and ever since I first saw them I knew I wanted a pair but I definitely wasnt willing to buy a pair as they can be very expensive. When I started college I met...
Sorry its been a while without any posts other than college, Ive been really busy lately tyring to get all of my work done for our deadline but now that thats over I can relax for a couple of days so...
For my latest project in college I am making a shirt, the shirt includes a yoke, cuffs, a collar and bishop sleeves. Heres how I drafted the patterns:First I began by drawing around shirt blocks...
For the final task in my latest brief in college I had to recreate the painting below to look as close as possible.The painting below is called Val Destroy No.1 by Jo Brocklehurst and would have orig...
For our second project in college we created a pattern and manufactured maxi skirts. To start this I used my skirt block and adapted it to create extra flare, invisible zip on one side and a waist ba...
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