Archive for June, 2007
The Ball Dress – Part 2
I hate being creative sometimes. This is how my working process has gone so far…
The Under-dress
I cut a basic pattern for the under-dress. I did this using my basic bodice and skirt blocks and adapting them to my measurements as I went along. I removed the darts from the middle, which means [...]
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The Ball Dress – Part 1
As I have blogged very little about my actual design and make process this year I though I would blog the creation of a dress I am making for my boyfriend’s end of university ball. The ball is next Friday (29th) and I’m going to be heading home to work for my mum a [...]
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Stella McCartney anti-fur advert
Just watched this video via Catwalk Queen, its a brief advert for Peta, filming at a fur farm in America.
If these are the conditions of animals raised for fur in the USA, I dread to imagine the conditions they are bred in in ‘less developed’ countries.
I am completely anti-fur, and animal testing. I will [...]
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End of The Year…Results Are In…
My first year is over. Where on earth did that go?
I handed in my project last week. Spent all week trying not to worry about my mark. Then on Friday morning had a really interesting talk about what the second year is going to be like. I must admit I am scared and excited in [...]
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My hate list continues…
Eyelets. I hate them.
Or more specifically eyelet machines.
Tuesday, went to use the eyelet machine at college. Couldn’t remember how to use it. There was no technician to be found.
So I bought a kit of 14mm eyelets in black. Attempted to use it yesterday. It was absolutely crap. You had [...]
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Success!
Went into William Gee this morning and they exchanged the wrong zips I bought yesterday for the right ones.
No hassle at all.
I thoroughly recommend William Gee, they are friendly, know their products and luckily for me they are a wholesalers, so have a large stock of everything imaginable.
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Zips
I hate them.
Thoroughly and utterly hate them.
The garment I am in the process of making has 12 of them.
Most people hate sewing zips into garments, as its quite a difficult thing to get to look neat. But actually I don’t mind sewing them into garments, especially the open-ended type that you see down the front [...]
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