2007…crikey, where did it go?

Well, 2007 is nearly over, though I’m not sure how.  Its been quite a year.At this moment I’m packing to go home from uni for a couple of weeks (as I’m sure you can tell, I’m making lots of progress with the packing!).  But I don’t think its even as long as two weeks long to be honest.  My Christmas holidays are flashing past and I have so much to do!   But I’m seriously looking forward to seeing all my friends and family and puppy and being in a house where the heating works and eating loads and being looked after and generally being somewhere else for a bit.  I’m making a coat at the moment.  Supposedly I’ve been making it for a good week or so, but progress is incredibly slow, and I’m freezing to death every time I leave the house at the moment because I don’t have a coat.  I will get it made.  Though it may be summer by then.  I shall post some pictures as it emerges.And I hope to post a blog or two over the next week or so looking back at 2007 a bit.  Reviewing college stuff, mentioning exciting things I’ve done and naming a few things I’ve loved this year, music, fashion, books, things like that.  Just a bit of an overview really.So now I shall go actually pack, as my mother has volunteered to come pick me up even though today is the busiest day for traffic in the year (she chose today, I said yesterday was fine!) so I should be at least nearly ready when she gets here!x 

Unsure…

Ok, so I’m a little unsure if I’m really supposed to put pictures of my jacket up, hence the delay, as I am one of the people chosen to present my work to amoosi in January, with a view to them buying it.Its very cool to be chosen, obviously, but I want to redo some of my design sheets by then, because I’m not too happy with them.And as amoosi haven’t made me sign anything to say that the project was confidential, nor have we been told not to show people the work, I shall put some pictures up here.  I don’t see that there would be anything wrong with that, they would have said not to otherwise.Very basic pictures taken on the mannequin, but you get the idea… 

 So there you are.  The tonal differences are because its made up of 3 different garments (which you may or may not know depending on what else you’ve read on this blog), but I think they work pretty well together.

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Relief

I have been feeling very guilty recently as the visitor figures for this blog have been growing and growing but I’ve been posting less and less! (I blame the fact I gave my mum the address!)

But sadly I have barely had time to eat, sleep or think with the amount of work I have had to do, let alone blog. But yesterday I handed in my project for Amoosi, and I can now relax, a little.

This was the eco-fashion project, where we were given materials from Oxfam and had to turn them into a very well made, high fashion garment. Not easy considering the materials were garments that were so bad they had travelled around several charity shops without being sold.

But I did it. I made a very fitted, tailored (though now I’ve done my tailoring course and seen how real tailoring is done I resent using that word as a description) jacket, with very complicated curved panelling around the bust and a draped hem at the back. Basically I made life very difficult for myself. It was made out of corduroy and took 4 garments to be able to made this 1 jacket, which shows how complicated the pattern was.

A week before hand in we had our toile critique, which was cutting it fine really, as that only left us a week to make our final garment as well as completing everything else, and my teachers told me that because the fit wasn’t right i should start from scratch and re patterncut it and toile it before making my final thing. Great. That made things worse. I had already let myself get behind on the project, though i still can’t quite work out where it all went wrong because it feels like I’ve been working consistently all term. And then on top of that I had to write off the last 2 weeks work and start again.

So I blame that for the all nighter I had to pull on Sunday night to get the work done for Monday’s hand in. I’ve never had to stay up all night to get something done in my entire life. But I got it done.

Was really pleased with how my final jacket came out (especially as I made it in 2 days). The style worked really well and it was beautifully made. The rest of my work wasn’t as good as I would have liked it to be. I just didn’t have enough time. But I ticked all the boxes so I should at least get an ok mark even if its not as high as I would like it to be.

When I get it back I will post some pictures of the jacket for you to see.

For now I am going to go back to sleep, still trying to catch up for the 41hours that I was awake for over Sunday and Monday!

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