Officially on Holiday!

Okay, so it should've happened last Friday but since I wasn't able to finish the shirt for textile and had to hand it in this morning at 10.30, my holiday officially starts now! Yey!

I'm taking one month to sort my brain, get some, scratch that, lots of inspiration for next year's signature collection. I bought myself a notebook and some jelly pens from this new stationery store at DFO for a start. Well, not really, it's supposed to be a travel journal but who knows, I might be inspired. =)

End of School Year

Yey!

Finally finished the last project for the year. I was supposed to hand it in last Thursday but the fabric paint hadn't dried yet. I don't like the outcome but right now, I'm so over it, I don't want to change it anymore. The good news is that the school is planning to offer a workshop of sorts to those taking the Advance Diploma course. Textiles, I mean. Students would be allowed to experiment on the techniques they want while S, the lecturer, would be supervising. I don't know when that will be implemented but it's one thing to look forward to.

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The Bias Gown project ended last Wednesday. There were great ones and simple ones. Mine was simple. It looked like a child's dress, no, more like a child-bride's dress. lol.

Here are some of what I thought were the really good ones.

Anu's dress

Hayley's dress

2 Major Projects Done

Still recovering from lack of sleep. I didn't sleep a wink the entire night before the Fashion Design 2 presentation on Tuesday and was quite proud of myself.

Unfortunately, not many were able to finish. It was, in my opinion, the worst presentation ever. In our class, there were only 3 of us who presented. Many didn't show up. The bad thing was, the others were given opportunity to present this coming Tuesday and would only be deducted 5% off the total mark instead of getting deducted 5% each day as was the rule. It was unfair for us who finished our stuff to meet the deadline.  So...two so far have expressed their intention of writing to the school to complain about this. Don't know if the school would do anything since they normally don't. 

Today, I finished my CAD homework using the materials I for Fashion Design 2. Cam was fairly happy, I think, since I used illustrator in almost all of my work.

Next week, the Textiles Folio is due as well as the Bias Gown.

Tomorrow, off the buy fabrics. Hopefully I get a good pile to be used for next year since I'm looking at lean months soon.

Sigh

Still not done smocking. Yes, you read it right. Smocking. No. Not Smoking. Smocking. The old world way of embellishing clothes by running seams through it. 

I'll post a photo when done.

Fabric Hunting...

...resulted in me spending nearly 500AUD. I was looking for a particular fabric, silk crepe, but didn't want to spend a lot on it after spending over 500AUD on my ball gown. Then, miracle of miracles, Steve, the school technician, said he had fabrics over at his shop. A bit skeptical but still hoping to look for good deals, I was amazed at the range of fabrics he had. They weren't on a roll but remnants but still! They were sooooo soft. I loved the silk, silk cotton, cotton voile! I was literally turning things over just looking for fabrics. 

And the prices? Hah! I bought his taffeta for 25AUD per metre when they retail about 80AUD at Tyler's. I decided to buy as much as my budget could afford in order to prepare for next year. 

Here are some of the fabrics I bought. You can't really tell the quality based on the photos but trust me, they are amazing!

And here are the Ball gowns

Ballgown presentation was yesterday. The principal, Miriam, was there to observe.

Me and my electric blue fish tail gown

Kathy's barbie style gown. Btw, she's amazing! She gave birth 3 or was it 4 months ago and has 3 other kids and she still manages to do great work.

Hayley's crazy design. 

Zoe's appliqued dress and bow.

Below is Jade's gown

I never thought I'd say this

but I'm loving Adobe Illustrator!

Yes, yes. I'm a terrible terrible late bloomer when it comes to Illustrator and even to Photoshop. It's amazing what one can do and I've only scratched the surface. 

Wheee!!!