DISSERTATION!!!

All I have been doing all wekk is my dissertation, its driving me absolutly mad. I have 5000 words and basically i have finished. I need to find another thousand words from somewhere Im stuck with what else to write. I am completely out of research and ideas. all I need to do is bulk it out some how but im STUCK!!!!

snow day

Well it has been snowing all day and all of last nite here and my road is full of ice and as I have to drive through country roads in order to get to the M25 I have decided that it would be safer for me to stay home, Bbutbeing the complete wally I am have left all my toiles in university thinking I can work on them tomoro saves me taking them home and carrying them back not thinking that it mite snow, So I am a bit confused as to what im going to do. I have my sleeves to my jacket so I will sew them up and if I have some fabric then I will try and work on a top I have in mind but i think today will have to be dissertation day at least then I can get most of it done by monday to show kerry. Hopefully I can come in on wednesday or thursday to finish my jacket toile ready for our toile reveiw

toile development and dissertation

After my depressing two weeks that I recently had I have finally cheered up. I think I was in desperate need of an alcoholic night out with friends. I can say now that I am well and truely all cheered up. My last toile reveiw turned out to be suprisingly succesfull so I have sort of stuck with what I was doing. I wasnt very happy with the fit of my skirt last time so I have managed to make a new one I just havr to concerntrate on the waistband and it should be finished. I also started making a jacket and a top which I have to say the Jacket is turning out to be better than the top.

On that note I received my feedback on my dissertation yesterday which thank god turned out to be good, Kerry had no major issues with my dissertation just a few twicks here and there but nothing bad to say which is excellent!!! So I need to start on my final chapter so he can have a look at it and we can go through it together.

Line up part1

skirt toile side

skirt toile

jacket toile

back jacket toile

front jacket toile

shirt inside arm

side view of sleeve in arm

line up part 2

front skirt toile

1 toile outfit

back toile outfit

toile jacket

Just a few ideas for toiles, trying to get a twisted look with my skirt. I must admit that I am feeling very depressed just lately, stress of handing in my dissertation problems with my job and money. So I am struggling in terms of affording to buy fabric and photo's which i need in my book to show that I am doing work. I think all the stress is making me ill, but I just need to stay positive and do my best with what I have I get paid soon so hopefully I shud b able to pay for more fabric and media to do some fabric printing as I dont need as much money for petrol as we are only in uni for 2 weeks this month so that should give me some extra money plus I been working overtime so hopefully i should be able to do more next month to make up for the lack of work this month and hopefully i get out of this depressed phase soon. SMILE SMILE SMILE........

toile reveiw

Haven't been able to blog much this past week due to a major and anoying fault with my laptop, but its fine now. Was very scared and nervous about my toile reveiw as it was with new david and I had been receiving help from old david, but it turned out that I am going in the right direction with my dots and flamboyant colours. I am glad that he liked my work because I am starting to get more enthusiastic about it and I know where I am going with it now.

Vivienne Westwood Red Label s/s 2011 LFW

Went fabric shopping today but did not find as much as I would like. found materials with different print on which reminded me of candy. But I would like to get fabric that is made for tayloring like normal pin stripe and grey's so I can mix the two together.

thanks old david

Well after my silly crying session in class, David spoke to me and came up with some really good ideas that I can do to move my work forward. I said that I can see mmy work relating towards Vivienne Westwood style, and I told him how I liked the way she changes the rules with basic pattern cutting which makes her garments look quirky. David said my research with the cakes and sweets is quirky aswell. And as I am not a big fan on pattern cutting he suggested that I look at basic blocks and play around with them usoing the colours and the quirky prints I have in my research. FINALLY I feel so much more relaxed and I feel like I have a sence of direction in my work phewwwww... 

formative reveiw

Just to let off a bit of steam, got my feedback today. which I,m slightly pissed off about as i failed I know its not the final mark but their feed back doesn't make sence to me compared to others in my group i feel I have done a fair amount of work . The problem is I dont know what they want from me. Everytime they speek to me during the lessons I go back and do exacly what they ask me to. But yet if im doing exacly what they ask even though I am not happy with what they ask surely I should be doing alright. Turns out I'm not, my original idea has changed completely and it has turned into something they want not what I want. Which I was fine with before but now if I'm failing eventhough I'm doing what they ask then what am i supposed to do now. Im just so confused so upset and annoyed because it seems anything I do is not good enough and it's just putting me off this whole thing altogether.

toile reveiw

Well I can well and truely say that my toile reveiw did not go as well as I hoped, my work was described as too preety, it was the kind of look i was going for as I am interested in bridal wear and that is the path I would like to take when i finish. But i guess I have to take their advice and use it productively in order to get a good grade. So I was advised to draw over the top of real bodies, to take pictures of people and put my designs ontop. Well I decided not to take pictures of random people and insrtead decided to cut up my valued vogue magazines and getting different silhoetes to put my final collection on, I must admit my collection idea has changed completely and is more street than bridal. but by using the soft colours from my reseach and using features from bridal burlesque and candy I think I have a strong collection now.

I had to go and get my test results in the mourning so I was not able to make the mourning. I feel kind of bad that i decided to stay at home and work but i thought it would be at least 1 o clock that i would have made it into uni. So I decided to stay at home and work on my toile. I managed to finish 1 toile, well kinda im not keen on the waistband as I am very crap when it comes to waistbands. But seeing as I have to go in to uni tomoro for a dislexic test I am going to bring my skirt with me and try and get it to fit on the manikin correctly with a proper fastening. Im thinking of corsetry but it may end up just being a simple zip.

26th october

was very worried with the comments that new David gave me especially when last week he said I was doing ok. I was very upset with that so I managed to sum up my design development into 2 inital garments/ outfits and started working on one on the stand.

All I need to do now is make it for my final toile.

Sick day

Slightly worried that I can't make it in today, I did want to discuss my disertation today but I have to get a blood test done. I m also worried with the bad news I was given on friday concerning my health, he said I may have to go into hospital which means if I do I am going to be very behind even if it is for a day I dont know how long it will take to recover so I am very concerned at the moment.....

Designing

Im a little b it worried about what it says on the breif. Apparently we are meant to have 2 toiles ready to show in two weeks, which I am not prepared for. But I have been designing more and they are less party dress looking. I find that my designs are becoming more loser and flow better. Thanks to Laura's magical pens i find the designing process a little less stress full.

Here is some of the work i have done so far