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.