I’ve just finished my elective week- I chose millinery and I loved it !!

It was such a handmade process that was really difficult but so fulfilling once you had a hat in front of you that you designed and made from scratch.
I found the blocking the most difficult as steaming the felt and stretching it into the shape you chose is really hard- I think its one of those things you have to persevere on and then you find you are getting somewhere !
My hat looks quite 1940s - we had to do a mood board, design board and sketch book of research to go with it which I’m just finishing off.
I had such a good week and considering taking it again for next years elective!
Here are some pictures of my hat.....

Just updating with some of my favorite design sheets ....

We had individual tutorials on tues and they went ok but i realised i had chosen some awful fabrics and didnt really know what they were. But i talked to angie and i feel clearer about what i need to look out for. We had another fashion and art lesson today, i find it soooooo interesting and am looking forward to getting stuck into the research........ if i ever find time !

Marks !!

I've had two grades back this week the first was a complete shock !!
It was the creative design realisation modual- 65% which I thought I had struggled a little bit with and I thought I would do really bad !!
The only weaknesses were that I didn't write enough information on my blocks or write an evaluation. Also I was missing the invisible zip, but this was because i hadn't managed my time as well as i should have done. I think for my future moduals i'm going to pay more attention to what is in the breif as i missed the evaluation there.

The critical studies presentaion marks came back and I got 64% which I'm also really pleased with, because I was dreading speaking in front of the class. I thought the only issues I need to work on for my next presentaion is that I misunderstood the purpose of the written summary and explained the layout of my slides instead - I was also told to have a longer bibligraphy.

At the moment I am drowning in work !! Our design practices work seems to have esculated to a whole new level !I felt really good about my research sheets and idea ones because I think I have really learnt something from my previous research project and I can see why I got the mark I did. All my ideas were based around fabric and I was also stuck in the rut of working how in an A-level art style.
We were shown last years best work and there was sooooo much it was amazing as well so i felt a little concerned !!but..... im gonna get my head down and work hard this weekend so i can get my 90 (YES 90! ) designs done for tues and some fabric samples as well.

Here are my 5 idea sheets so far .......

We also began our design practices project exploring the concept of "container culture" we have less than a week to produce a sketch book of research and 5 idea sheets!! I was really stressed earlier in the week beacuse I was tryi ng to cram time for my sketch book whilst viewing houses - BUT ..... we found the most amazing house yesterday for second year, so thats off my mind now !!
We also did a fabric workshop thing with angie and I found it really helpful because if I'm honest I know very little about fabric types. We looked at loads of fabrics and gueesed what they were then they were revealed at the end. I learn't quite a lot, but i think I still need to look closer at fabric types to become more familiar with what they can do.