Sewing
The first half of the sewing class dragged in a bit this morning; we were going over the in's and out of what was required of us, just the usual for the first day in class. We got the names of a quite a few wedding dress designers to check out for inspiration for the bridal and evening wear. Maggie showed us some of the Jackets she has made, I lied some of them, didn’t like others. I particularly liked a black one with crossed pin tucks on the front and a gold button on each cross. It was lovely, very Michael Jackson. Yeah I like Michael Jackson, sue me!!!
Once we had got the boring stuff out of the way, we went on to start on the Jacket toile. There was some debate on the size of the collars but most people were alright. Julie’s in fact were “perfect” which is pretty cool.
Maggie was telling us today about a friend’s daughter who she made a wedding dress for. The wedding dress it seems had a very exciting journey around the world in order to avoid it going into the luggage hold. It went from UK to Pisa, Pisa to Tuscany, Tuscany to Munich and Munich to London were it remains for the time being before being brought back for display. Maggie also made the bridesmaid dresses, mother of the bride outfit, cravats and waistcoats (I think, not sure about the waistcoats). She showed us some pictures. I have to say that is quite possibly the most stunning wedding dress I have seen, truly beautiful.
The class finished before I was ready so Laura and I stayed back a while to finish off. This has left me with less to do at home, and since I’m off college from Thursday until Sunday, I like to enjoy my spare time.
Store Design and Layout
I was dreading this class a little to be honest, I found that the class boded really well with Sandra last year and had really looking forward to working with her again. Thankfully, Elizabeth is back on form and feeling much better after an illness last year. Hopefully the classes will be more regular and productive this year.
Elizabeth recommended two books to buy which would be beneficial to anyone planning to go into this field after college. The library apparently has one copy and I hope to get in there and get it out before it’s snapped up, however I can’t find my student card. Typical. I’ll have to search for it over the next few days.
We were then given an outline of the learning outcomes to be carried out over the year and an idea of the timeline. We never got the printed information though as the photocopiers wouldn’t bring it over and Elizabeth wanted to stand her ground and not send anyone over for it.
I hope that the deadlines are stuck to this year and the class runs smoothly; it doesn’t look particularly difficult but can become quite stressful if it disorganised.
Well that’s us off for the weekend. Will be back Monday with lots more thrilling tales of college life.
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
An Eventful Day
Events Management
This mornings class began with Elaine telling us a bit about herself and her experience. She has such a wide range of skills, she seems to have varied interests and abilities, I wonder if this is why she was chosen to take the class. This would seem like the sensible option, although I still wish Johanna could be involved in the organisation as she has current and relevant experience which I think could be very beneficial.
We then went on to do a couple of questionaires. The first was a time management questionaire, my score wasn't great but then, that's probably because, quite frankly, I'm crap at it. The second questionaire was a team roles inventory, this sugested how we fit inot a team. It transpired that I am a shaper (Highly strung, out-going, and dynamic) and an implementor (Conservative, dutiful and predicatable). I'm not sure how acurate these are but I'll be sure to keep it in mind.
After discussing the results of the questionaires and writing down a list of our qualities we went on to discuss plans for the fashion show. The team will be split into four groups; creative, admin, research and financial. homework for next week is to choose which team we would like to be in, why we would like to be in it and what we have to offer the role.
Pattern Cutting
THe first half of pattern cutting was spent finishing off the paper pattern for our jacket. It was mostly finished but seam allowances had to be altered. Whilst we were doing it I was telling Anne about my little blog. She seemed quite interested and asked where it was. "on the internet" I said, I thought poor Anne was a bit of a computer Dinasaur, bless her. It turns out she new fine well that blogs were on the internet and was interested to know what site it was on and if it was public. Egg on my face me thinks.
After lunch the fun really started. We were all given a piece of paper and had to pair up
to draw round each other onto the piece of paper. This resulted in us getting a better idea of differeing body shapes. It was very effecitive, and bloody hilarious, not least for the rather risque moments of having another ladies hands between your legs trying to draw the lines up your leg. Once we had finished drawing around each other and making notes of our weird and wonderful body shapes, we drew outfit on each others bodys (paper body's I mean)now we could have done lovely ball gowns or high fashion, bit oh no. Laura decides I would be much bette suited to being a hooker. A BLOODY HOOKER!!. Hilarious. Hoop earings knee high furry boots and cigarette hanging out of my mouth to boot. Retaliation was inevitable. She looked great as a dodgy elvis impersonator. Dodgy rubber elvis wig, ope top catsuit with belt, and lovely chest hair protruding from the open front. I even drew her a lovely mcdonalds meal beside her.
Well fun day over. Had to go home. Look forward to sewing class tomorrow with Maggie, and store layout with Elizabeth. I miss Sandra!!!!
This mornings class began with Elaine telling us a bit about herself and her experience. She has such a wide range of skills, she seems to have varied interests and abilities, I wonder if this is why she was chosen to take the class. This would seem like the sensible option, although I still wish Johanna could be involved in the organisation as she has current and relevant experience which I think could be very beneficial.
We then went on to do a couple of questionaires. The first was a time management questionaire, my score wasn't great but then, that's probably because, quite frankly, I'm crap at it. The second questionaire was a team roles inventory, this sugested how we fit inot a team. It transpired that I am a shaper (Highly strung, out-going, and dynamic) and an implementor (Conservative, dutiful and predicatable). I'm not sure how acurate these are but I'll be sure to keep it in mind.
After discussing the results of the questionaires and writing down a list of our qualities we went on to discuss plans for the fashion show. The team will be split into four groups; creative, admin, research and financial. homework for next week is to choose which team we would like to be in, why we would like to be in it and what we have to offer the role.
Pattern Cutting
THe first half of pattern cutting was spent finishing off the paper pattern for our jacket. It was mostly finished but seam allowances had to be altered. Whilst we were doing it I was telling Anne about my little blog. She seemed quite interested and asked where it was. "on the internet" I said, I thought poor Anne was a bit of a computer Dinasaur, bless her. It turns out she new fine well that blogs were on the internet and was interested to know what site it was on and if it was public. Egg on my face me thinks.
After lunch the fun really started. We were all given a piece of paper and had to pair up
to draw round each other onto the piece of paper. This resulted in us getting a better idea of differeing body shapes. It was very effecitive, and bloody hilarious, not least for the rather risque moments of having another ladies hands between your legs trying to draw the lines up your leg. Once we had finished drawing around each other and making notes of our weird and wonderful body shapes, we drew outfit on each others bodys (paper body's I mean)now we could have done lovely ball gowns or high fashion, bit oh no. Laura decides I would be much bette suited to being a hooker. A BLOODY HOOKER!!. Hilarious. Hoop earings knee high furry boots and cigarette hanging out of my mouth to boot. Retaliation was inevitable. She looked great as a dodgy elvis impersonator. Dodgy rubber elvis wig, ope top catsuit with belt, and lovely chest hair protruding from the open front. I even drew her a lovely mcdonalds meal beside her.
Well fun day over. Had to go home. Look forward to sewing class tomorrow with Maggie, and store layout with Elizabeth. I miss Sandra!!!!
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