Kaledo

For our draping project we had to chose from 5 dresses as our starting inspiration. This is the dress i chose and because i have recently been introduced to kaledo i though i'd practice by doing an illustration of my chosen dress. Using kaledo is soo much easier than illustrator and for future projects i will definitly use it to create my illustrations.

Draping on the stand...

This is my final jacket, i was really pleased with the outcome because i was a little worried about how the collar would turn out. I forgot my own buttons so had to use some from the uni which were pretty tiny but other than that i was happy.

Development of my jacket

It was good to actually start making somthing, there were so many pieces to the jacket i was possetive i was going to lose a few but i didnt and it all went well. Struggled with the collar a bit though.

Today was our presentation day, we all met up as a group and practice just a few more times before actually presenting because i think we were all a bit nervouse. I dont really mind talking in front of people and i found it a lot better when we were stood up there as a group. People seemed interested in our idea, and im think it went pretty well. The link to our group blog is below if you want to have a look.
http://fdafashiongroup.blogspot.com/

Jacket pattern cutting

Getting back into pattern cutting after not doing it for soo long was definitely a struggle on the first day, but as we got more into it i started to pick up and remember things quickly again. Just needed a little re-fresh.

PPRD - Group project.

For our first PPRD project we got into groups of 6 and each group got given an object from the modip museum. Our object was a hat made from fine cardboard which was in the honeycombe form, it pretty hard to explain so there are some images to show you. When we were first given the object we had no idea what it was because before it is expanded into a hat its doesnt really look like anything. We decided to keep a group blog to upload all our research to instead of a sketchbook because that way everyone can access it when they want, we also decided to stick to accessories with a theme of tribal and incorperating origami into it as well.
At the moment im not entirely sure about this project and how well its going to go working in a group but i hope it does, because it will be interesting to see how other people work.