The day is nearly here..

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Hand in is tomorrow and I’ve never been more prepared! All samples are mounted, sketchbook is complete, garments are pressed and hung up and the report is printed! After 10 long weeks I can’t believe hand in is tomorrow, there’s been some ups and downs but I can say that I’m very happy with the outcome and now I want to take textiles to a new level for my fmp. After trying girls and boys wear this term to experiment with both genders, I’ve now made a final decision to stick with boys wear, and experiment further with that specialism. Hopefully over the summer I will manage to secure placements at kids wear fashion companies to expand my knowledge and experience and make me ready for 3rd year!

But now it’s time to hand in and celebrate the end of 2nd year!

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Two down one to go!

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The past week has been all about the making and manufacture of my textile garment, and after hours of weaving and hours or embroidery my shorts and t-shirt are done! The process of my shorts was to bondaweb felt onto the cotton drill in the pattern I created on one of final samples and embroid on top of it which was created with a pattern inspired by research in my sketchbook.The process of my t-shirt was reverse applique which consisted of weaving a layer to go underneath the jersey, embroidering shapes on the jersey and then cutting the middle out to reveal the weave.

Overall I’m really pleased with the outcome of these two garments, and they compliment each other perfectly, can’t wait to finish the dress!

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Which one will it be? ..

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Today at uni was all about deciding which design was going to be the final garment. Thinking about shape, size, style and composition Jenny and I decided on a couple. My shapes throughout my first 20 designs are simple but with interesting textiles techniques to compliment the simple shapes. We decided I would toile a t-shirt and pair of shorts for the boy and oversized t-shirt dress for the girl. My textiles technique would be felt appliqued onto cotton drill for the shorts and cotton for the dress with illustrated style embroidery. The boys t-shirt would use reverse applique with weave underneath, all the colours complimenting each other.

Here are the designs that I have chosen..

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Now it’s time to starting toiling these designs!

Smooth sailing ahead..

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Don’t be scared..

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The past two days have been all about creating designs from my fashion collages, after doing two projects on kidswear my templates have been successful but this project I wanted to create a slight weirdness to them and make them unique and almost scary. This represents my love hate relationship towards children. Yes, sounds peculiar considering I’m going to head into the kidswear industry at some point and am currently doing projects surrounded by them, but I absolutely love designing clothes for them, I’m just not overly keen on children themselves. Bar from my adorable little nephew. And maybe a few others..

Anyway after creating this template I designed from the fashion collages I created and here are a few of the 20 that I achieved.

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PAQ-A-RAN zine Issue One

Here is our PAQ-A-RAN zine issue one which is published on Issuu. After  many days of collating images and designs, it all came together and the outcome of the zine is the standard we wanted to achieve. It starts with who we are and what PAQ-A-RAN is, initial research, moving onto designs and collections, then showing the eight ways to change your basic jumper. Finishing off the zine with our app and social media.

ENJOY!

 

http://issuu.com/paqaran/docs/paq-a-ran_zine_8cd9ec8ea44dee

 

 

I NEED HELP.

Over the next few weeks at University I’ll be learning how to write a fashion CV and what it takes to make it in the fashion industry. Personally this is my worst nightmare. I cannot write about myself in a positive way, the words just don’t appear in my head and I end up getting myself all stressed out. This, I know is something I need to improve on, as no fashion company is going to give me a chance if I can’t write a good, original CV. That’s why I’ve come on here to write this post as I feel it helps me connect to my brain more, and I can go back to my CV and write a good personal profile that will get me noticed- hopefully.

Being negative has never helped me, therefore I need help to change.