final post for the term

Since i have started this blog i have found it easy to record my work and keep like a diary of my work so far. This blog is ver helpful will be using it agian to keep my work up to date and to show people what i do at the Arts Insitute.

Current Design Project

At the moment i am doing my Sports V Fashion project for my final term. I choosen to do a jumpsuit and a bikin for my sports wear, i have decisded to do it for speedo. You look at speedo and thing there very on perfomace but i want to take a part of the brand and turn it towards the summer and the beach. so far i am doing a desing sketch book and my trwil and patterns done. From my 1st design i have relized what i dont like about it and during the twril making have changed parts. At the moment i am doing the pattern for my twril of my bikin, i didnt decide to do the bikin intill a couple of weeks ago i fort as my jumpsuit didnt take me long to make, i trought that a bikin would be best to go with the jumpsuit to complete the outfit. The metrails that i am using are performance fabrics the jumsuits is made from jersey and the bikin is water proof latax. The work is going fine at the moment i hope i keeps going well.

Presentation

In are pprd lesson we got a task given to us to go into groups of 4 or 5 and each group was given a fashion capital, my group got London, we had to do a presention on it. i really liked this group exericse it teaching you to work with others and on your presentation and speeking skills for a fruture carrer. Once we were in are groups we discusted what we were going to put into the work and who was doing what. I got to do icons this includes modals, like kate moss and twiggy to great British icons. I also helped anuther group member do the designer page and the backgrounds.

Lectra and my T-Shirt

To make are Jersey T-Shirts we used the program Lectra on the PCs. Lectra is the worlds leader in integrated technology solutions (it is CAD/CAM equipment). It is used in the textiles, and Fashion industry. I like this software because it was different and your patterns become more accurate. And if you need to do any adjustments to your pattern it simple to use quick and saves a lot of time. we used lectra for are t-shirts, we made the patterns from blocks and scanned them in to the software and did the measurements and adjustments to create the patterns. Once the patterns where made they where printed out using a huge printing call the plotter it prints and cuts the pattern out at the time. 

This was the first time i had ever made anything with jersey fabric, it comfortable to use. And i learnt that jersey is overlocked together, this was a good exercise to used to be on the overlocker more as it made me more comfortable using it. This project to prepare us for are fashion v sports project as those garments would be performance fabrics. i really proud of my T-shirt as it is the only garment up to this point that didn't go wrong and there was no holes.