Keep Calm And Carry On... Five words that I am constantly repeating to myself over and over at the moment. Not because I find it a cute phrase or anything amusing like that, genuinely because if I didn't I think I would have cracked by now!
However, fear not, they're helping. We were given our grand final deadline on Monday at college, my heart was racing, palms became moist and a dizziness came upon me (sadly I could not blame the glorious sunshine or a possible heart attack as I knew either would be too easy!) Nope, it was the upcoming deadlines and stress about to descend. Luckily for me I cope best under pressure, if it's a slack environment I am a slack worker and in this industry being laid back is not an option, and I am learning this fast!
Something that has reassured me however is, and I can not believe I am saying this after what feels like a life time, my pattern cutting classes. I am finally, touch wood, getting the hang of this brutal situation. Maybe it's fate, maybe it's a passing phase or maybe, just maybe, I've managed to kick myself up the rear end and decided to just get on with it.
Who knows.
What was quite nice, was the feedback I received for my post earlier about making my shirt (don't worry it's still not finished, I haven't changed that much just yet!) Anyway, it was a real confidence boost hearing from one of my readers that they found the post interesting because to be perfectly honest I had no idea what on earth I was writing about, I don't know what I'm doing in the lessons and find them intimidating, so writing about it was even harder. So I thank you, that small encouragement gave me a positive push in the right direction. FORWARD!
By forward I don't only mean in the direction sense, I also mean literally, I moved on to my next practical dilemma, the maxi skirt - this is currently pending.
But also onto the mini dress, well, slip dress but I think mini dress sounds better and reminds me of the swinging sixties. I'm really trying to stay focused with this and I'm really hoping that it inspires me for our final show as I am currently in limbo with that situation and have no idea where I am going with it.
The pattern of my mini dress was pretty straight forward, I'm looking forward to the outcome as it's in camo print (already this has given me the idea of maybe using a little Vivienne Westwood inspiration for my final piece, give it a little punk couture flare to it maybe?! We'll see...) But for now we're going to learn to walk before learning to run and get the mini dress sorted, to do this I thought since you enjoyed the first pattern cutting post, I'd follow suit with the dress, but this time it'll be more in depth.
These are a few images of the first step to a slip dress, this evening I cut all the pieces out ready to be assembled tomorrow in lesson so I'll be sure to keep you posted.
As long as I Keep Calm And Carry On with this we shall have ourselves a fashion show in June, lets just hope I don't loose it at last minute. But just as reassurance, I've never been very good at letting people down so it would be a shame to start now.
These are the maxi skirt patterns above, I'll update on this with the finished product as soon as it's completed. My sewing ability makes me nervous so I'm pretty slow at starting a new task sadly.
All the above are the pattern pieces for my camo mini dress, they are hard to read and I am sorry for this, my blackberry doesn't capture detail as well as I wished!
No comments:
Post a Comment