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Here are a few photos of my work from Creative Design Realisation, my final design is below which I made into a very successful dress.


Coming to the end of our 3rd project since starting uni, and its been the hardest so far, learning completely new things and much more practical than the previous, which is better i suppose. But also tiring as a lot is going on, and I'm still not used to these early starts and long days. We also just had our first deadline for contextual and theoretical studies. I completed a 1500 word essay on Baroque period art work, not that brilliant, but it was just a first attempt. Harvard referencing is horrid.!

Got to finish making my dress on monday before handing it all in on tuesday, still bit of file work to complete as well. Shouldnt take too long. Off home this weekend with my girlfriend Jaime for my sisters 16th birthday. Jaime hasn't met most my family yet, they can all be quite over the top and excitable. 9 year old brother and 12 year old sister the worst with my mum just behind. Will probably end up going out with some mates from home as well whilst were there.

After Christmas...

I'm back in Leeds after the long christmas holiday's, finding it hard to get back into working life, and motivate myself.! Got some designs to do for the latest project we're working on, which is based on pattern cutting, we're going to need to create are own pattern to make a garment from. This is the first time I've ever done this sort of thing. Also work to do for my seminar, an essay to start and some picture analysing.

Over Christmas I worked quite a bit back home, and spent time with my family manily with my 9 year old brother, playing football. I still had my car at this point so travelling around at home was so much easier, didnt have to worry about lifts. Came back to Leeds for New Years which I spent with my girlfriend and some friends from here. Went home for a week and a bit after, before having to be back in Leeds for uni. Sold my car just before coming back to Leeds...

Catch up!!

Uni has been getting much more interesting and practical compared to the first project we did. We've actually gone on to make bits, and do some designs in the last few weeks which is much more interesting than research based projects. Lectures have stopped now for the year, leaving more time to get on with the essay and tasks set from Marcel in our seminars. Which I'm still yet to start. The seminar's have been getting a bit better although they still seem to be a repeat of what we already heard earlier in the lectures. I find it quite hard to sit their and listen and watch slide shows of historic art, hardly any of the lectures had any links to fashion, which is another reason why I prefer the seminar as Marcel does attempt to link in fashion. Also due to the size difference it's much easier to ask questions about the slide shows.

One of the last projects we did was Creative Approaches to Fashion where we got to do some more design work, creating garment ideas from abstract objects. The aim of this brief was to create a garment from three different shirts. I ended up making a jump suit which I feel turned out quite well.



Above is a photo of my final garment which Jaime tried on for me. I had to add a couple of safety pins to hold bits together, as we weren't allowed to use a sewing machine for this project. I've also included a photo of one of my research and design pages.
Here is an example of what I was talking about, using strange shaped objects like an orange skin to create the shape and structure for a garment.