Monday 18th= Deadline day for design, I got up really early so that I would be on time! Everything had to be handed in for 9.30am and I was here for 9.20, I was very pleased with myself, (i normally get in just gone 9.30!) it all went ok, filled out the forms, wrote my name on a piece of paper and left it on my pile of work. We got to go home after that and I started working on my manifesto project.
Tuesday 19th= Had IT with Jamie and did research for Australian fashion week and started putting the presentation together.
Wednesday 20th= Had our first buying and merchandising lesson with John, I found it really interesting looking into the business side of fashion, it was the first lecture I have been in that havent fallen asleep! it was quite a proud moment when I left the hall!
Thursday 21st= Had our first Lectra lesson, I found it was quite good, got a little confused with how everything works on the computer but im sure with practise I will get better and less confused.

Monday 11th January 2010= First lesson back after christmas, we had design and learnt how to make a customer profile for our collection. I have done mine on a young mum who has lot her confidence and fashion style since becoming a mother. I think it sounds quite interesting and think it will be fun designing with her in mind. As we have a design deadline in next monday for all of the projects that we have done so far (not including this one) I have been solely working on them getting them all up together making sure i have everything for hand in.

Monday 7th December= Went to London to view some exhibitions we went to Somerset House and saw some really cool fashion pieces I really liked it and could have spent along time looking but there were lots of people and they kept getting in the way and walking into me if I was stood still looking at a piece. After looking at the fashion exhibition I looked at a photographer Nick Knight in action I didnt know who the people were who he was photographing, they looked like hairy bikers and were topless, the call sheet said who they were but I didn't recognise the name, I think they were in a band, they had a band like name. After lunch we went to the V&A, and had a quick look round, didn't have a very long time though as we had to catch the coach home.
Before christmas= Have been really busy with construction getting my shirt done for the deadline that was 18th December! Deadline time was 4pm and I worked upto the dot! My shirt was finished but my samples in my folder weren't completly finished. My pattern cutting was due in at the same time but I had already finished all of that previously. I was so happy when I had everything handed in, I felt alot less stressed. On the monday before we broke up for christmas we were given the brief for our next design project, it is called manifesto and we can do it on anything we like, I think it sounds really exciting.

Monday 30th November= We presented our melting pot projects to the whole class, I was so nervous, I hate talking in front of groups of people, I had all of my work together apart form my sketchbook wasnt finished but as Karen said it didnt have to be finished for this week, I wasnt bothered, everything else was finished. I thought it went ok although they moaned that my sketchbook wasnt finished. Hardly anyone was nearly finished and there was only 6 of us with mood boards and final design boards. They told us off for not having the project finished. I felt relieved after I had presented mine it felt like a lot of weight had been lifted off my shoulders.
Wednesday 2nd December= We found out that the deadline for all of our Illustration work is in for next week! Steve gave us a sheet of paper with everything that has to be finished and handed in. I have everything apart form the scuba diver, I still can't find it. I redid it which didn't take me long, and then I started writing the evaluation of the class that we also have to have handed in for next week. It isnt a long evaluation but I'm in more of a creative mood than a writing mood and didn't get very far with it. We have next weeks lessons to have everything completed so I shall have it finished by then.
Thursday 3rd= Made the pattern for my shirt with no tutorial help, it was easier than I thought it would be, we got help form each other though which made it easier, it seemed what one person knew another didn't, but they knew something the other didn't, it was very good team work!
Friday 4th= Finished sewing my shorts and learnt how to stitch a curve, I found this easier than I thought I would. I was really relieved when I had finished my shorts, all of my garments are finished now. Next challenge is to make my shirt.

Tuesday 24th November= Catch up session with Jamie. I did the drawings of trainers from the session I missed, Hazel helped me do the first trainer and then I carried on doing 6 more on my own. It was quite easy. After that I did some research on Australia's fashion week for the presentation of fashion weeks around the world in january.
Wednesday 25th= Illustration with Steve, we carried on making our logos and labels, I made a few small changes to mine and wrote up about my 'collection', I finished it early! I was very surprised, I went through all of the work I have done with him so far, I have everything together apart from the scuba diver we did in the first lesson with him, I'm sure I had it on my memory stick but is not there, I shall look on my laptop when I get home as I have everything saved on there from my laptop as back up.
26th= Today was our last tutored pattern cutting lesson, we did different collars which I found it quite easy although you do have to be perfectly accurate to make sure it will fit perfectly around the neck.

Friday 20th November= Had a catch up session in the studio, I finished my bodice which took me FOREVER! I didnt have that much left to do so I didn't think it would take me that long, how WRONG I was! It took me ALL day! I kept making little mistakes and had to keep unpicking what I had jut sewn. I think I spent most of my time unpicking! I got there eventually and it felt like such an achievement when I had finaaly completed it at 4.00pm! i didnt get everything I wanted to get done as I wanted Caroline to help me redo some of my seams but that will have to wait for another day.

Monday 23th November= We drew manaquins first thing this morning in design. We drew them in different angles and after a while a drawing them differently each time made a human figre out of them and then added clothes on top. I enjoyed drawing the manaquins but after a while I got a bit frustrated because I' couldnt get the proportions of the body right. Having done life drawing for a year I felt really stupid that I was struggling to do it, but I am fine with copying, it's when I have to do it from memory that I find it hard, like today. After break thankfully I got to do something else which was shade with charcoal and then rub marks into it with a rubber. I have done exercises like these before so I felt really comfortable doing this and Sarah complimented my work and said that she could tell I had done it before. This was a huge confidence boost after this mornings downfall. After lunch we got to carry on with our melting pot project so I headed to the library and got swallowed by books on hinduism.

Tuesday 10th= I missed Jamie's IT session as I had a meeting with my learning support worker, in a couple of weeks we have a catch up day so I shall catch up on todays session then. After lunch we had a session with Sarah, she showed us a powerpoint and put us in groups for a topical debate on eco-friendly fashion that we are going to have after christmas. I am in the "for" panel, I think it is going to get quite heated as there are some big voices in the group! It shall certainly be interesting.

Wednesday 11th= Finished my fashion logo for my design label with some images that I copyed in Illustrator and some information on the "collection" I had made. I finished quite early as I had done most of it last lesson so i got copying images from the internet, I'm getting quite good at it now!

Thursday 12th= Pattern cutting was ok today, we did about buttons which I really enjpyed because I LOVE buttons! I have a MASSIVE collection of them, alot of them I only have the one of as I find them wherever I go, especially at work they are everywhere! We also did facings and interfacings, I really enjoyed doing this is found it really easy and understood what I had to do straight away, unlike everyone else, they all seemed to struggle, it made me very happy that I understood what we were doing for once!