Monday 8th February= Had design with Karen and she showed us the difference between a fashion drawing and a fashion illustration. She then showed us how to draw a fashion illustration. I found this really interesting and helpful. We each had to pick an image from a magazine and copy it into a fashion illustration. After we did this Karen showed us how to add surface and texture to the picture using different medias and how to add colour. I really enjoyed this exercise and in the end I prefered my picture to the origional! For next weeks session we have to draw 3 of our own designs in illustration form with texture and colour. I am going to enjoy this homework!

Tuesday 9th= We had IT with Jamie and we worked on our illustration skills with making working sketches for our Lectra project. I still need a lot of practise with drawing on illustration, I'm good at adding colour though!

Wednesday 10th= Buying and Merchandising lecture, we looked at Fashion Research and "Researching with a range plan" I found this to be quite obvious and common sence but I suppose some people wouldn't think of it. We were given a maths paper at the end of the lesson to have done by next lesson, it looks really hard. I think I shall be asking for some help!

Thursdsay 11th= Had a jersey workshop this morning so that we knew what to do when it came to make our jersey t-shirts. I found it really easy! I thought I was going to find it hard as I have worked with jersey before and found it very frustrating as it kept stretching but it was fine today, I think it is because I was usining the correct machine and thread whereas I sewed it by hand last time. I finished all of the samples today, which I am really pleased with.

Friday 12th= Printed off my t-shirt pattern on the plotter which we had a bit of difficulty with as it didn't like something about my pattern. Both Pat and Jody had a look to see what it was and it took them a little while to work out why it wasn't printing. I don't know what it was but it was well pasased my limited knowledge to work it out! We got it printed in the end, and I got straight to work with getting started with the construction of my t-shirt. I had half of it complete by the end of the day which I am pleased with after my slow start.

Wednesday 3rd February= I had Buying and Merchandising, we learnt about Defining and Understanding Seasnons and "The Promotional Calender" I didn't realsie the fashion industry had so many seasons!
Thursday 4th= Made my t-shirt pattern in Lectra ready to be printed out on the plotter which I shall be doing next week. We used Modaris to make it compatible with the plotter, the screen looked really confusing but I picked up what you put where quite quickly which was a pleasant surprise.
Friday 5th= I had a private study day today so I worked on my Manifesto project, it is now starting to feel like I am getting somewhere with after my hic-cup with Alana a few weeks ago.

Thursday 28th January= We had Lectra, which I am starting to get used to now. I can't believe how much quicker it is to do pattern cutting on the computer than by hand! I think this is partly the reason that i enjoy it, if it was such a long process on the computer as well I probably wouldn't like it.
Monday 1st February= Had design in the afternoon, Allana looked through my work and said she didnt understand what I was doing and said that someone else was also doing a project on clocks. She told me to look at speed camera, which looks and records things in slow motion, such as a person walking down the stairs, you would see every single piece of movement however big or small. It does make you think about what you are doing and how you do it. I went off to the library to research more indepth into it, I already knew abit from a previous movement project. I spent all afternoon and evening researching it and concluded that it didn't inspire me to design fashion, I could make a lovelly textile wall hanging, but I was getting no inspiration for fashion. So I decided to go against what Allana advised me but decided to compromise and look at just one clock, as she had also said I had to many images of different clocks. I am going to look at just one very pretty, delicate pocket watch that is very old. Ihe intrecate detailing that is on the front of the watch is beautiful and I can take a lot of inspiration for print designs that I can use on my garment.
Tuesday 2nd= Split groups again, had design first thing and told Allana what I had decided to do, she wasnt too happy with me but liked the pocket watch I had chosen to look at. I ripped out the pages in my sketchbook that I had already done and started again. I drew a the front of the pocket watch which took me allday as it is so delicatly detailed, it looks really good now though, I carried on drawing it in Jamie's IT lesson, in between finishing my working sketch for Lectra, I put it onto a page with a grid that has all of the information about the garment that the pattern cutter will need.

Monday 25th January= Chose my colour palette in design, I have gone for grey, blue, purple and red. I wanted simple colours that are striking yet not in your face. My customer wants to look good and stylish but in a show off way.
26th= Split day, in design I put my research of clocks and watches into my sketch book and in IT we made a working sketch for our lectra project. I found it hard getting the shape for my tshirt. people say it's easy drawing on a computer but I find it really hard, I practise it and still cant do it very well.
27th= Buying and merchandising, John found out that I work for New Look and said that his youngest son and his girlfriend work for them aswell. They are both in Head Office. He talks about them and the company quite alot in his examples and I find this quite interesting, I understand it more aswell as I can picture what he's talking about at my work, I find it harder when he talks about other company's although I do understand what he is talking about.

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.