Expect more of this for the next two weeks. My baby girl is out of town and I have my brain to myself. So it's work for me and that's exciting!! Long stretches of work. But of course I think two weeks will be just enough. The backyard is a disaster after yesterday's sewage emergency dig up, but I'm told it will 'settle'. I hope so it looks very upset!! 

This little mess is going to cost me over $3000!! 

Oh my lovely Blog. I forgot how pretty you are. I'll be back soon. xx e

The Dresses! TAFE Final Assesment

I'm not sure how long it's been since i was here.

I've been in a kind of weird place, sewing and 

working at home, the printer eventually ran out of 

paper - giving me a break from the paperwork that 

was to go with the dress. Then it was time.

The presentation went well, lots of good comments

one small criticism of my garment board ( a better 

way of attaching fabric samples) and then it was all

over. All that work, mountains of paper printed

and it was over in 10 minutes. 

The finished dress.

Back with the reveal and two vintage buttons. 

The belt, I kept loosing the tongue out of that. 

The toile, I will complete this and it's for sale soon. 

I made a little hat prop for the dress presentation. 

Ready for marking. 

But that's how it goes. Now onto the next dress. 

The idea of this assessment is to product an outfit

which is an  'injection piece' into an 

Australian Label for SS2012

The desire is to boost sales. 

My chosen label is Anna Thomas

Here's the plan so far. 

The drawing, not sure if doing a belt or pockets at this stage. 

The fabric, 1940s rayon. 

The toile. 

Centre fold mark i need to get rid of. 

Plunging fabric into soapy water was pretty exciting, can you see how
much dust was in there?

The burn test.

So, hopefully my life will be back to 'normal' soon, 

the 14th everything is due for marking, then a 

fashion parade at the town hall

the following week. 

Can't wait to show you how it turns out. !

x

e

Sneak Peek!

This is just a taster of what's to come over the next few - weeks? months? however long it takes me to get them onto the website or Ebay in between my last term at TAFE. It's going to be a full on term so I can't promise anything. I recently unearthed a wonderful collection of vintage fabrics, I took a day and photographed them all, now I just have to do the rest, the time consuming part. 

Enjoy!