Shirt Project Toiles

So my toiles are going really well, i have 2 now. The first toile needed a few adjustments such as raising the armhole and taking the shoulder in about 1cm. They were fairly easy and now i have finished my second it needs about 5 tiny adjustments and i'm ready to cut! Excuse the bad quality images, the lighting in our lounge is poor!



Second Toile with a few pins in one side for adjustments



First Toile (very crumpled)

The final fabrics are going to be sweatshirting and cotton drill. I had absolute hell looking for sweatshirting, i orginally found some in Bristol at 'Fabricland' but it was called 'baby tracksuiting'. It was the perfect weight and was brush backed, leaving an incredibly soft texture i felt this really conveyed the comfort element of my garment. At just £3.19 a meter it was perfect so i got a corner cut and took it back to uni for my lecturer's approval. I was given the go ahead and went back to Bristol just 3 days later to find out they had sold all of it and there was no more in any store! After this stressed me out i decided to search online and yet came back with nothing for awhile until i found a site that would ultimately cost about £27 or an ebay seller that would cost £12 and so i chose the cheaper one. Everything went through just fine until i get an email a few days later telling me my order was cancelled and they had run out of stock! Which led me to question why it was displayed for auction on ebay at all! So today i paid £26.85 for just two meters of sweatshirting and recorded delivery with fingers crossed it arrives tomorrow! I still need to buy my cotton but i have to wait for the sweatshirting to do a colour match as everything must be the same shade of white. I want this finished by Friday as hand in is tuesday and i would quite like the weekend to make my sketch book better. So wish me luck!

Shirt Project

Our current project is entitled 'The Perfect Shirt' and our lecturer is a wonderful Japanese designer called Kenichi Nakayama. The first part to the project asked us to feel a square of white cotton and, using our senses, write down as many words as we could in just 5 minutes. These were to be wittled down to just 5 and mood boards made of all of them. I ended up choosing just 4 as i couldn't pick a 5th that i felt went with the others. These were my words -

Spring



Comfort



Youth



Purity



I have already made a 1st toile and nearly finished my second but i have no pictures so i'll upload them when i can as well as some sketches.

Apologies if anyone's pictures are in the above mood boards, i found them all on weheartit.com or google images! They are all beautiful but if you wish me to black them out i can do so!

Hello

I don't think there are actually any pictures of me on here so here you are. I started this blog just over a year ago and rarely actually posted on it. Well i am going to turn that around, this is me, you can call me Lulabelle. I study fashion design at university, i'm a first year and it's the best thing i have done in my life so far. I will be posting regularly on here about my life in fashion as well inspiration and reviews. I love a good chat also so feel free to comment!