Shoes!

With the fashion show coming up really soon our items for the Art Gallery are due this coming Friday. I chose to enter my drawing I did last semester in art class. It's really neat and colorful. Along with this I've been working on taking a pair of simple blue heels and making them look fabulous. Check out the original pictures on my previous post Decorating Shoes. 

So far I have taken pink glitter spray and have done a few layers making the blue almost purple in some areas. And now today I have finished adding the white and pale pink pearl beads on the heels. I haven't decided what else I want to do. I don't want to overdo them by adding too much but at the same time I feel like they're missing something. Some of my ideas are adding pink bows (or blue) to the back above the beaded heels. Another is to make little ribbon straps with the beads on them in the front. I am also thinking of doing detailing in a different, brighter, pink glitter by using a pen to make the details and then glue and glitter. Too many ideas! For now I'm going to put them to the side and just not think about them until Thursday. Then, under pressure decide what I should do or shouldn't do to the shoes. 

Hopefully this will all work out and I can post about an amazing pair of heels that will be sitting in the art gallery at the fashion show. 

Remember When...

Over winter break I posted about how I was getting back into Project Runway but then I sort of just stopped watching it. Well...I have started watching it again! I am on episode 12 of season 9. I have to say I have some favorites, however the person who I wanted to win has been eliminated. I am really looking forward to the final 2 episodes though. I love getting a behind the scenes type look at Fashion Week and I like how they film the designers during their work period. It's neat to see how other designers go about their work and how they take inspiration and turn it into their final product now that they're given a lot more than a day or two to create a few looks. As we get closer to Purdue's fashion show it's nice to see something that is completely different because the scale of Purdue's one day 2 shows pales in comparison to NYC's Fashion Week. Someday maybe you'll see me there but for now I'm still learning as much as possible!

A Special Day

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

I myself will be having a blast with my friend Hale tonight, spending some quality friendship time together. As for a date night, I wish I could have a spectacular and romantic evening but nope. For just a girls' night I will be wearing my typical skinny jeans, boots (or gold flats depending on if we get snow or not), and a cute top with sweater. So nothing too fancy or flashy. If I was going on a date with my boyfriend I'd be wearing a cute black and white cheetah print dress I bought from Express and wore for New Year's Eve. That dress paired with cute floral black lace tights and my black heeled ankle boots, I think it'd be perfect!

Oh well, next year I will (hopefully) get to dress all up and do my hair and makeup (which I never do).

Red Dress Event

The dress on Jessica before
hair and makeup.

Yesterday evening was the Red Dress Event at Purdue. It was run by Pharmacy students and they had asked us to put on a little fashion show featuring red dresses/garments. I was stressed because I wanted to participate but I thought my dress for the spring sow didn't count as red, however, my professor said it counted! This past Wednesday we had a snow day and I went in to the lab and worked for about 7/8 hours before the only thing left was hemming the dress. Another problem I had was my model or the show, Gabby, was planning on going home so I needed someone who could wear the dress. My friend Jessica Cork said she'd be willing to try the dress on and was willing to walk in the show. Well the dress fit, obviously not the same as it will on Gabby since Jessica is at least 5 inches taller than Gabby. The darts also aren't perfect, but it worked! It was a fun time getting Jessica ready, she did her makeup and I curled her hair. I was going for a very classy, slightly Parisian inspired look. I think we succeeded. 

Me and Jessica at the event.

Jessica walking during the show.

Jessica staying classy.

Perfect Plaid Pants

I've been working these past couple weeks on making a pair of pants for my guy model, Eric. In class I drafted a pattern and then made the muslin pants, then adjusted my drafted pattern and from that made a sloper and final patterns from the sloper. After some exercises in class I decided I wanted to lower the waistline a few inches and then not add pockets or anything too fancy. I want the focus to be on the vest, which I haven't really started besides having some patterns for it.

Just a little off, so redo.

After all of this I needed to start working with my fashion fabric, so I had to cut everything out. Easier said than done int his case. I had to line every horizontal line up on both the front and back with the notches being on the same lines. Then I had to make sure that the middle of the front and back had the same vertical line. I did a lot of double and triple checking. Then had to cut the 2 pieces out again and then the other pieces like the fly shield and extension- also lining those up with the front leg pieces they'd be sewn on to. I spent my 3 hour long class on Thursday cutting out all the pieces. then I attempted to sew the outer seams...not my best work. I had to seam rip my work and re pin it and try again. I just wanted everything to line up perfectly but no luck on my second try. My boss, Joan, suggested I use a walking foot to help keep the fabric in place with my pins. Best advice ever, they are looking great!

I spent a majority of yesterday working on them. So far I have the outer seams, and am almost done attaching the zipper and finishing that whole front crotch area. After I'm done with that I have the inseam and back crotch to sew shut, then just the waistband and hemming the bottom. I meet with Eric Monday morning so he can try the pants on and I can see how much I need to hem and I also need pictures to turn in with everything else for the pants (they're due Monday at 5pm). It's taken a lot of hard work and time but I am really loving how they're turning out. I can't wait until I make the shirt and vest and everything just comes together. The t-shirt is a grey jersey and the vest will be black with thin white vertical stripes and the back will be the same fabric as Gabby's dress. Also, I plan on trying to see if I have enough plaid left to make a dress for the day of the show for me. I can make a detachable collar out of scraps from Gabby's dress and use the same ribbon to tie it so my ensemble would match my models' and the pictures would be so great!

Look at those perfect horizontal lines!