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Thursday, June 15, 2006
Second Quarter Ends!
After another sleepless week, there are my final two skirts for my pattern class. I didn't have time to hem them, good thing they're for patternmaking class and not for sewing. I've discovered my love for skirts and not pants. They were fun to make and honestly they look better in person, maybe i'll have Olivia model them for me and post those later. Now I eagerly wait for my grades. Since my mom left for Hong Kong this quarter, I could not have done it without Bob, Uncle & Auntie 3, Uncle Ed & Auntie Carol (+ shi boys), Theon, Olivia, Stan, Kris & Kim, Michelle, Eric & Gabe (go movie club!)... hope i'm not missing anyone. They were always ready to take Noah so I could work or take the night off, or simply keep me company. You might think it's not a big deal, but it really makes a big difference. Noah sure is entertaining, but the adult company is much appreciated.Without further babbling about my child, here are the two skirts! Patternmaking III here I come!
front back
Thursday, March 23, 2006
First Quarter Review
Today was Portfolio day, graduates display their work for potential employers and other staff and students. It was, to say the least, intimidating. There was one girl who's work was just stunning. Part of me wonder if I can pull it off - being a student and a mom. While they tell you your classmates are your competition, i don't ever think i am that type of cutthroat competitor. But I'm already feeling like i'm slacking because I cannot pour as many hours into my work as others can. My family has to come first. I guess I am feeling overwhelmed.I'm very glad i've found something i'm passionate about, i guess it's really consuming a lot of my energy and i want to make sure that Bob and Noah gets my attention and care first and foremost. I must say i'm really glad that I have Bob, who cares and tries so hard for me to persue this. He stayed up with me every day this whole week to help me finish up my final projects - a skirt, a top and my boards. He did all my buttonholes and two of my buttons. What a sweet husband, huh?I'm also glad i've found two really supportive and awesome friends - Emily and Omar who always help me out whenever I need it. Not to mention picking up my supplies that I leave behind each class - i seem to be holding the record of at least one item per day. My patterndrafting final top was a disaster, nothing turned out the way i intended it. The fabric I chose to work with did not agree with me unfortunately. But it's ok, i got it done, it's graded, not my best work in the class, but i spent so many hours on it, I could not have done better, so i will not complain.My sewing final skirt turned out alright, made a little mistake on the waistband, but my teacher liked it and decided to display it nonetheless. Anyway, today I felt like I could breathe again, all my finals are over and I can sleep and relax and not do much. Bob and my mom took care of Noah so I could go with Emily and Omar to Nordstrom's downtown to meet BCBG's Max Azria!! So excited, his collection and style is amazingly beautiful, we looked at the seams and sewing up close - it was excellent. (My mom's and my dress from the Alaska Cruise was from his line!) We were such big dorks, we went up to Max and said we were design students and he smiled and was really polite and seemed like a really nice guy. He signed his spring line catalogue for us and took pictures with us! Yay us. He also asked me if my name was Greek :) Enjoy pictures!
Meeting Max Azria at Nordstrom!
Being completely normal people at Pike Place Market and Downtown Seattle. Piroshky Piroshky was delicious.
Me, Omar and Emily posing next to our skirts that got displayed. Ahh, such silly first quarter students...
Their beautiful tops that also got displayed! Yay!Second quarter, here we come!
Friday, February 03, 2006
Project Runway - episode 9
it's inevitable - a post on project runway...I must say it's now my favourite show! it's like the apprentice - fashion style.i want to post reviews and critiques of each episode, but i never have time and i'm still haven't seen the first two episodes - they keep playing it during class time. This week, they had to create a garden dress with only supplies from gardening and florists stores (so leaves and flowers and such). that was super hard and a good episode.here are my favourite three:
Daniel V never disappoints, and this episode his dress stood out far above anyone else's. He did the dress with such gorgeous flowers and colours. Nobody else seemed to want to use flowers, but he did it beautifully. He also made the leaves shine without adding the plasticky look (which Santino did). The basket weave waist band was so good too.Chloe is always one of my favourite consistent ones. She never gets picked on with the lowest scores, and she always gets by to the next round (duh, she's still here). I think the judges should give her more credit. She always thinks about her target customer, she is practical with what could be done in such a short time and it's always look so finished and lovely. This week, she won me over by (1) putting on SOO many leaves on her dress and finishing, (2) she made the dress look like fabric (which nobody could do). I love Chloe.Kara really surprised me this week - she hasn't impressed me much so far. Her design was more intricate and prettier than Chloe's, and i especially loved the back (which isn't shown here). BUT i disliked the mossy skirt. Moss just doesn't look pretty to me. Wait for more reviews!
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
more school
My patterndrafting class is hard, but i'm doing better than i thought - which is a relief. The pace of that class is lightning speed and i spend by far the most time doing homework for that class. But learning how to alter the patterns is neat. As for my design class - this is my second design project. Transforming an organic pattern into geometric pattern (you can see it better when you click on the picture). This was rather rushed, since we have been travelling back and forth from Canada. Midterms are next week. Goodness, i haven't had a midterm in 4 years.School is cool.
Saturday, January 28, 2006
My precious...
You know how when you spend lots of time of a project, you feel especially attached to it? Well, i feel that way every week and on all my projects, even though they're not an actual garment yet or anything close - everytime i look at it (despite imperfections), i see the long hours of work, the redoing and rethinking of ideas, and i get so happy.Here's my first colour board - it's a colour concept for an imaginary line that I thought up - D'anjou (shortened form for "Beurre D'anjou" Pears, aka Anjou Pears - kudos for bob the hubster for thinking up this clever name - it scored me creativity points!). It's a maternity bridal/special occasion line for Summer 2007. Pears because pregnant women are shaped like pears. anyway, it's nothing special, but it really took a long time to make. Enjoy.I also went to a Art Institute / Zebraclub Fashion Competition hosted by IconInk in Seattle. It was really neat to see all the designers compete, and the girl that won was the one that i really liked! Hooray for her. It was good to see what was to be expected so I can maybe enter next year! heehee. I get so excited for class. i love it.
Friday, January 13, 2006
Tired, but good
So far, no major injuries. I did poke my finger with a pin and bled a little. So I took the tomato that Noah ripped off his stuffed monkey as a pin cushion. Some of my supplies are ridiculously expensive (i.e. $70 for fabric scissors). But who knew I could get so excited about stationery? I was up late packing up my bags for school on monday night and i could barely sleep since I was looking forward to school. I knew I had to catch some winks before i wake up at 5 because I had to catch the bus at 6. I was so sleepy and the walk to school was so rainy and windy, my humungous porftolio bag (along with all my goodies) were flapping up and down my side. The walk to school was pretty creepy at 6 in the morning. My first class was Basic Patterndrafting. I had a hard time at the last 30 minutes trying to learn dart manipulation. I left school very discouraged because this was only my first day. Bob picked me up from school and told me we were going to Canada. I thought he was joking, but he wasn't. We were going to celebrate his dad's birthday. Cindy helped me with my homework, but i still wasn't sure what exactly i had to turn in.The next day i had Design for Apparel. I loved it. The teacher was striaght forward, realistic, wasn't going to sugar coat anything. One of my assignments was to grab a lot of colour swatches from paint/home improvement stores. My teacher said you might be shy at first, but once you realize how useful they are, you would just waltz in and grab them without shame. (so if anyone ever go into one, grab some for me, thanks). During class, someone mentioned what a hard time they were having in Patterndrafting to this new teacher. A minute later, 20 people had the same problem. I was relieved that I wasn't the only lost one out there.Yesterday I had Industrial Sewing, you would not believe how fast these machines go, and how much noise they make when 20 of them are running together at the same time. It was fun, and i finally got better at doing straight lines at the end of this week. Not perfect, but better.I was a little shy at the beginning, i felt old since most of my classmates were fresh out of high school, and i've always had this impression of designers (or fashion students) where they have very strong personalities. (Isn't it funny that the fear of not making friends in school still exists after all these years ... i've always thought this fear was very "high-school") But everyone warmed up to each other at the end of the week, and we swamped phone numbers and got together for a tutoring session on patterndrafting. I am now no longer so lost and have to get back to my loads of homework.My schedule is now pretty tough on Noah and Bob. I feel bad every time I have to leave Noah, when I get home, he gets more anxious each time I leave the room. Maybe he's getting older and understanding more, but i don't know. sometimes i feel awfully guilty. Bob's schedule is now also busier because of me. And this is only the first week...I am having a lot of fun and learning a lot of new things and i cannot gush enough about how awesome it is. Now I have to balance all the other important things in my life while persuing this passion of mine.
Monday, January 09, 2006
School Starts Tomorrow!
need i say more? my heart beats fast everytime i think about it. the things that i will learn and come to love. i am however so nervous about everything at the same time. will noah cope with my new hectic schedule? will the waiting list be long for daycare? will i do well? where will all this lead to?
i know i should not worry so!
this is a strange feeling of excitment, nervousness and uncertainty and i feel like i'm going to explode before tomorrow even begins.
- e . u . n . i . c . e
- this is a little peek into my journey in fashion design
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