Thursday, 15 July 2010

A new workspace and some new work

Seeing as the small studio space we have downstairs is filled to the brim with my mothers junk, and my brother has left us for a year to live a luxurious travelling lifestyle, I took it upon myself to turn his bedroom into a new workspace, just for me. Its a decent sized space, and the only problem I have had to overcome so far is the lack of cutting surface, this was re arranged when I had the brilliant idea of covering his bed with a piece of wood (a temporary measure, but it works).



I even filled it with all my stuff from my FMP exhibition. It makes the room a bit more inspiring. The lack of a full time job gave me the opportunity to organise everything in the room as well. Fabrics are bagged and labelled for convenience; pens, pins and threads are displayed for easy access, even magazines have been carefully stacked in a suitcase, just so I know where everything is.



A long with this new work space comes new work. My project at the moment is for YEAH mag, and although I have not yet completed all of my designs, I decided it would be beneficial to start with the construction of something I am absolutely certain. My Coat.

The illustration is not 100% finished (I need to run it through Photoshop to adjust the colours) but you get the idea. Oh and just in case your wondering what's wrong with her legs?, the other garment in this look is lace leggings. Lace is hard to draw with a Sharpie. She hasn't got a rash.



So I started with a toile, I'm quite happy with it, although the bat wing sleeve needs some work. And I need to alter the sizing, which would be so much easier if I had a real adjustable dressmakers dummy. Pinning things to yourself is hard. If anyone knows of somewhere I could get one for cheap, or even better, for free, please put me in contact.

Other than that, there's not much to report. I'm working on a brand name at the moment. And hopefully, when I've settled on one, I'll get some labels made up. And care labels, and some ribbon, maybe some swing tags and bags, even leather embossed labels...

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