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115cm matters
Last night I attended a sewing lesson which has been my first in over twenty years. John was teaching the class how to draft a pattern from Winifred’s pattern book and so I had my measurements taken, these were the full works and I don’t ever remember having these measurements taken before. When I did my BTEC Fashion in my pattern cutting class at the time we did use the same book to make a standard size 12 block, then we were given standard size 12 blocks for all the blocks we needed, bodice, skirt, trousers, sleeve and a coat. I felt my brain had become a bit muddled with…
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Memories of my day on set
These are images of my day, I had to get my outfit signed off on Friday before the Monday, lunch was provided, image of a lipliner and Lauren’s and my feet and my embroidery that I took. I am learning a new technique called silk shading that I may want to use in customising the jeans jackets with embroidery designs.
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A Fun Day on Set
Lauren the makeup artist for the day, asked me to sit in her chair so she could touch up any makeup, she was an absolute dream and easy to talk with to understand a little about the industry. Working on set can be tiring as the days are long from early mornings to late nights. Today I had the opportunity to be interviewed and be an extra on the set at St Luke’s Panty in Chandler Way. Big Zuu has been invited by the Coop to spearhead their Christmas campaign for social media. Normally would spend millions on an advert for Christmas, but with the cost of living crisis that…
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Samines shop in Etsy
It’s been a while since I have the Samines shop activated on Etsy. I decided to move over to Folksy as this is the UK equivalent to Etsy that is based in America. I have been slack and have let many things go and I know I will have to sort the Samines shop out on Folksy, I just have not kept up with my online presence and as a result I have not grown. So this is my renewed listing of one of the table runners, maybe I need to name those, especially when I post on social media to link everything.
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August Bank Holiday
Continual strength and stamina in my body and improvement of my wrist as well as my ankle and feet. This morning I went swimming and walked from home which took about 25 minutes. I am quite thrilled with myself as I managed to push up onto the ledge with my body weight onto my hands and get myself out of the pool, this is the first time I have managed to do this since swimming in this pool, as there is no ladder going in and I have to crouch down to get onto my bottom and then swing my legs into the pool, it is quite a sight. Around…
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Flower making workshop
I had the opportunity to attend Lora Avedian’s workshop with Blackheath Embroiderers in June, she showed us her techniques of how she makes her flowers. It was a great exposure to a different technique that does require a smocking machine and if you didn’t have a machine, (they can cost about £200) then you can hand smock and would take a lot longer. I remember trying a smocking machine when studying for my City & Guilds Embroidery, I didn’t take to it.
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Embroidery Diploma Grade
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Fashion and Textile Museum
On Wednesday 29th June I had the opportunity to go to the Fashion and Textile museum for a meeting and one of the perks was to be able to visit the RSN exhibition. I visited this exhibition at the beginning of June when we celebrated the Queens Jubilee, this time I had the opportunity to attend the talk and hearing a little bit more of each piece and the development of the RSN, it’s the 150 years anniversary of the school. One of my objectives for the day was to buy either the crewel work or silk shading book authored by the Royal School of Needlework and I settled upon…
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Mindful Stitching
A couple of Mondays ago I went to Kew Gardens for my birthday, it was the first time on my own as I normally meet up with various peeps during the day, although I did have birthday celebrations in the pub later on. I was a bit emotional during the morning and so I never registered that it was going to be a heavily rainy day, to the point I had to draw and later stitch in the orangey, it was very noisy with lots of families taking shelter. As I was so engrossed in copying from a colouring book in developing designs I never saw the sea of faces…
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Design Development
Last Monday I went to Kew Gardens for my birthday, it was the first time on my own as I normally meet up with various peeps during the day, although I did have birthday celebrations in the pub later on. I was a bit emotional during the morning and so I never registered that it was going to be a heavily rainy day, to the point I had to draw in the orangey, it was very noisy with lots of families taking shelter. As I was so engrossed in copying from a colouring book in developing designs I never saw the sea of faces asking me for chairs, I did…
Revealed Beauty