Ta Da!

I lost a nail in the process but today I've finished.

Here is the final result of my blood, sweat and tears.

This is on Jane tall and skinny.


And this is on Elle short and sweet.




Woollen Mermaids. The End.

Final Days

I have researched. I have sketched. I have designed. I have draped. I have toilled. I have pattern made. I have toilled again. I have cut. Now I am making.

We're into our last few days of the brief and I'm doing ok for time. Not as well as some others but ok.

There's been a bit of a problem with some of our machines (or lack thereof) at school, but show them a bit of R.E.S.P.E.C.T. (y'all know what I'm sayin Aretha?) and they'll give you some sugar back.

I'm also having a bit of problems with the computer.

So I called this guy.




Only joking. I just think this is a really nice photo of my dad.

Okay. Now I'm really joking.

Now for some photos that may have actual relevance to this blog.

Golden Oldie

Sew it seams (pun) i've decided on my design.

My inspiration.



Nautical fringed shoulder pads. Annette Kellerman had a deep love for the ocean, so that's where the naval influence has come from. Goldie Hawn in overboard just because she's fabulous and I watched that movie last night.




"The man who has not given himself completely to the sun and wind and cold sting of the waves will never know all the meanings of life. I still wait to see my first real mermaid sitting on a damp grey rock combing her long green hair."
-Annette Kellerman

I've started draping a toille on my dummy. it's going pretty smoothly, but there's not much you can stuff up when you're just placing, pulling and pinning.

starting the design process

So we've just got back to school after what seams like a week of holidays (it was actually more like 7 i think) and we've been given a brief with 2 weeks to complete. 8 lessons. 48 hours. I don't even know how to sew with knit fabrics. But i'm really interested in bathers so this should be good.

First of all we learn. We make ill fitting leotards out of poo brown marle that the kids at a certain apparel store would lose their quarters for. But the learning process has worked and know we all know how to bind, coverstitch, elasticise and overlock our knit fabric.

After reading all the new magazines in the library that came in over the holidays, I'm ready to start the design process. It's one piece and it's black. Sweet. There's 2 things i don't have to think about. I'm thinking shoulder pads and I'm sure most people are as well because they're pretty happenin.