SCA Dress

No, not that SCA, I mean my Southern Cross Arcade dress. Here's a sneak preview of the dress, it's made of brushed poly-rayon jersey and will be worn with two kimono jackets and a voile underskirt. Because of the hip cowl, and shape of the skirt, it looks a lot better when it has legs inside.



Photo taken from the Fashion at TAFE SA facebook page.

Project Rundle

Last week we started 'Project Rundle', a Project Runway-esque assignment for which we were paired up and assigned one Rundle Mall side street and one Rundle Mall arcade. These become the inspiration behind an outfit to enter into a competition held by Rundle Mall to have our outfit on parade in March. The 9 runner-up outfits (all the rest) will also be on display but not on parade. Spotlight Rundle Mall is sponsoring the project by giving each team a $100 gift card, and the winning team a $500 gift card.

Being in Group 1, we were assigned Gawler Place and Southern Cross Arcade. My final design to toile up is inspired by Southern Cross Arcade, has four garments in it (including two jackets), and features both machine- and hand-embroidery. Obviously I thought I'd go down the easy route this time. Thanks to a fortuitously timed promotion, we saved $40 when spending $100 or more at Spotlight, and so managed to afford to make both Alyce's and my outfit. It's going to be a bit of a slog to finish both in a week, so I'll probably be spending quite a bit of 'overtime' in the workshop.

I'm really excited, I love both our outfits. Photos later!

Year Three

I start Third Year on Monday. It's a little exciting; I wasn't sure I'd get in. In that I mean I was quite positive but according to the rules of probability, there was a chance I'd be rejected.

I haven't updated since November because I haven't really done anything I want to showcase. My class worked on our Gilles St market project, which was a bit stressful (not even mentioning the ugly clothes), but my team was a lot of fun.

In the holidays I toiled up a pair of trousers for myself, and now I regret not overlocking the seams, because they look quite nice. Hopefully I'll have a nicer photo to show later, but here's one I took upon completion.

I expect I'll make a similar pair in a light cotton; the only problem is that I drew the pattern directly on to the fabric! What a chortle I had when I realised I'd have to unpick the entire toile to get the pattern from it (chortle means to commit self-harm, right?). At the moment they're made of what I can only describe as denim. It's not quite a drill, so I'm hesitant to label it at all. I still have metres of it though.



I imagine it will be a while before I can sew anything for myself again.