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We are a week into classes, and I'm excited. In my dresses class, the assignment (once you get to this level you have one main design for the semester plus fundamentals) is a day or party (not cocktail) dress for a 25-30 year old upscale modern woman who shops at Nordstroms and Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdales inspired by the 1960s, 70s, and/or 80s in pastel or white or beige tone-on-tone. I was afraid that I wouldn't like Ms Watson (yes, in the fashion department we are required to call all our professors Ms or Mr or Mrs or Doctor or Professor so-and-so) because I was told that she is the exact opposite of Ms Alford and I love Ms Alford and I understand the way she taught. But so far I really like Ms Watson, for draping at least. She's not afraid to come up and say here try this or you don't need all those pins, and she doesn't mind repeating things twelve times. The only issue is she's quiet, and sometimes, like when the fan is on, it can be nearly impossible to hear. But apparently I'm not the only one who has trouble because yesterday Jon insisted we turn the fan off and we all ask her again an again.
In my fibers class, I'm already learning to make felt! And we'll be weaving tapestry, learning to chemical dye (that sounds dangerous, I know, but it's actually more dangerous to use natural dyes), weaving, and learning 3D techniques such as coiling and twining (I don't actually know that those last two things mean yet). If there's time she'll also teach us to crochet and embroider. It's fun.
I love Ms Guthrie, and I'm glad she's teaching my tailoring class. Today we learned to pattern a fly front. Next week, when I learn to sew it up (we have Monday off for labor day so we don't have class again until Wednesday), I'll be able to make all sorts of things like jeans and other pants. I like the idea that Ms Guthrie wants us to think of the class as making samples, not finished products that could go in the store window. All our other classes expect it to be perfect - and that's not to say Ms Guthrie doesn't - but just that she expects it to be a learning process that changes every step of the way.
Illustration is scaring me. We're entering, as the class does every year, this fur contest. I have to have 60 sketches of ideas by next Wednesday. I have my inspiration done, but still very few ideas. I'm not against fur (and even if I was, if my design was chosen I could request it to be made from fake fur), I've just never given fur coats much thought. There's a few reason's I'm having problems with it - I don't know my fur. I know my fibers, I can tell you what material this dress should be made out of or how that fabric will fall on the body. But fur? Not a clue - I've done some research and I know what they look like and all that but how they feel and how the drape and sew and all that is something I like to know before I can design effectively. I found this great picture of Bonnie & Clyde though, that just makes ideas for jackets run through my head. Bonnie lookes like a woman who could pull off a fur in the middle of a weekday for no reason at all except she wants to.
And then there's my ethics class. Ethics is required by the university to graduate and I'm taking Global Ethics and World Religions. I figured it was going to be really boring and awful but I'd have to do it, but my professor seems really cool. He's funny and ADD. And the stuff we're talking about is interesting. At least, he makes it sound fascinating. And if he is making it sound interesting I bet it will be. We have to buy 5 books, but they are all around $5-10, so I guess it won't be too bad.
In my fibers class, I'm already learning to make felt! And we'll be weaving tapestry, learning to chemical dye (that sounds dangerous, I know, but it's actually more dangerous to use natural dyes), weaving, and learning 3D techniques such as coiling and twining (I don't actually know that those last two things mean yet). If there's time she'll also teach us to crochet and embroider. It's fun.
I love Ms Guthrie, and I'm glad she's teaching my tailoring class. Today we learned to pattern a fly front. Next week, when I learn to sew it up (we have Monday off for labor day so we don't have class again until Wednesday), I'll be able to make all sorts of things like jeans and other pants. I like the idea that Ms Guthrie wants us to think of the class as making samples, not finished products that could go in the store window. All our other classes expect it to be perfect - and that's not to say Ms Guthrie doesn't - but just that she expects it to be a learning process that changes every step of the way.
Illustration is scaring me. We're entering, as the class does every year, this fur contest. I have to have 60 sketches of ideas by next Wednesday. I have my inspiration done, but still very few ideas. I'm not against fur (and even if I was, if my design was chosen I could request it to be made from fake fur), I've just never given fur coats much thought. There's a few reason's I'm having problems with it - I don't know my fur. I know my fibers, I can tell you what material this dress should be made out of or how that fabric will fall on the body. But fur? Not a clue - I've done some research and I know what they look like and all that but how they feel and how the drape and sew and all that is something I like to know before I can design effectively. I found this great picture of Bonnie & Clyde though, that just makes ideas for jackets run through my head. Bonnie lookes like a woman who could pull off a fur in the middle of a weekday for no reason at all except she wants to.
And then there's my ethics class. Ethics is required by the university to graduate and I'm taking Global Ethics and World Religions. I figured it was going to be really boring and awful but I'd have to do it, but my professor seems really cool. He's funny and ADD. And the stuff we're talking about is interesting. At least, he makes it sound fascinating. And if he is making it sound interesting I bet it will be. We have to buy 5 books, but they are all around $5-10, so I guess it won't be too bad.