Mon 12^th – Fri 16^th March, 2018

     Recently I feel as though I have been slightly neglecting textiles in favour of learning how fashion works and the new elements of fashion to learn. Although this has been highly enjoyable and I plan on carrying these new skills with me in the future, I wanted to come back to working how I know by solely thinking about textile design and my weaving. Since weaving needs so much attention before the sampling can even start I began the week by planning my warp and how I can best represent the research my group has conducted within it. With a warp being such a permanent thing I struggled with how I might incorporate our 2 main areas; school uniform and military uniform. Hopefully with the help of my group I can make an informed decision that best suits where our research and designing is headed.

                As a group we compiled our current samples together to drape them on the stand. This was highly informative for me to see how fashion works and where their ideas come from. It was also very useful to see if our samples worked together and showed where our ideas have come from. I was very pleased with the outcome of all areas and think we have managed to sample together well as a team. It is vital that even at these early stages everything coordinates. Our next step from here would be to refine our samples and give them a higher end aesthetic and consider how they would fit into developed garment designs.

                The workshops have been very useful to me, coming from textiles. With fashion being quite alien, learning an entirely new way of working in a few weeks has been challenging – however the workshops on garment design have been highly insightful. From these workshops I am now aware of all the different areas of a garment I need to focus on and what to look for/pick out of my research in order to inform those decisions. In addition to this I feel more confident in drawing those garments and how they can be adapted to work as a collection.