jeepers

to my dear 17 metres of silk satin - please please please make sure you return from sydney perfectly bias cut at 6cm, right side up and neatly placed on the roll for me to then sew onto my finale dress. please be on time please dont be damaged and please be how i expect you to be.... i cant do anything else to the dress until you arrive and the fittings for you and all our garments are on thursday - thanks!

valentino

found this amazing picture online.... it inspires me to work harder faster better stronger!!! :-P

hmm

so mark and i were sitting at dinner just before..... thai orchid down at henley!!! so good it makes me want to jump and dance!!!

mark remarked (no pun) that i seem to be incredibally calm given we finish in less than four weeks and i still have my big finale dress to do... plus about a million and one other things like buttons finishes pressing tags carelabels swing tickets etc etc.... and ive come home thinking.... well yeah i probably should be starting to sweat a little!!!

so this is my arghhh post.... 3 and a half weeks out and still a heck of a lot of stuff to finish!!!! but never fear, unlike my normal self whereby i do usually leave most things till the last minute - i have been unusually prepared in this instance..... so i say that tomorrow being a new day i will get up early, make a coffee, maybe go to the morning yoga class and get a good running start on my finale dress!!! if i can get up to the toile cutting stage by lunch time i will be a happy man!!!!

i have a bunch of photos from my camera to upload onto here but i think i will do that in a day or so!!!!

ive spent the last few days letting my fingers recover from multiple needle stabs!!!!! sewing needles (just thought i would add that) so i feel like im ready to jump back in!!!!

right!!!!! i
ill do it! :-P

and so it is

4 weeks to go till graduation....

ive lost my i phone sadly so i will take some pictures with a regular camera to upload on to my blog...

im doing pretty well it seems.... all garments are either finished or on their way to being finished except for my big finale dress... which i havent start yet!!! eeep

starting tomorrow i will work on that and keep going on the finishing of other garments, a button here a bagged out seam there...

everyone in the class seems to be fairly calm yet... it will be interesting to see how it goes in the following weeks...

oh and had my photo shoot the other day with the results being a complete success... thankyou so much to rebecca lawrence for your fine modelling efforts and to the wonderful megan mackenzie for your excellent photography!

hooray!!!!

i need another coffee.....

goodness

goodness
well about 6 weeks to go till we graduate!

i think im fairing up pretty well.... i think this kind of work is a bit like a steam train.... takes a little while to get moving but once its on the run it doesnt take time to build momentum and then your steaming right along at the speed of ... well a steam train going really fast i guess :-)

So far i have completed almost 3 outfits in full.... another two i have finished patterns on and toiled up... cutting those out thismorning... then its on to the big finale dress!

this the one which i expect to take some time with... lots of circular silk frills, gems, beads, draping... the whole shibang!!!

the 6th of november isnt far away at all!!!

well thats it for my update... been up since 6am cutting out my pants, now off to school to keep cutting two more tops out then its sew sew sew for a few days!

tafe open day

went to Tafe open day today - a sunday - ten marks for effort i say!

was fun with ally and najree in the house - made some excellent progress with my jacket - got sleeves in and looks tremendous!

attended parade out in the foyer - was chuffed my swimwear was selected to be a part of the parade.

those finesse models are excellent - love their ways!

have had some great ideas tonight about my collection and its eventual fruition and thus cant sleep as a result!!!