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DESIGNING IDEAS FOR PATTERN CRAZY
In recent garment construction lessons we have been looking at beginning to design ideas for pattern crazy, in particular looking at the...
Louise Love
Jan 26, 20232 min read
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LOOKING AT PLANTS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
As part of my Pattern Crazy research, I have been continually exploring my theme of plant structures and, as part of this journey, I went...
Louise Love
Jan 26, 20231 min read
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MONO PRINTING IN TEXTILES
In recent textiles lessons we have been looking at creating some mono printing experiments based on our structure theme to then start to...
Louise Love
Jan 21, 20233 min read
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LOOKING AT TROUSER STYLES IN PATTERN CUTTING
In recent pattern cutting lessons we have been looking at different trouser styles and how to manipulate the trouser block to create...
Louise Love
Jan 21, 20233 min read
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VISITING WISLEY GARDENS
Last weekend I went to visit RHS Wisly Gardens to gather primary research and imagery to inspire my pattern crazy project on the theme of...
Louise Love
Jan 11, 20232 min read
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PATTERN CRAZY THEME
Since being back to college for the new term, we have been looking at our new Pattern Crazy brief on the theme of Structure and I have...
Louise Love
Jan 11, 20231 min read
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PATTERN EXHIBITION AT THE FASHION & TEXTILE MUSEUM
Last week we went up to the Fashion and Textiles museum in London to visit the Kaffee Fassett Power of Pattern exhibition to inspire our...
Louise Love
Dec 12, 20223 min read
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PORTFOLIO PROGRESS
In recent sessions I have been curating work towards my portfolio deadline... Wrapping Paper Page: For this page I really wanted to do...
Louise Love
Dec 2, 20222 min read
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WHITE ON WHITE TOILE DEVELOUPMENT
In recent garment construction sessions, I have been looking at creating the toile of my final chosen white-on-white design. The dress I...
Louise Love
Nov 23, 20222 min read
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DEVELOPMENT OF PORTFOLIO PAGES
In recent weeks I have been putting together more and more of my portfolio pages to work towards the December deadline. In this blog post...
Louise Love
Nov 20, 20222 min read
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COMPLETED WHITE SHIRT
Over the last two weeks we have been working on our white shirt project that was fully completed in just over two hours! We had the...
Louise Love
Nov 9, 20222 min read
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WHITE SHIRT PROJECT
In recent garment construction lessons with Lareen we have been looking at creating a white shirt combining skills learned throughout...
Louise Love
Nov 2, 20222 min read
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Theatre Craft Event
Last Tuesday (25/10/22) I went up to the Royal Opera House in London to visit the Theatre Craft event, all about careers in costume and...
Louise Love
Oct 31, 20225 min read
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AFRICA FASHION EXHIBIT AT THE V&A
Last Friday (21/10/22) we went on a trip with college up to the V&A in London to look at the Africa Fashion exhibition. In our spare...
Louise Love
Oct 23, 20222 min read
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VISITING ARTS UNIVERSITY BOURNEMOUTH
Last Saturday I attended an open day at university of the arts Bournemouth to look at their costume course. In this blog post I wanted...
Louise Love
Oct 14, 20222 min read
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MAKING MY FIRST PORTFOLIO PAGE
Since the start of second year, we have begun to look at creating a portfolio to support university applications. For my first page, I...
Louise Love
Oct 7, 20221 min read
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WHITE ON WHITE EXPERIMENTATION
In today's textiles lesson we looked at different ways in which we could manipulate both paper and fabric. - Each of us students had to...
Louise Love
Oct 7, 20222 min read
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FABRIC MANIPULATION - TUCKS
In recent textiles lessons we have been looking at fabric manipulation techniques as part of the white-on-white project. This week we...
Louise Love
Sep 28, 20222 min read
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Creating Sleeves in Pattern Cutting
In recent pattern cutting lessons with Lareen, we have been looking at how to create different sleeve styles such as puff sleeves, set-in...
Louise Love
Sep 26, 20222 min read
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MAKING PAPER GARMENTS
In recent textiles lessons we have been looking at creating garments out of only paper resorces!! We had access to a range of different...
Louise Love
Sep 20, 20223 min read
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