grandmothers/ Sofia Grace

grandmothers/ nans/ grams/ granny/ grandma/ ect... we all love our granny so much and yesterday i was reminded of that.

working in retail you can get to meet some really intresting people and you can find our some realy amazin storys weather it be why their out shopping or how amaizn their granchildren are. so yesterday when i had the grandmother of up and coming shoe desginer Sofia Grace come in to the store was deffintly one of thoughs intresting days and reminded me of how much i love my granmothers.


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clare copland visiting tutor sessions.

Clare Copland one of the enthusiastic people I ever meet, there’s not one person who she can not get enthusiastic by. She a very inspiring person if she can not inspire you then I really don’t know who can, well beside your self.


Here are a few photos on what we designed and marked. The first session we made was accessories. I put together a hat using a shower cap, doily, croshay part from a dress, fabric, a mask and some jems/stones. I put it together by laying the croshay part over the shower cap then gluing the mask on top. I created a fan with the doily and glued them to the back of the mask, after that I mad a flower out of fabric and created a head pieces from an old headband, I really disliked the it so I toke it apart and attached it to the mask as well as the jems.

my manipulations so so far

for it can not be done

So for me blogging can not be done every day maybe if i was to blog a few times a week will just be satisfactory. Over the last few weeks i have started my professional project, based on a live brief for fab frocks in westborne www.fabfrocks.co.uk designing for 18-25 and using fabric manipulation as my theme.

Starting with a book The Art of Manipulating Fabric by Colette Wolff. An amazing book with so many things to learn. I decided to work my way through the book chosen manipulation that i though would work best with my designs. So far i have manipulated fabric in to flowers, pleated fabric in different ways to achieve different looks. I intend on carrying these manipulation through out the project trying to achieve the best looks for my designs. i indend on uploading the photos as i go along so keep an eye out.

I have also start taken life drawing classes and where i hope to gain more skills and learn more about the proportions of the body to help me design and construct my garments. I will be uploading photos soon.

kirsty x