i still need a TItle but this is my MANIFESTO of creative moulding and critical weathering

 

 

+++ critical weathering

mittelmoda, here i come!

this is why i spend +than 10 hours at the knitting lab!

just wanted to share some progress with you...

Ive been knitting the "REAL" pieces... 

AND spending TTOOOO much time at the "dungeon" (aka: knit lab)

(there are no windows down there, and its like a VORTEX)

at least I'm happy with the results and- my teacher said im knitting "a masterpiece"

♥♥♥

look2/proto#2

Ladies and gentelmen.. on this rainy rainy night in NYC... 

I introduce to you PROTO #2 x look 2 of my thesis project.

I finally finished draping it, the back part was difficult to figure out because I had too many ideas running through my head!

Putting it on pattern and re-sewing it felt good, now its like I am working with a blank canvas

- I can transform it!-

wee!

i also had fun taking pictures of it!

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look1/edited proto

perfecting a prototype is a LONG process. next monday we have a meeting with our critic: Reiko Weiss from theory. and a model fitting. 

here is an update:

this is the top back of the proto the night before class/we had a "deadline" of 1 finished drape the next morning!

 and this is what happens in class:

professor tells me to slightly move my princess line, for a more "flattering" effect

on the picture at right, you get an idea of what the real fabric will look like!

sleevedetail. will have elastic

 this is super exciting. 

I changed the back a bit, and continued with the felted roots back thing... 

its"growing"on me!

look1/proto#2

 sunday afternoon at the LAB, sewing and modifying my second prototype for look 1. 

I made the pattern from the 1st drape, modified some things and cut it out of new cotton knit fabric...

 I thought perhaps it could give me a better idea of how the realpiece would look/feel.

 The "minisleeve" took me forever, and I am still not convinced- but today I have a meeting with my prof, and i needed to moove on. So here is it THUS FAR:

                

prototyping II

This past wednesday I was still off from my internship because my boss was still in London presenting her line at Estetica. 

So...

 I went to the LAB to try and get a head start with the draping/patternmaking of my prototypes! I AM 80% done... I need to drape some sleeves and pattern my second look. well... thats maybe like 60%.. LOL!

here are some imgs of the back/side of  look #2.

                                   

have a good one!

swatch development

these are the newly developed swatches. more bubbles, this time KNIT with the yarn that I'm actually using for the garments... its 100% muesling free merino wool and a 100%organically grown cotton.

last night I watched about an hour and a half of "GONE WITH THE WIND" while I practiced my boullion knots. I used DMC "mouline special" in forest green, terracotta, and brown. I think it looked great just with the brown knots, but got carried away and kept going. Please remember these "fabrics" will not be white in the end.

this was my original attempt at DYING (with rit dyes just to test)... these are not made with the wool yarn, so the de-poof after traveling from/to school. THIS is why I'm in dying-crisis!