3rd year internal show
For the past 2 weeks I have been very busy helping out at
the 3rd year’s preparation for their internal show. I was assigned a
3rd year to help she was very organised and didn’t really require
much help. I went and ordered some shoes for her collection from Zara. Once this
was complete she didn’t need me to do anything else. So I decided since I was
free to see what other 3rd years required in the way of help and I’m
so glad I did. I went into the knit workshop as this is the specialism I would
like to go into and is something that really excites me. For the first day I
was doing odd jobs for all three of the 3rd years doing knit and helping
with fittings. I became Mars Sasu helper her collection was inspired by
geometric shapes and involved knitting and embroidery.
For the first few days of helping Mars I was knitting triangle
sections on the knitting machines which would be used as a panel on her coat. It
was a little while since I had been on a knitting machine but once I started it
all came flooding back and at the end of the day I had knitted 40 triangle
sections. I really liked the texture the triangles created for the panel of the
coat and the contrast of colours.
I also helped Mars with the embellishment of her coat panels
I really liked the idea for the coat as it looked like graph paper and with the
triangles it really reflected Mars theme of geometry. The fabric was sprayed white
which gave the fabric added thickness as the fabric was original silver it took
a few coats to give it a good coverage. I then sewed the triangles on top of
the fabric due to the large squares in the fabric I thought it was going to be pretty
straight forward, however, I found it hard to create different shaped triangles
as I ended up creating mainly right angles. I also sewed some triangles on a
panel of her tops this was difficult as the fabric was Aida and had smaller
squares then the coat and the yarns were slightly too thick to go through the
holes so I had to be really careful.
To continue the geometry theme Mars wanted us to embellish socks
with triangles which would go over her shoes to add detail and complete the
look.
I also helped Mars construct her garments I helped to sew up
the dress and complete the coat. I also helped with some hand sewing to finish
of her garments.
Helping Mars complete her final collection and seeing how
she used knit in her collection and how she used different yarns to create
different textures was big learning curve. The whole experience has been very
helpful and interesting as being in the
knit room allowed me to see how all the 3rd years in knit handled
and placed knit into their collections and each collection is so different it
just highlights the possibilities that can be done with knit. Helping Mars just
reconfirms that knit is what I really want to explore and is something I would
like to push and specialise. The whole process shows how organised you have to
be in 3rd year to make sure you get your collections completed and
showed what to do and what not to do
I was so glad I was able to be involved this experience I
was unsure about helping out at the beginning but feel the skills I have learned,
experience gained and general team work are invaluable to draw on for the
future.
frankie ruth
