another saturday in the studio.

Its down to the last week and a half of the winter semester, so it is no surprise that the majority of my time is being spent in the fashion studio. Today I worked on both my dress for Fashion Draping and my final lace project for Intermediate Fiber, Fabric, Fashion (FFF).

I am almost finished the top of my dress. I just have a few little things to do. Tomorrow I hope to get the top completely finished and move on to the the skirt of the dress.

For my final project for Intermediate FFF I am creating my own 'lace' using a material called Solvy. You can sew onto this material using a sewing machine and then it dissolves with water, leaving behind the stitching. So I have been sewing away on this material creating these lace pieces that will be stitched together by hand to become a garment that mimics traditional armor. I liked the idea and irony of this delicate material being used to represent protective armor. Well that is the plan, but I find my initial ideas for the projects in this class always drastically change throughout the production stage. So we'll see what happens!

It takes about 30 minutes to complete each on of these lace pieces. I have already done 15. I'm going to try and do a bunch more tomorrow and then start piecing them together. Hopefully I will have made enough. I may have to incorporate fabric in order to complete the project, but I hope to be able to use only these lace pieces.