The Clothes Show was as good as ever this year, the catwalk was especially amazing! This years theme was after hours in a department store, whilst having the normal Womanswear, Menswear sections, there was also Accessories, Bridal and Street wear. With brilliant preformances from the dancers and models, here's a few pictures I took of the clothes:
I especially like the second dress in from the left in this picture because my current project at college is all about pegs and the way the material has been layered on this dress looks almost like layers of halves of pegs floating down.
While I was there with my mum, we sat down in front of the small stage in the middle of the room doing experimentations on the sewing machines. The guy presenting it asked for a voulenteer, so naturally my mum voulenteers me as I have a mouth full of pasta. Whilst I was up on stage voulenteering, I was taught how easy it is to embroid on a sewing machine, once you get the hang of it! This pictures of what I created, it was meant to be a peacocks feather but I didn't get time to finish it, not bad for my first attempt!
I love to look round the college section every year to see all the work that students have done and what the colleges offer, although its always a shame that there isn't enough work on show to look at becasue its hard to get a feel for the universities. Whilst I was wondering around we found this organisation called Craftspace Collective, where they go out and create DIY craft in public spaces so everyone can admire what they do. Unfortunatly their based in Birmingham but I will deffinatly be following there blog: http://www.craftspacecollective.wordpress.com/ to keep up to date! While I was there, I was taught how to cut an old t-shirt up so that you get about 10 meters of fabric, then I knotted it around the metal frame like a spider web. When I went back later, the front of the stand was almost compleatly covered in millions of spider webs, it looked very cool!
