Vintage couture sewing techniques- day 1 and 2

Hi,

I hope everyone had a good day :) For the whole of this week I am on a sewing course learning about Vintage Couture (one off, personally fitted/tailored garments) Sewing Techniques! I have learnt so much already- and I still have three days left :0D

 

Day one we mainly talked about what vintage and couture actually mean and we looked inside and analysed a couture Givenchy jacket- It was so interesting to actually get to see all the inside construction and techniques involved (like secret padding to help improve the couture clients shape :P).

 

Then today we did samples of loads of different seams- curved, lapped, welted, square/corner, bound- I have done some of them before on a previous course I went on but this time I learnt how to do them the full, professional tailor couture way which was super cool- time consuming but with great results!

 

Here are some shots of my work in progress and finished pictures of a couple of the seams (I won't bore you with them all! :P):

 

This is the curved lapped one.

 

And this one is the special lapped corner one.

 

Hhehehe, I am already super excited for tomorrow which I think might be on decorative techniques. I will keep you all updated on what I get up to this week :D

 

See you soon,

 

Bye XXX

A special post

Hi everyone,

Today I have a bit of a different post for you all. My brother has asked me to do a special post today to help him with his PSHCE project about animal rights. Part of his project is to raise awareness so he wondered if I could mention it to all you lovely people :)

 

Some of the issues involved in animal rights are:

 

- Testing on animals

- Using animals for entertainment (In a badly treated forced kind of way)

- Using animal skins and furs for fashion

- Animals being treated badly as part of the food industry e.g. in intensive/battery farming

 

As many of you will know I sponsered a rescue turkey (called Lord Gobble Gooble :) and I have looked into some of the apalling conditions innocent animals have to survive in around the world. I am genuinely concerned about the issues above.

 

Many companies do try to avoid profiting to the detriment of animals by avoiding animal testing and treating any animals used in their processes well. For example; Lush, The Body Shop, The Co-op and many others are some of the well know producers of animal friendly toiletaries and cosmetics.

Yeo valley the Yoghurt manufacturers even provided comfy matresses in the cow sheds for their dairy cows to lay on! Now that is how it should be done! :P And there are soo many other fabulous companies that are also dedicated to animal rights- look out for them and please try to support them where you can :) Also try not to support any kind of animal entertainment which doesn't seem to be quite right.

 

PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals) have a lot more information about all of the issues above and more and also have many different ideas on how you can get involved in supporting animal rights: http://www.peta.org.uk/ and on many company websites you can find thier ethical policies too to check what they are doing to ensure animal rights.

 

Thank you very much for reading this special post, I have enjoyed posting about this important issue and my brother is very thankful to you all too, he has been working hard and really wanted to spread the issue further than just our school. He has also made a youtube video and would be very grateful if you could watch it: It is here! :)

See you all soon,

Bye :) xxxXxxxXxxX

It's My Birthday! XD

Hello guys!

Today is my birthday WOOOOO!!!! and It has been brilliant! :D My dad (as you will know if you have been a reader of my blog for a while) always makes me and my brother a special cake for our birthdays, and this year my dad really out-did himself! Look, everything is edible even the lid (which is made of rice crispy cake)! :P:

He combined my two fave things, knitting and cake!! :0)

It looks soo great and tastes just as good! The balls of wool are homemade chocolate chip muffins coated in icing :0P

My dad even made an icing replica of the little felt monster I made him XD He's yet to be eaten, Lol!

Today my other friends gave me a birthday present :D I got a giant Hello Kitty poster and these two cross stitch kits which will be soo fun to make:

They know me well :)

My family were also extremely generous with gifts too!

My brother made me a mini hamper with sweets, a hello kitty surprise egg and a cool purse in a really pretty box, the sweets and choccys are in the fridge now but here is the box and purse:

I love my little bro, and my new purse hehehe! <3

My nan and grandad got me lots of gifts including a couple of cross stitch kits, one of my aunties got me two funky pineapple dance tops and my other aunties got me some make up and bath stuff and £20.00 to spend in Miss Selfridge.

Here are some of the wonderful prezzies I got from my parents... : )

I can't wait to read the book about Lady Gaga's fashions, they facsinate me! ( I'm listening to the Born this way CD right now! :)



Do you think that's enough chocolate and sweets for one person? Mmmm :-P



Look at all these Hello kitty goodies! :3 Im going to put some of my crafty bits and bobs in the tin

I LOVE CROSS STITCH :)

WOOOO! These four cuties were on my b-day list!!!! They are Hannari tofu plushes, random and cute, perfect! I loooooovvveeee them! <3 <3 <3



This tin my dad got me I also really love, it has talking grain of rice on it, hehehaha, so random :-)

My parents as an extra gift are also paying for me to start taking driving lessons, my first one is in two weeks, I'm soo excited!

I still can't believe all the amazing gifts I got (thanks everyone! xxx)

And thanks to everyone who left a comment wishing me a happy birthday, I really have had the best day ever! :)

See you all again soon,

Bye! XxXxXx

Post number 101!!!!! <]:0)

Yes people, get your party hats on!!!!!

IT'S IN IT TO KNIT IT BLOG POST NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND ONE!

Help yourself to a slice of cake!!!!! :D

(Image from: http://printfreecards.net/images/invitation/birthday-cake2.png)

I would like to take this oppourtunity to thank all my followers, regular readers, occasional readers and In fact if you've ever even just looked at my blog, thanks!

 I never thought my blog would make it this far or have so many lovely readers <3

I hope everyone has a really good day,

and I will see you all very soon for post 102!!!!!

Bye xoxo