A week of sewing has gone by and my second dress for my range is in construction.  This dress is made from a nude colour chiffon with a baby pink chiffon draped over.  It then has a beaded pearl and crystal neckline and waist line.  So again its a very soft and French feel to it.  A tight pencil skirt style dress. And now a week of art ahead of me.  We have to design and make two different swing tags for our range.  So that's very exciting, i already know what I want to do. 
And a little phrase to go by for the week, by Coco Chanel; Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

 *K

So the wedding dress is finished, the bridesmaids dress is finished and the flower girls dress is finished!! what a holiday, not that I can call it that..But they all looked stunning and the wedding was amazing! and all the praises I got made it all worth while.  I dont think I would easily do it again, but a challenge is always good.  As they say all things that are worthwhile do not come easy.  So my first ranges outfit is officialy finished.  A white dress with a fresh water pearl neckline.  The end of year is creeping up very quickly, when I look again my whole range is finished..so far I'm finding it very exciting.  So I've added just a small picture of the bride and the bridesmaid.

And a little quote for the week;

I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls - Audry Hepburn

So I have never been as busy as I have been last week! Firstly it started with 9 storyboards for the monday, then starting of a new storyboard on that day, wednesday we had to to a drawing of a fabric landscape and design a logo for our third year collection.  And friday I get home and just work the whole weekend on a wedding dress I am busy making! and the bridesmaid dress and the flower girls...So hold thumbs for me, this all has to be done before the 30th of April.. But I'm off to go carry on with work at a new week at Fedisa
*K

 

So the first picyure is my smocking dress I'm wearing and the other three are of the black dress I made for a client.

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So this weekend I worked on a dress for a client, a wet look black dress with a very low back and diamante buckles.  Very pretty I must say...I will put a picture up now now.  Today I've been busy on my 6 samples that have to be in Friday.  These 6 samples have to all be refabricated in some way, and we must use at least one of them in our third year range.  I'm doing dip dye, tye dye, pintucks, smocking, coffee dying and beading.  I'm using at least three of them in my range.  The pintucks I'm doing will have top stitching running over them in parallel lines going in opposite directions to create the look of waves.  Most of my designs consist of beading in some way, especially the neck lines of the dresses, I love little pearls and glass beads.  Smocking is also one of my favourite techniques to make a simple dress.  I'm actually wearing one of my smocking dresses now while I write this, I will also put a picture up now now .  Smocking is so simple, you take a piece of rectangle fabric, and with the grain you will start smocking horizontal lines across the fabric.  You will do this to about the waist line, and I will then round the dress off by doing a french seam, this will also secure the smocking ends.  And there you have a simple boobtube dress.  So now go try it out yourself!
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So for tommorrow I have to have had 70 designs, front and back, drawn, leading to my range.  And what a process, somedays I felt as if I cant stop, but I'm done and Im really happy with some of them.  But wow, Im really feeling 3rd year now, the work doesn't end.  I feel a bit overwhelmed by it all, but I'm doing what I love so why complain..a little inspiration for the week is a picture I found that suits the colour scheme of my 3rd year range.

*K

Another week of pleasure

What an amazing day today, just got back from the beach, koegel bay.  Stunning weather and friends.  The sun and beach make me feel like a new person, and I can carry on with another busy week at Fedisa.  We making a pencil skirt tomorrow, with a vent.  On friday I went to the Design Indaba at the CTICC, a highlight of the year, I really love it.  And I found a new designer that I have fallen in love with!! She's a jewellery designer, and the range is called "Papillon Belle".  Its a range of butterfly pendants, encased in a thin layer of glass and rimmed off in silver.  She uses real butterfly wings, from dead butterflies that come from Madagascar.  They are amazing, and they stay as beautiful as they are the day you buy it.  The real beauty about it is the fact that the wing is different from the bottom to the top of the wing.


So just a little something to keep you wanting it as much as I do!!
                                                           *K
http://www.papillonbelle.com/