First Round of Projects Due

So, it's been a couple weeks since the last post, but between work and having 4 projects due about the same time, it's been kinda hectic. But all in a good way. I've been making friends not only with the girls in class, but fellow fashion students round the internet. They are quickly becoming some of my favorite people to talk to.

Now onto my latest progress. I am about to finish up my pants for my Clothing I class. I have been held up by my machine acting up and having no class this week due to the holiday. I think I just got it to work again, hopefully the stitches are straight, they seemed slightly wonky at first. In the last class I did my first dart. I was extremely nervous, especially as everyone had our teacher physically helping them, but whenever my turn came, the same student would interrupt continuously and not let her even look at me to explain. I eventually got the theory of what she wanted and went over to a machine and just went for it.

My moods tend to dictate my successes and after having my machine break down and being forced to use a school machine, it could have gone wrong. However it looked the way she described, and she looked over everyone's heads and asked how it went. I got up to show her and she said, "Oh...Tara. It's perfect." And then called everyone up to see. Then she showed everyone the proper way to iron the dart, but didn't notice that the iron was dirty...and got my linen fabric with dirty with a dark brown (prolly melted interfacing) all over my no longer perfect dart. Luckily I was able to wash most of it out in the bathroom. Now i have to fully finish the pants by Monday, but kind of have a block going against them right now. I love them and hate them at the same time.

My art class I mainly did nothing in last week as my teacher forgot her light box and I do not have one as of yet. So since I'm doing watercolors and not markers, I was unable to trace out my final drawings. Watercolor paper is much thicker than marker paper. Hopefully I'll make some more progress come Monday.

The last two serging classes I managed to complete my maxi skirt. We had several problems with getting the serger to cooperate with my fabric, my teacher included. So one side is a bit more wavy than we wanted, but thanks to accidentally taking it in far more than we needed to, and my growing hips, it doesn't look too bad. I'll turn it in next week. Luckily my bum looks great in it ;)

As you will come to find out, technology is not my friend. So while doing the first glossary for my History of Costume class, the software was definitely not my friend. So what our teacher made look like a 30 minute assignment, became over 5 hours for me. However, I completed it on time and received full marks as well as a note, "Yeah! Perfect! Thanks for getting it!" And our test on Wednesday turned out to be insanely easy and my barely studying was practically over studying.

So far, much of this semester is me stressing over getting things done properly, them falling together in a less than my personal standards way, and my teachers giving me compliments and saying they're great. Part of me basks in it, and the other part wonders how much they're shining me on. My main hope is that these machines and I start becoming friends so I stop wanting to avoid them haha.

On a side note, my photo shoot had some difficulties, but has been rescheduled and hopefully this blog will soon get moved to a pretty site with some pretty pictures, and all in all, look far more professional and the way I want. Wish me luck, see you dolls next time.