Counting down the days...

Until the Hand-in plan!  Technically we have til either 12 or 4pm or something on the wednesday but I'd rather schedule up until that so that if I need that little extra time its there.

Day	Activities
Sunday 18th	Housework, shower, sign form, dissertation, sketchbooks
Monday 19th	Workshop - finish Mer, Plume & Dew!!  If only morn get as much done as poss.   Do eyelets in afternoon/evening
Tuesday 20th	Lecture - maybe not go (meeting after tho) Sketchbooks!!!!  Underskirt - finish @ home
Wednesday 21st	Finish shell/any others not done
Thursday 22nd	Hand sewing/other finishing.  If finished do patterns @ home
Friday 23rd	CAD / Specs.  Prep for photoshoot.  Boards
Saturday 24th	Photoshoot!!!   Finish specs and any touching up/cleaning/finishing of garments.  Sort out pics
Sunday 25th	Sketchbooks - FINISH
Monday 26th	Dissertation - FINISH & PRINT  - Get bound
Tuesday 27th	Finish patterns / Create boards
Wednesday 28th	Hand in!

So much to doooooooooooooooo!

Plans for the weekend:

Saturday 17th March
Time	Action
8.40	CAD Template
10.30	Hang up washing
10.40	Dishes
11.00	CAD "Dew"
12.30	Clear up in living room
1.00	Lunch & CAD "Plume"
3.00	CAD "Mer"
4.30	CAD "Shell"
6.00	Tea & Break
7.00	Sketchbook - templates
8.00	Sketchbook - theme
9.30	Sketchbook - trend
10.30	Sketchbook - research
12.00	Sketchbook - design & dev.
1.00	Sketchbook - fabric
1.30	Project Diary
3.00	Bed

Sunday 18th March
Time	Action
9.30	Finish selection & justification
11.00	Write conclusion & rec.
12.00	Lunch
12.30	Sort out brief & background.
3.00	Write abstract.
4.00	Do washing
4.30	Sort out figures/contents/glossary
5.30	Tea
6.30	Go over entirety and cut down
9.30	Break
10.00	Sketchbooks
12.00	Bed

Me

To deviate from stuff I'm making I wanted to take an ID style pic yesterday:

Look I have a mannequin - see, see! :p

Pleated my hair when I got out the shower so it would do something other than its natural poker straight status.  Here it is today:

(Apologies for the quality, the first one is from my Nikon, the second from my laptop webcam haha)

So yeah it mildly waves the ends of my hair but I look kind of like a my little pony now either way with all the shades of blue, green, pink, purple and orange in there.  I will miss multicoloured hair when I go "employable purple" Boo hiss.

When you sleep in...

...your whole day goes tits up!

New planning it is!! I've decided on Monday it might be a push to get stuff done before I head to Edinburgh to see Jess so I'm just going to put my shopping list for Monday.  She normally leaves around 4pm to get home for tea so by that logic I'll probably get home just after 6pm.  Then of course I'll have my tea and get on with stuff so I'll just take it from the overall list.

Days of Workshop Access left: 4 full (Wed 14th & 21st/Thurs 15th & 22nd, 3 halfs (Monday 19th and Fridays 16th & 23rd)
TO DO LISTAGE - In order of importance

• Cut coutil for 'cream' layer of Plume (40 mins)
• Sew boning channels in this and insert bones (1 hour)
• Secure bones in (10 mins)
• Underskirt for Plume fishtail - has to be gathered to 106cm plus seam allowance (so 108cm) (1 hour)
• Underskirt for Mer - MUST be done by workshop access on Wednesday (3 hours)
• Underskirt for Shell - Also MUST be done by workshop access Weds/Thurs as I need to know if I need a bustle too (Endless hours)
• CAD Fashion Template & Drawings (12 hours)
• CAD Working Drawings - Alter to be more accurate to design changes (5 hours)
• The million sketchbooks I have left to sort out (Weeks)
• My written dissertation (3 Solid days)
• Accessories for collection (weeks)
• Organise PHOTOSHOOT (Meep)
• Technical Specifications (Weeks)

Things to buy on Monday:

• Pink lining - 4m
• Pink silk chiffon - 3m
• Pink/Cream lace - 2m
• Flesh net for behind lace - 2m
• New domestic machine needles - Assorted or sharp point; denim; stretch
• New fiskars fabric scissors
• New bridal pins
• New domestic machine bulb - P12 V/(E1) 2DR/W5WJ42

Okay time to get on with it!!

Machine Mentality

Plan of Action!

Note to Self: Must become a stitch Ninja

Saturday
Get up at 7.30am

• Cut coutil for corset (Shell)
• Sew corset boning channels (Plume)
• Cut out extra layer for Plume and stitch together & bone
• Sew corset together and sew channels (Shell)
• Insert all boning
• Stitch boning channels closed so bones stay in place

Didn't get done on Saturday but don't really have time for on Sunday list:

• Sew lining of shell and facings which correspond
• Unpick c/b seam (Dew)
• Gather underskirt (Mer)
• Model Mer on mannequin and place sections
• Gather netting for fishtail (Plume)
• Gather underskirt (Shell) *groan this one's huge*

Sunday
Get up at 6am

• 6.30am CAD Template & Fashion Drawings (print for sketchbooks)
• 11.30am Edit CAD working drawings (print for sketchbooks)
• 3.30pm Template/Silhouette Sketchbook - Try to finish!!
• 5pm Research file - do lots of samples, trim dyeing samples, re-organize
• 8pm Trend - Annotate, Do paper samples
• 9pm Fabric samples for specs/sketchbooks
• 10pm Theme - Stick down all sketches, annotate
• 11.30pm Prepare fabrics for going fabric shopping (colour matching)

Monday
Get up at 6.30am

• 7am Cut out carded patterns and hang up
• 9am Head to Edinburgh to visit Jess
• Buy fabric: 3m pink lining, 2.5m pink chiffon, new bridal pins, new fabric scissors (fiskars), 3m stretch lace
• 7pm Finish underskirt for shell if not yet done
• 10pm Continue working on sketchbooks

Phew! Busy weekend ahead!!