Hot Dogs To Win

Today was my favorite day out of the three working with Chris as our tutor.

For the first part of the day we leaned how to put a pattern on a basic block fashion illustration and how to make and display colour plates from the pattern. A colour plate is important when making templates to display how a pattern will look on a garment so that colours can be and used again to build a collection. 

Afterwards we was put into groups of five to create a garment from all our patterns. We decided to call our group HOT DOGS which is pretty self explanatory. We went through all our patterns and why we liked it getting each others opinions. We then all decided up alter our patterns so that they all link each other. We did this first by choosing a colour scheme which was earthy tones. After reassessing everyone's patterns seeing what worked well and what didn't we then made are last final edits and printed our prints A3 size before lunch. When we came back from lunch we all now how two different patterns each in A3 size or two of the same pattern in A3. 

We picked a mannequin up and laid out all our designs see which patterns link with which. We then started free styling seeing what worked with what and experimenting and we came up with this...

What I liked about this task is it allowed me to work in a group to create a final outcome (garment) which I haven't done before. This meant we had a helping hand and a range of opinions to help me. The best part was creating the final outcome because all my team members were very competitive (just like me) so we all wanted to make sure we produced the best garment (which we did). It allowed me to also see how my pattern may look on a garment and start to think about the type if fiber I want to print on and why. We was timed for this task and at the end each group had to present their garment and explain their design to everyone else. After which each group received feedback from the rest of the class and also Chris ( which was very helpful). The class then voted on which garment thy likes best and Chris also said which garment worked best. Of course he chose out group as he like how all our patterns worked together and the structural shape.

Hot dogs won !!!