New Campus, New Subject

We have shifted TAFE campuses and are now in the city. Our classroom is fantastic, all new and renovated, with big windows overlooking Light Square. Our first day of our last semester and we were all right back into things. Everyone is working really hard to stick to their timelines, we know how quickly the time will go and soon it will be our parade.

I am really pleased with my progress so far, two weeks into the term and I have almost finished one outfit, patternmade and toiled another, and started patternmaking the third. I have cut my leather for the first outfit and have talked to the footwear lecturer about how to attach it to my garment. I have trialed her suggestion and it will work really well, but I am going to a saddelery place next week to see if they have any other ideas. By the end of next week I really want to have two outfits finished

Hong Kong

I'm back from Hong Kong, didn't get any shoes though. It was an amazing experience to be able to tour factories and see the working conditions where our clothes get made.

We went to Sham Shui Po, an area with streets and streets of shops and stalls selling fabrics and trims. It was a bit overwhelming and easy to get lost. There was a set up on one street where lots of stalls were housed inside a dodgy looking tent thingy made of tarpolins and basically whatever else they could find. There were so many fabrics inside and we had to squeeze down the aisles and sort through piles of fabric to find what we wanted. We didn't stay for long though because it was so hot and there was no air circulation so we were ready to pass out - not sure how the workers cope.

I didn't get any more fabrics for my collection either. Not that I needed to, but I looked to see if I could find anything better. I'm still happy with the ones I got here in Adelaide.