Back to Hand Sewing - Final Session Prep

Today's task - sewing the elastic wristbands onto the individual capes. This meant hand sewing for the first time in ages. I had forgotten how theraputic it is!

I have sewn each band of elastic on in two places to make it more stable and secure, using pink thread so that it will be camouflaged on the cape.

Breathe:



Tonight I was helping the 'Breathe' club with making barnacles, for costumes for the Battle For the Winds performance. I made 4 barnacles in different colours with different wools. To make the barnacles, we cut a circle from acetate, cut into the centre of the circle and cut another circle inside. Then we overlap the edges of the acetate to make a conical shape, and tape it into place using masking tape. Then, taking a piece of wool, the end taped into place on the inside, you create a loop at the base of the cone, pass the end of the wool up through the centre hole and back down the outside, and through the loop, pulling tight, a lot like a buttonhole stitch. Repeat this until the entire of the acetate is covered, then tie off the ends and you have a finished barnacle.



Tomorrow morning I am assisting with the making of the Vampyr filming set that is being used for the filming of the costumes the first years on my course are making. I have some previous experience with set building, as I helped on the set for In Extremis (3rd year BA Acting show) Road (3rd year Acting show) and have built a set myself for a commercial photography shoot (written about in previous blog entry) and it is always good experience as everytime I help I learn something new.

It is something that I enjoy doing and though I have specialised more in costume design, I would like to try some more ambitious set design projects in future alongside that.

In the afternoon is the Moving Tides Young Artists (my yearmates and myself who are working on Moving Tides) Presentation to the rest of our year group, so in effect I am losing the majority of the day to work on this project but I am confident that tomorrow evening, friday and the weekend is more then enough time to get everything finished for the next session.