Textiles was quiet fun today, I was trying to
make a sleeve as a test piece, which I did make
successfully, but than decided to make sketches of some
of the designs I was thinking about lol  ...
Well I think I appreciate all fashion designers a lot more
than I did before, as sewing and and producing a design
than making it so it all works is not easy at all  

I was looking at the images of Memento Mori, Versailles
and the other images I stuck into my sketchbook and came
up with a good mix of victorian and 21st century fashion .

Louise (lecturer) was aksing me where the theme energy
would link into my work, so I told her how I was looking at
the pattern engery gives off, so the easiest, and I thought
interesting patterns are that of lightening. 
It always gives a different pattern and so gives a lot of variety.
So she introduced to me free hand embroidery, I told her I used
the embroidery ring to stitch a rose, and therefore she thought
it was a good idea to try the free hand embroidery.  
I used spare black cotton piece of cloth that Louise found, so I was
using the machine to create the embroidery 

I was going to use gold thread for the embroidery but they did not
have any at college, nor did I get a chance to by it. Instead I just
used a yellow that had a little shine on it.
Textiles lesson finished so quickly, lol, I kind of did not want it to end
was having a lot of fun .