Junk Kouture!

Hey there!

               Well lads, as i mentioned before, as part of TY design, Home Ec and Art, we are doing a project called 'Junk Kouture'! This project involves us collecting recycled materials and creating an outfit suited to a theme. I am in a group with Shannon and Aisling :) We work well together! Our theme is Irish Dancing.
               Basically, we collected two tutu's, one mine and one our friends. They are pink and yellow, which we decided our main colour scheme would be based around. For the first few weeks of the project, we began to make our bodice. We moulded chicken wire around our model, Aislings top. We then began to paste newspaper to it, to make paper maché.  Once this had dried, and we had made a bodice, we began to paint it! We had mad craic painting the design onto the bodice! Once again, we stuck to our main colour schemes, pink and yellow.
               After we had finished the bodice, we started to make the skirt. We sewed the two tutu's together using a zig zag stitch, which was a new skill I had picked up. We then cut out pleats from the bed sheet and Shannon painted a design onto each pleat. I sewed the pleats on. We then decided to sew some sequences onto the bottom of the pleat to give it a bit of a sparkle!
               Now we are half way through the shoes. We have stuck diamondy thingys onto the heels, and Aisling has sewn pink and yellow beads onto the shoes. We are going to sew some sequence's onto the sides of the shoes in art, so our shoes are extremely blingy!
               The catwalk is on next Tuesday or Thursday, so we are all looking forward to it !