LAST DAY WITH CARLY

Boo hoo hoo :'( 

Horrible. 

But first I'll tell you about yesterday: Thursday 3rd May

So I took the day of work to show Lewis around New York, which I absolutely loved being miss tour guide for the day :) In the most ridiculously mushy way possible, it was great being able to share things about the city I had spent the last 3 weeks falling in love with with the person I possibly missed the most the past 3 weeks. Sorry, here's a bucket. You all have permission to go be sick after that comment...

We were really lucky and had amazingly beautiful, we went to Times Square and took loads of super touristy pictures which was barrels of fun and then we did the same in Central Park, outside the Guggenheim and just wherever a photo opportunity arose! We also visited the Society of Illustrators, as my Mr is an illustrator, I highly recommend visiting the society of illustrators is you're in NYC, or check out their website - definitely worth a look!

Pretty Boy <3

 

Today: Friday 4th May


So today was my last day, I got into the studio a little late, about 10:30 and Carly had a long list of things for me to do today.  The thing that stood out most was "make sweater dress". I was like "WOAH, what?!" This is by far the biggest compliment ever, Carly asked me to make one of her final pieces; however this was the last thing on the very long list and by the time I finished the very long list it was about 8:30, and I'd completely run out of time. This made me really sad to be quite honest; not only was it my last day, I'd missed out on the opportunity to make a piece of Carly's incredible collection. Boo :(

Anyway, back to the rest of the day. I ran a few errands in the morning, including a trip to mr. zip shortener in Panda and had a weird "I'm going back to London in a few days"/ "What a shame" moment with him, very bizarre. I did loads of cutting out, and prepping of pattern pieces for the machinists.

After work, upon Carly's recommendation, Lewis and I went to Thai Terminal in the Lower East Side for dinner; again, I strongly recommend a visit here! We ate quite possibly the tastiest Thai food ever - and I've been to Thailand! It's definitely the nicest Thai food I've had not in Thailand anyway! (though I'll always have strong loyalty to the one and only Wagamamas)

Peace out, need to rest up for a weekend packed with all the final things I want to cram in before having to go home!

Night xo

LUNCH BREAK

Posting in my (late) lunch break today as I've just finished speaking to my parents and Ellie on Skype, also Lewis arrives this evening so I'll not get a chance to write about today and yesterday as I'll be picking him up from the airport. 

Yesterday: Tuesday 1st May

I got to work about 10:30 and before I'd even put my bag down I was straight out the door running errands. First stop I was back to my zip-fixing-friend Hammar in Panda, who finally spoke to me and told me "it is because you are from London that you are beautiful" ...shocked I politely said thank you,  he blushed and that was the end of that really. He didn't say another word the rest of the time I was in the shop. Fairly awkward for both parties involved really, but sweet all the same I suppose.

Next stop was getting the drawstring cords for the parka and the windbreaker jackets; I get these from a shop called Daytona, but it's always hit and miss with who serves you as to how much you get charged. Unfortunately today I didn't get my super discount guy serving me, but as I bought a lot, they knocked a yard off each colour. (FYI: Being super friendly and super English makes people like you)

After lunch I did the pattern for the lining of the bomber jacket and worked on retracing the denim jacket pattern after it had been changed from the fitting, I was adding flat and fell seam allowances on to the seams that needed them and then I traced the final patterns onto acetate. Was nice going back to my first task when I started working with Carly. 

Today: Wednesday 2nd May

The jersey fabric is here! 

The last of the print has arrived, it's all getting very real and we have loads to do!

We've relocated again to our quiet and spacious studio downstairs to cut out the jersey, this is the fabric we need the most room for as the pattern pieces are huge - Carly's oversized t-shirt dresses and sweaters are as few pattern pieces as possible. It's pretty hard matching things up and keeping everything smooth and straight so they'll line up as jersey is a really tricky fabric to cut out (it has a mind of it's own, seriously!) Anyway, here's a sneaky preview of what we're up to:

Best get back to work! 

x

MY LAST WEEK

Weep. 

It is so sad that this is my final week. It has absolutely flown by -which sucks by the way if you hadn't gathered... 

However, I am going to stop moaning about how little time I have left and just enjoy every moment and put my all into getting as much done with Carly before I have to leave; I feel terrible leaving the week before her deadline!

I got to work for about 10am this morning to find more of the printed fabric arrived over the weekend so we now have the athletic mesh, the canvas for the parka and the denim. It's all getting really exciting and so this week I'm going to put as many hours in as I can without  being too tired and ruining something!

I spent the morning running errands, starting with seeing my new friend in Panda who sorts out the zips to get loads more shortened. As I said Thursday, we're working on putting like "packs" together with all the components for each garment, with all the pieces cut out and all the trims in one bag so that when it comes to production everything is all organised and be clear to the seamstresses. 

For the packs, I cut out any fusing that was needed throughout the collection and fused any patterns pieces that required it. I also cut out some linings and mesh panels that were needed for the packs we were working on, and we begun cutting out some of the printed mesh until about 9:30 when my energy levels completely crashed and I had to tidy away and head home.

Very. Sleepy. Good. Night.

WEEKEND CHILL OUT

Saturday 28th April

Steph's been working in some super cool studios in Chelsea the past couple of days, and a friend of mine Victoria had told me that Chelsea markets were a must so we decided that we'd spend today wandering around the area. 

After a hectic week, we decided we'd have a lie-in and meet up about 12 at 8th Ave station so we could go straight to Chelsea Market; Victoria knows me too well and all her recommendations of places to go to and things to do have been completely spot on. I fell in love with the place. It's in such a beautiful building and it is FULL of interesting things to see, buy and eat. I could have spent all day, maybe even all weekend there (had I had the money, the lobster restaurant looked to die for!) but as it was a really beautiful day, we only spent a little while in the market before having a sit in the park near by, going for lunch and spending the day wandering from Chelsea down through the Meatpacking District and the West Village, to Soho and Tribeca. It was a really lovely day :)

I'll not over-load this post with text and will leave the rest as a photo-diary: 

rolly polly in the park. being a real grown-up, obviously.

 

Sunday 29th April

Today I have died in bed. All day dead. Bleurgh.