Well it came to the point where it was my last week of working with Elizabeth, I was sad to leave I had completed five weeks there and had really enjoyed everything i was doing. It is safe to say that my last week working there was very hectic, we had a lot to do and a lot to see and just not enough time.

I am writing this now I am back home in England because the last week was so busy i didn't find time to finish my blog.

So on the Monday i think it was.... I woke up to an email off George about the Children's wear graduate fashion week competition that I had entered through University earlier this year.
This email was telling me that I was in the final 6 of the competition, I was SO excited. I couldn't believe it really!

So after jumping around my apartment for a while because I was so excited at the fact that in my second year i would be showing my collection at graduate fashion week..... HELLO!!!!!!!

Once I had kind of come to terms with it i then realised....OH WOW what am I going to do... I have three outfits to produce ready for the start of June and I am still in Dallas on my placement.....?!?!?!

I spoke to my tutor that morning (struggling with the six hour time difference). And I worked out that I needed to leave Texas two weeks early to begin working on my collection.
In my last week in Dallas I could be collecting fabrics/trims/buttons etc to start the process. Well I was in the right place anyway for the Cowboys and Indians concept!

Anyway back to work.. Monday and Tuesday really was my last days at work because the other days we were busy out of the studio.. so I decided to finish the bags that I had been working on however I was so excited still. I phoned Elizabeth and told her the news and she took me out for lunch to celebrate the good news, she was so happy and excited for me which was really nice and encouraging!!

On the Wednesday we were invited to El Centro college to judge one of the classes final assignment, this class wasn't the ordinary Fashion class though. I am not sure what the class was called, I know that a lot of them had never made a garment before though.
The brief was to create a garment but they couldn't use fabrics off a roll, everything had to be recycled. They could use anything they wanted, it didn't have to be fabric.

I was really excited for this event and I was eager to see what materials the students had used because I love using plastic so I was wondering what kinds of materials they had come up with to use.

I took quite a lot of photos so here are a few of the outfits that I took:

This was made mostly from doctors gloves.

The dress above was interesting only because it was made out of the black paper like material that you make sushi rolls with, I think this was the most unique of materials that was used. 

I found the experience of going to the class really useful and I loved seeing what other people are thinking and designing, I think creating garments from everything other than fabric gives you a different look on designing clothes, it makes you more innovative and less restricted and I think everyone should think like this when they are using ordinary fabric too.