Rococo Shoes

 I have decided to make some rococo mules for my next shoe making project. They are a bit of a combination of french 1700s fashion and Native American headdresses.

 There is one with a ribbon and one with a cabochon, I think the ribbon is more trendy while the cabochon looks a bit too costumy. Here are some of my inspiration images.

Hat Challenge: The funky astronaut

This is an "artistic" shot of my newest hat challenge results. This is the funky astronaut, inspired by vintage illustrations of space men. Friends say to me "Where do you plan to wear that?", "You look like an odd robot," and "What!?" I think what they are really trying to tell me is that they like it.

It is the first of my designs that has been incredibly close to my original sketch, I will post that later when i retrieve my sketchbook from my studio.

Slippers

This should be labeled dipped shoe project 2.0 because I used the same process to make myself a pair of slippers. I used a beige-ish natural wool paired with a blue rubber sole. I like the way the colors turned out, but some are not too keen on them.

I would like to post more pictures, but for some reason the new upload system is not letting me...

.. maybe this will be resolved later.

shoes!

I am far along in the process of making a pair of shoes. This week I finally got the confidence to try sewing my own pieces on the industrial machines in the fashion department. I am not great at sewing straight lines, but it got to be too hard to explain my pattern to the professor and sewing for me was taking up a lot of her time. All pieces have to be sewn with a 1/16" seam, so I was a bit nervous about the precision in combination with the high speed of the machines. It turned out that the fashion machines are a lot easier to use than I was led to believe.

I do not want to show the patterns for the shoes quite yet, but I would like to share my color dilemma. I need to choose a color that goes well with periwinkle and gray, not that periwinkle and gray go well together. Here are my options:

Gold

Yellow

Green

Silver

Please help me out and leave some input, I will not reveal my opinion until there is some feedback.

This is hat is cool

This hat is cool.

That is all.