Busy & Exciting Week

Blog May 3, 2009

Last Week’s Blog left you with a cliff hanger. The designers in the picture are as follows from left to right, top to bottom. 1. Donatella Versace 2. Betsy Johnson 3. Miuccia Prada
4. Elsa Schiaparelli 5. Madeleine Vionnet 6. Coco Chanel (See below for the picture !!!)

This week, we have the West City Campus Open House and Fashion Show on May 6, 2009. Here is a time table of the goings on…………… The timing is from 10 – 2 PM.

Fashion Shows will be in room 211:

Show I: teachers and students from room 211, Clothing and Textile room, 11:30 to 11:50 Students in the first show should line up near the jewelry room at 11:00.

Show II: teachers and students from 209, Industrial Sewing room, 12:15 to 12:35 Students for the second show line up right after the first show is finished near the jewelry room.

Donna Namdar, program chair, will greet the audience for each show and go thru the first few slides that introduce the program, stop the power point and then the instrumental music will start and the models will begin to enter the room.

****Students line up outside the door of the classroom closest to the jewelry room on the outside stairs. They enter the room from the door closest to the jewelry room. They stop, strike a pose, Sam will be positioned with his camera as they enter the room. They continue to walk across the room, stop for a quick pose to the audience before they exit. They wait quietly in the hall way until the show is over. Walk with confidence and with good posture !!!

Helpers/Docents will wear paper name tags that say Fashion Show Assistant, and should arrive at just before 11:00.

Demonstrations:

Joan McKenna in Sewing Storage 216 doing a Patternmaking demonstration 10:30 to 11:00

Patti Fuhrer in hallway between sewing rooms doing a Textile Surface Design demonstration 12:45 to 1:15

Jenne Hill in hallway between sewing room doing a Tailoring demonstration 1:15 to 1:30

Karen Cunagin will complete the empty bulletin board and have a quilt on display.

Displays: Room 211: Clothing and Textile Room Using the three cutting tables: Table 1 and 2 Kathleen, pillows and purses 3 Patti Fuhrer. Department power point going in a loop after the show.

Displays Room 209: Mannequin modeling on cutting tables. Other course displays on the lower tables. Department power point going in a loop
Foods and Nutrition:

Tray passed appetizers served by students on the first floor only.

Culinary demonstration room will play a looped Foods and Nutrition Power Point and chocolate making video when Chef Sara is in between her chocolate dipped strawberry demonstrations.

Tours will be able to view the demo kitchen but not the industry kitchen as students will be preparing food.

The formal presentation with Chancellor Carroll will start at 10:30.

This update is current as of today and is subject to changes.

http://www.valentinomovie.com/ is opening on May 8th. Call the “Gas lamp 15” for more info.
619-232-0410

May 9th, is Sew Pro’s trip to the LA garment district and M & L fabrics. I will be on the bus. Here is a link to see what is on sale at Michael Levine’s. http://www.mlfabrics.net/newsletter/PDF/may.pdf I do hope to see MANY of you there !!!!

Embroidery: Monday, May 4, is the collection day for our feather shirts if you will NOT be modeling in the fashion show on Wednesday. If you have finished your shirt, we will be embroidering stretch velvet. You will need Solvy topper and a cutaway stabilizer.

Basic Sewing: Monday, May 4, is collection day for your sewing portfolios. I know, they are not finished yet. BUT…I want to present our work at our display table. Bring to class what you got !!! We will be making more samples in class.

Patternmaking: All bets are off as to the speed we are making in this class. This is a very involved class. There are lots of side points that we are hitting like finding jobs in the Apparel Market in this tough economic time. Check out my job links. Last week, we worked on the sleeve. We still need to add seam allowance to the rest of the pattern pieces, do facings and interfacings and sew up our first garment to check the fit of our patterns.

I made a jpg image out of my 4 flyers for my summer 7 week classes. I will attach it to an email. In this way, you can print it out and it will be readable.

Make $$$ with your skills !!!!!!!