Before Trip

I am leaving for England in a few days. I am so excited and nervous I could throw up. gahhh.

I will try to take many photos and will put up updates as much as I can. If it wasn't for the Center for Craft Creativity and Design's Windgate Grant, I would not be able to embark on this life changing journey, so THANK YOUUUUUUUU!!!!

Here is my very loose itinerary:

July 19-28: London, England. Pretty much staying in the city. Going to V&A, National Museum, Saatchi Gallery, White Cube, UCL museums, etcetc. Trying to not be as touristy as I will inevitably look.

July 28 - August 6: My sister meets up with me and we will be traveling together to Christina's grandparents in a more rural area of England, experiencing the country.

August 6-13: We go back to London so I can take my workshop at Central Saint Martins!!!! This is where I will be acting as a sponge to absorb everything I can learn there.

August 13-16: On the way to Antwerp, Belgium, primarily to see the Unravel knitwear exhibition at the MOMU!!@()@*@!)@# I am ridiculously excited about seeing this with my own two eyesssss! To see so many of my inspirations all in one place! not through a computer screen!!!!

August 16-20: Going to beautiful Barcelona. Coincidentally I will actually spend a part of my summer in Spain.

Speaking of Summer in Spain, ConcreteCatwalk did a small review of the show. There was some really nice feedback for all the designers. You can read them Here

Here is what she said about my collection:

"favorite parts: a very unique interpretation of the crocheted trend, i loved the exploration of the different types of garments that are not typically crafted using yarn, the bold solid colors were a great match for the medium used

room for improvement: because of the avant garde nature of this collection, i think i would have liked to see some more interesting makeup and hair styles."

And I will conclude this post with a photo of a sock monkey I made from a kit that I got as a gift from my boss at Anthropologie. (Thanks Ben K.!) I was supposed to knit it a winter cap and scarf, but it is so ungodly hot outside so I knit a summer dress instead.

ByeBye!

Foot Traffic

(photo by Tiffany Matson)

Foot Traffic, a local company that sells really awesome legwear, was kind enough to supply all the legwear to the designers of the W.18th st. Fashion Show for FREE! and of course I took that offer because who can resist free tights? in every color imaginable? I think I went there three times because I couldn't choose from the plethora of colors. I recently had an interview with them about my collection at the fashion show, and it will be posted up on the Foot Traffic blog here.

Fashion Show!

The 18th St. Fashion show was a success! I can't believe I survived my first fashion show experience. It helped to have my friends there for makeup and modeling. So really it felt like we were just playing dress up with some friends, except there were a lot of people watching...

Here are some photos of my stuff...

photo credits: tiffany matson, steve thompson, michael robert bulikus, jeff evrard

exciting news!

March was incredibly busy. I have barely caught up and it's almost April.

So, good news #1:

I got accepted as one of the designers for the West 18th st. Fashion Show!

Here is the link to find out more about this really fun event.

I feel very overwhelmed about this but I know it is going to be really good for me if I don't pass out before the big show. We just had our first meeting on Sunday and I realized that I am going to have to step up my game to be able to be on par with some of the designers showing this summer. Knitting away on a knitting machine which I don't have... yet... which brings me to the next good news which I will reveal later this week.