make a dress out of six triangles, go!

I made a dress out of six triangle shaped pattern pieces; no sketching, no toile, and it actually fits me! It’s made from calico as it was just a quick little project, but I think i’m definately going to replicate this skirt and do more work on the stand rather than sticking to flat patterns all the time. I have SO many designs for clothes I want to make, and I have decided that i’m no longer buying clothes, not just because I pretty much can’t afford it, but because it will encourage me to MAKE MAKE MAKE. Mark Timmins the head of fashionland at Heriot Watt gave a really amazing talk about how we are fashion designers, not fashion consumers and it has really stuck in my head.

Ps. I have only learned this past week that it is called a 'toile' and not a 'mock up'. Feel like a tomato for being such a fool! Now I know that when i'm in groups doing work and I bang on about the 'mock up' people aren't staring at me like i'm a loony for nothing.

K