This week we got all of the designs back that we had been working on before Christmas!!!
Again, this was so exciting! Such a massive rush getting to see your designs in real life and all the hard work paying off in front of you.
This time I got my chunky knit jumpers , floral design and my star designs back. I was overall quite happy with both of them. I think it becomes very easy to be quite critical of your work though if it isn’t quite perfectly how you envisioned it. For example, seeing the floral design in real life I didn’t feel like the scale that I had sent in the design was matched in real life. So I felt like there was a little bit too much open space. Julinka agreed with this so we decided to park this to the side for the time being and go back to it to add more embroidery to it to fill in the space. This being said, the actual floral stitching itself was so so so beautiful, I was in awe of what the artilliers had managed to achieve.
I felt there was also a slight issue with the star design as well if I was to be very picky. You could see the floating threads through the see-through tuille which I hadn’t anticipated but overall wasn’t too detrimental.
Both of these were big learning experiences for me and I’m glad that it happened so I could learn from them when designing in the future. It also allowed me to work on my self critique and to not be too harsh on myself with my designs because at the end of the day Julinka was happy with both designs and they would both be added into the collection and taken to sales meetings which was very exciting!
This being said, the jumpers we had worked on came back a treat! The chunky knit had worked great! Julinka even liked the floral one so much she said she couldn’t sell it and she was desperate to keep it herself. This was really nice to hear and I was very happy that she was loving the designs as much as I was!
As well as mine and Julinka’s designs, Rachel’s work came back as well. This was about 20 different designs. They were all gorgeous and you could tell she really knew what she was doing with her designs and they all came out exactly as she wanted them and how she had drawn them up in her designs.
Because we had so many new designs come into the collection I spent most of the week labelling the samples up on the pattern cloud, taking pictures of them, photoshopping the designs onto garments and then adding them to the website so that clients could view the new additions to the collection. This took up the whole week more or less and by the end I was getting very quick at this administration process which was quite handy.