2018 Fashion Club Continues

Fashion Club with Tat met twice in February to continue working on their Recycled Runway Fashion Show design.  Winter Break meant no school for students, but we enlisted them in fashion design lessons.

Boys Busted out the Work

Tat's sons roamed the library during our class, but we needed more hands to complete tasks.  They wrangled friends and transformed a huge box of cardboard tabs in just ten minutes.  A stopwatch timed their session.  We strictly got ten free minutes, then had to pay them....  Sheesh!

Chop-Chop

Amelia was busy chopping up 3-D printing scraps into tiny mosaic sized pieces.  I was her helper and believe we killed a few pairs of scissors.

A little Help from our Friends

We even secured a little help from our friends....ok, it's Amelia's brother.

Jina is a Glue Gun Master

Jina continued gluing cardboard tabs to our skirt base.

Nestrelda Put her Gluing skills to Use

Whatever would we do without hot glue?!

Colorful Mosaic

Those 3-D printing scraps are being formed into a colorful mosaic covering the bodice of our design.  Progress was swift this month, but time is slipping away quickly.

A True "Insider" View

There are only 3 classes left for Fashion Club with Tat.  We're having fun and forcing kids to work in unusual ways.  Now it's time to choose a title for this ensemble.

Is she Booked for the Ball or a Younique Universe?  Give us your vote!

Check back in March to find the results of our Title brainstorm.

Thanks for visiting!

~Erica

Fashion Club with Tat- Recycled Runway Prep Continued

Recycled Runway Fashion Show is the key focus to Fashion Club with Tat.  We've moved beyond the standard Fourth Friday meetings in order to keep up with a tight schedule and looming deadline.  This is the portion of classes where everyone just follows what is instructed.

Today, we are sewing plastic and denim.

Tetyana Buchholz, Tat, is the mastermind behind this program series and has all of the ideas and techniques stored in her experience.  Teens are quilting images between plastic and denim.

Life Skills, recycled

Learning to make chains with Blue Apron packaging keeps these teens very busy!

Hot Glue can be a crafter's best friend.

In creating "Glitter Ghost," our proposed design, we are striving for an ethereal look.  Trying to mute the glitz of light-catching silver is difficult.  The loops end up flattened in this first attempted method.  Testing the materials so early in the game (we haven't even gotten the official word that our design is approved) is important, because what you intend the material to do versus what it actually does is a time hog.

Strips of Packaging

Strips of packaging are cut, then glued into loops.  The strategic placement of these loops creates an interlocking system, or "fabric," which will be a main focal point of this design.

Loopy Fiasco

Although we're almost 5 hours into this design, the loops must keep going! 

Like I mentioned, this task is a time hog. 

Quilting with Trash

While one team worked in the Looping Station, another team quilted with trash.  Taking denim, printed tissue paper, and clear plastic pouches, a new fabric has been developed.

Hazy Imagery

The plastic over the images give a hazy quality, lending to the ethereal feel.  We'll be working on this portion of the design for a few more hours to perfect the technique.  It's great to have gotten an extra work day in February, because of Winter Break.  Our dedicated designers were willing to forego their school vacation and work towards the completion of this community project.  They are excited to follow directions and keep the wheels turning, knowing the vision will come together and once it does, they will have important input to the final details of this design.  Many hands make light work.  Many teens make this fun!

More Imagery

This concludes 2 more Fashion Clubs with Tat.  

Check back next month to see our progress.

Thanks for visiting!

~erica