7/31/07

Sarah and i finished the takishimaya large blankets today. My favorite (as well as Sarah's and Judy's) is the ABC with the three animals. my favorite animals are the giraffe and the elephant but they're the most complicated to work into our designs- but i still fight for them! we're starting to work on a new project. This woman ordered 15 large fleece stockings for her entire family. the only thing is that she doesnt' want them to refrence christmas too much. The theme for our stockings is going to be nature! i've been working on making patterns for the nature designs. We've agreed on mostly different types of leaves- oak and maple mostly. The woman also requested grape vines and olive branches. so i drew some of the leaves to make patterns from but i have to re-work them. they're not quite large enough and so i have to enlarge them and then i'm going to cut them our of the hard pattern brown paper so that we can reuse them over again. i'll post pictures of the stockings once we've made them!

7/23/07

last week judy was gone so sarah and i GOT STRAIGHT TO BUISNESS
we had to finish the takishimaya pillows. we woun't get the ones back thatwe were working on until next saturday but i have a few pictures of the ones we did get back this week.i have included my FAVORITE kitten infant hat that i made and everything! i really wish i could keep it but i know i cant. it must go to new york sadly :( It's also sad that Judy isnt' allowed to sell these products through her company. they are technically owned and made soley for takishimaya. i think there has to be a way that we can still sell something similar to these products through judy herself and not only through takishimaya-hopefully? they are just too good. especially the ABC blankets & pillows.

So today we silkscreened some of our new t-shirt designs for LMNOP in more "sophisticated" colors- pumpkin, burgundy, olive, gold, navy, brown and black. they turned out really really good. sarah will take pictures of them soon- once they are completely done. i really like working with just me and sarah because we're able to work as a team well. we sat down and figured out which designs go with which shirt colors- which were boy , girl, or unisex- which color combinations worked with which design - and i've also gotten really good at knowing how to mix colors. i swear the first time i tried i had to keep asking sarah and it took me about half an hour to get the right shadeof brown. but now i have it in seconds!

7/15/07

TOMORROW we are finishing up our takishimaya orders. AND we get back all the rest of the things i made from the sewer- including my favorite kitten hat! it is absolutely my favorite i will take photos of it. i kind of want to have it but i know that's impossible. I scanned in some of the new silkscreen designs we are doing for our baby and women's t-shirts. Some of the other designs that i don't have scanned images of include a chicken with the numbers 1,2, & 3, a pig with the harlequin border and a P, and a Cow with the number 1 and a C. the BAA is my absolute favorite. We also screenprinter it in darker more sophisticated colors for a different order. It was burgundy, brown, and deep purple on a light purple girls t-shirt. i wish i could make myself one but then again BAA isn't very adult appropriate.

07/13/07

today we made more quilts and pillow designs for takishimaya. our theme is circus animals going to school. my main responsibilities include but are not limited to: sewing on the smiles and gluing the faces! the one we did today was one of my favorite. it was a dog and a bear listening to a lion tell it a story! yes, that's right- they were listening. that way sarah only had to make one book instead of three! and yes laziness and genius go hand in hand. no really though, it looked perfect that way. pretty soon we will be done with takishimaya and be working more on our silkscreened designs- which i lOVE!!!!!

these photos below are from my photoshoot with sarah for our new line of women's scarfs. So not only am i a design assistant but i am also a model on our website! Judy said she really loved the photos and we've already gotten orders from our website for them. i think these are the two best photos out of the 5 total scarfs that we photographed.

07/11/07

I've felt bad lately because i haven't been able to come into the internship very much for the past week because of a sewing job i had with the Early college program. but now it's over! we got back the scarfs that i cut from the sewer. they looked so good! i took photos of them for my portfolio. i also took photos of the one-sies that we made for takishimaya. it's really amazing to see something in it's final stage. it looks so professional! i want one! right now we're getting ready for the new york gift show. but FIRST we're going to clean that studio PROPER