9th April 09

Today I started hand sewing poppers onto Cherry's bra as she has two pull off round pieces of fabric that when she pulls off reveals flesh coloured fabric to look like skin. When she came in to see how everything was going she tried on the bra and decided it needed another frill on the inside, this meant I had to start repositioning the poppers.
At the end of the day I had to find phone numbers on the net for different company's phone numbers such as harrods, Harvey Nichols etc. I then had to phone these companies and get their women's wear and lingerie buyers names and emails so some event info could be sent to them.

8th April 2009

Today my first task was to change the window displays in the boutique and the bridal room with Danni. Yay a chance to get creative! We changed the wedding dress in the bridal room window and changed the corsets on the mannequins in the boutique window. We selected pastel colours to suit spring time.
I then spent the rest of the day hand sewing yet more frills on Cherry's bra...it's nearly finished. Tomorro I hav a big job to do with Danni for an upcoming photo shoot.

7th April 2009

I think today has been the longest so far all I have done is go to Wilko's for paint and plant pots for the trees outside the door and hand sew more frills on to Cherry's bra, I also made a plaited strap for a dress that looked pretty. So tired!!!

6th April 2009

Monday again! Danni started today, another girl on my course at Derby Uni. We sorted out the ribbon box into colours and sizes, I then took her to show her where Pikes was and bought a zip. We then sorted the lining box, I have sorted a lot of fabric so far I hope they keep it tidy!
We then searched for a fabric sample that Susi wanted for a customer, we couldn't find it anywhere and so rang some companies to check availability on some fabrics. Lastly today we had to choose a fabric to make chair covers for the chairs in the bridal room, we then proceeded to pattern cut the covers, it was quite difficult laying on the patterns making them fit on the fabric. We still need to make the covers though.

3rd April 2009

Today I went to John Lewis with Rebecca to get some bits and bobs, she then showed me where Pikes was in the market where they get some of their trimmings, fastenings etc. I then had to push fabric over some buttons for a waistcoat, this was so hard getting the fabric to stay over the button, tuck under and hook onto the sharp hooks, my fingers were very sore!
Then the models turned up and I helped dress some of them in corsets, this was fun!
Later I started to hand sew some tassels and frills on a bra for Cherry, Cherry is a customer, she is a burlesque dancer, Eternal Spirits make a lot of her costumes.
At the end of the day I mopped the boutique floor with Rebecca, long, long day!

2nd April 2009

For a fitting tomorrow with some models who were going to be wearing corsets to an event I had to learn how to lace up a corset properly, I enjoyed this and found it interesting how the corset changes and improves the shape of the body.
I then with the help of Rebecca had to make up a textile piece that was a picture of a corset, this is to go in mini wardrobe doors for the furniture shop owned by Susi's friend. I enjoyed this and the end result looked lovely.
I then cut out and overlocked around 4 big panels of fabric to go behind the jewellery cabinets to cover what was on the wall behind. I then obseverd Simon pattern cut and cut some myself.

1st April 2009

Did aloooooot of jobs today, first when I arrived I carried on putting eyelets in the wardrobe door panels, this was a pain as the fabric was so thin the eyelets kept getting stuck on the machine. I then had to lace up the panels, sounds easy enough but it was a lot of ribbon and it kept twisting..grr! I had to get these panels done so didn't go to the photo shoot but was assured there would be other photo shoots while I was there. I was sent to John Lewis to get some boning, laced up some corsets that had come back from a shoot, searched for Paisley prints online and learnt how to package items for delivery. Busy busy day!