Pleating my life away...

I love this machine:
I admit it looks a bit scary but it's actually quite fabulous. It's an industrial pleater, and when you thread it up you can work some fabric through and it comes out all crinkly!

I've been trying it with all kinds of fabrics from cottons to ribbons, so now I just need to boil them all so I can take the threads out.

With my fashion coursework due in next week, it's very time consuming at the moment and I'm sorry I've been neglecting all your lovely blogs! But after Monday (assuming my Fine Art is sorted too! Yet another deadline.) I'll hopefully have some more time to relax and read though them to my hearts content. Thank you to everybody who follows or comments this blog, or just takes the time to read my ramblings. :)

I love this magazine:

Elle Collections.
These are the only magazines I will never rip a page out of or cut up, but keep them as one fabulous reference point to the season.

Bath Fashion Museum

For me the highlight of the to Bath was visiting the Fashion Museum at the Assembly Rooms. http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk/ I'd been wanting to visit for quite some time.
Resisting the wonderful array of fashion books in the shop, I came out with this guide and a mighty stack of postcards. The cover image is just gorgeous.