Sew, sew, sew....

Seem to be spending a lot of my time pattern making of late, so nothing I'd like more than to share it with you all. I have been trying some new methods of patterns making, and finding my own style of technique that suits me!  

1. Zero waste method. Having a square of material, cutting, and manipulating to come up with a a garment design. And yep, there is no fabric waste allowed! I manipulated my scrap fabric from the bodice into flowers and a platted waistband

 2. Shingo Sato Transformation Reconstruction... And an amazing technique which involves drawing shapes and design lines onto the dress form and then cutting out the design lines on the fabric, to then transfer the pattern to paper. He has many on line tutorials and it is an amazing technique. This is an example of "the ribbon dress". The curved lines were incredibly hard to sew, but I think the outcome was interesting!

3. I am lucky enough to be doing a project with Jeanwest at the moment.... My task is to re invent the denim jacket and create a range to go along side it in a group of 3. This is my denim jacket toile, that I designed and pattern made from scratch! I was really happy with the lines and fit... 

4. Dyed my own denim!... What an experiment. I really liked the final look of the denim and the idea of teaming it up with Jacquard. Cant forget your tea and a great pair of scissors when cutting out your pattern.

5. A sneak peek! The jacket is coming along well, this is a little sewing I did today... Can't wait to show you the campaign shoot... 

It's Sunday.

Attended the Fashion Exposed event at Melbourne Exhibition Centre today as a Business Owner, and that was a pretty cool feeling! Listened to some speakers, what I found especially interesting was the seminar on social media. It is incredibly powerful, and we must admit, we all love it! 

What's your favourite type of social media? I can't seem to get enough of Instgram follow me @ageh. I can not wait to have a website next year... Thanks for jumping on the bandwagon early viewers! It will all be worth it! 

This is just a quick Sunday night post! I will be back this week and excited to share you with some pattern making projects and new techniques I've been trialing.  

It's Sunday so, time for tea. x 

Enjoy-

Rosetta

Some days are more difficult than others... Today everything felt overally time consuming, overwhelming and like everything was challenging me! All trivial things like, fabric stores running out of my order, denim not dying perfectly, patterns not working out to plan, machines playing up, my phone dying and so on.Then I remembered the beautiful people that cant be here with me anymore and the meaning behind my label.... and I took a deep breathe!

Sometimes I think we forget to breathe and live in the moment. I try to practise this every day, the little hippie inside me tells me to. And I am crazy, but it does work! Remember to be grateful in everything we do.

The very first blog post is actually based on my Dad and all that time ago I promise I would do one on the "Rose" in my label name. Mickey Rose was named after my Dad, Mick and my mums best friend in the whole world,  Rosetta. 

Rosetta was like an auntie, a big sister, a second mum, a close friend to me. She was a mum to two beautiful kids and an amazing wife. I will share one amazing memory with you that hopefully gives you an insight to why her names deserves a part in my label... I have been drawing ever since I was about 5 years old, when I was a teenager I started to take it very seriously and drew for hours on end. She would always ask me to see my folios, "one day make me this..." she would say "...you're amazing" "you're going to make it one day girl..." Everyone around us told her she was getting my hopes up too high and that it wouldn't let me be realistic with my goals.... That's insane, it has only motivated and inspired me til this day to be the best version of myself and make the most of my determine personality and skills. I work really hard at this but I want to design garments and gifts that people can enjoy. It's only very early days but I hope I am making them proud so far...

I love you both, & I miss you. Thanks for believing in me. 

Inspiration...

Did you know? Most of the time when children's wear designers are brainstorming for a collection they often look to women's fashion for inspiration and concepts! Many women's wear trends and details can be interrupted into littlies clothing. The silhouette might differ but the design features can definitely be taken on board and re invented. These are some looks I'm really adoring right now, the theme throughout is  a Gypsy, Bohemian feel. I am currently in the process of drawing up some designs based on this inspiration and seeing where it can take me... In the end I will be hoping producing a women's evening wear garment! (It's for uni, so must womends!) But will look at re creating it into a mini me version early next year, size 1 to 7.

Look at the amazing attention to detail, bead work, fantastic pattern & colour choice with relaxed spring/ summer vibes...

Enjoy-x

Boys, boys, boys....

Showed some loving for boys wear on my Instagram today, check it out & follow; @ageh

So thought I'd do the same here! And shed some light on the boyswear looks I am loving right now... 

Loving the "old man", vintage and relaxed vibe look on little Dudes!

 Low crotch baggy pants, Adorable^^^

 The Cardigan ^^^

 Warm & Sad colours, too precious <3 ^^^

 Jackets as dress up ^^^

 Classic ^^^

 Great complete outfit, Zara got it very right here! ^^^

Winter fashion ^^^

(Disclaimer: Images off pinterest)

Looks I'm loving....

Some looks, shoots and fashion Mickey Rose is loving right now! 

What's your faveourite?

-x

(All images from Pinterest, no designers or photographers given.)

Mood/ Vision Boards....

Ever needed a little more motivation?... 

Vision and mood boards are a great way to help you set goals and keep yourself motivated. I have started two seperate ones for slightly different aspects of my life. In the past I have found myself easily disheartened and unmotivated but this half of the year really wanted to change that! 

The first mood baord is a bunch of images or childrens wear garments that I had collected over time that really inspired me! Also a bunch of adorable fabric I had collected and cut into shapes and images. Anything that made me feel inspired and think, adorable! I placed it on my huge "study" soon to be "office" desk with pefect flowers, a vintage art work from my Mums childhood room and scented soy candles, of course!

The second mood board was more like, a mood door! I put together images from magazines, like the fernwood fortmonthly magazine, FRANKIE magazine, women's heath mag and special things from Lola Berry's healh Seminar (an amazing food/health nut, check her out here!). Also through on a bunch of polaroids of people that mean the world to me! (but more about those polaroids in the next post, or so.) 

Friends & Family

Exercise

Travel the world

Fruit and Veg

Have fun

Sew

Art

Be Zen

Mickey Rose <3

Go get mood baording!-x