How "Project:Runway" got me excited about designing again.....

How does a Talented (???) Designer get her designs to the public?

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So, how does a Talented (or somewhat so) Designer (who doesn't sew very well) get her designs to the public? I've been wondering about this for a larger part of my life.

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Project Runway and My New Found Reinterest in My Designing
Jewelry Designing
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Project Runway and My New Found Reinterest in My Designing

I've been designing since I was in my teens. I started off by tracing figures from comic books and designed clothing on them. I also learned how to knit (I learned how to crochet when I was about 10) and started knitting and crocheting doll clothes (like the ones I have on my Shop-it site -- see below) and I would sell them through a consignment store.

Years later, I had a full time job and I decided to go to Fashion school part time. The only problem was that I couldn't seem to learn either flat pattern design or draping fast enough to pass the class (I wished they gave a slower version of the class that gave 1/2 the credits for 2 halves of the class given over two semesters instead of one, but that didn't happen).

Jewelry Designing

So I decided to try Jewelry designing. I took two classes in Jewelry Design -- one was how to draw (render) jewelry design. I learned both well enough to render and make jewelry.

A number of years later, when I got a Macintosh and one of the programs I bought for it was Microsoft Office and, when I upgraded my system, I discovered PowerPoint.

I developed a way to design (render) jewelry designs on PowerPoint. When I rendered designs the way I was taught in Fashion School, it took me a few days to render a design. With the computer, I created new designs in about 1/2 hour.

Discovering Fashion Ads

My next step was to trace fashion ads and add clothing to the figures. I liked the way things turned out with these ads tracings (I even used one of the drawings for a basis for a dress I wore to my brother's wedding, but I digress).

But I wasn't doing much designing at that point. But then my nieces got me hooked on Project Runway and I got interested in my old designs (and in making new ones). But I saw how those designers were able to take their sketches and create clothing from them. I wanted (and want) to do that.

In the interim, I also got interested in designing footwear (shoes, flip-flops, boots, etc.) but I have no idea how to turn my sketches into actual shoes (I did do some designs on zazzle but they don't express the true range of my designs. I have some sketches up on line at my Shop-it site of a couple of pairs of shoes I designed.)

So, the point of this lens is to put the word out there to anyone who might be able to create my designs -- If you're out there and you want to work with me, send me a comment with info on how to get in touch with you.

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