My course

I was finding my course quite hard, and intense. In the first week or so they had already set us three deadlines, they were : an essay on 2 fashion images I think it had to be 3000 words, create a sample folder of seams, and a pattern cutting folder, do fifty designs make a toile and a dress.

The dress had to have sleeves, a collar, a pocket and a zip, which I didn’t mind because I love constructing garments, but the teachers didn’t give you much support on how to go about it.

The worst one for me and most people was to do 100 A3 drawings on one emotion (mine was envy) and one colour (green) using lots of media, as my weakness is drawing, I found this very hard and you didn't get very much support on it, which didn't help. Quite a few of the students thought it was quite intimidating setting us that many drawings for our first project.

I was finding university quite hard to settle down in, as I didn’t enjoy the house I was living in and I wasn’t enjoying the course, as it was mainly drawing and hardly any practical, which is what I enjoy the most. So I had a few options which were, just getting on with it but not being happy, dropping out of university or changing course.

I was considering dropping out of university but I found out there were career advisors who could give you support at the university, and they let me know about the FDA Fashion course – which I didn’t even know existed. I really liked the sound of the course, it sounded like just what I was looking for. So I met up with a few of the teachers and showed them my work I have created over the years, and they agreed to let me move on to their course.