FUNdraising (See what I did there, oh no...)

Hi one and all,
Thought I should post a recap of what we discussed during the meeting on Thursday.

- For New Designers we have set a base target for raising £100 for each person going to ND, hopefully it will be more, but this is just a figure to use to set some targets.

- So we have decided upon a date and venue for our FIRST EVER SURE TO BE SPECTACULAR TEXTILE MIXER NIGHT on Wednesday, October 13th at Drouthies, we'll smooth out details in next week's meeting regarding this. In the meantime, Lorri is collecting £2 for a 'business investment', which translates as money for the deposit at Drouthies and to purchase supplies for making things.

- We have avoided the idea of using the union as a fundraising tool instead utilizing our handy nature and with Lora's suggestion shall proceed to make some goods for a Christmas sale (or perhaps sooner?)

- Carrie has kindly looked into costs for Christmas cards, and currently they stand at 13p for card, 4.5p for envelopes and 25p for badge backs and £3 for chain for necklaces. Also for the potential of doing a valentines fundraiser Carrie also acquired the info from her lovely librarian that for 100 roses it's £14.

-There have been loads of great suggestions for things to do, most notably in my mind, Debbie's idea for scarves, Cathrine's tote bags and Sarah's calendar idea.

-Ashleigh is looking into the costs of printing, either for a class catalog (yearbook!?) or perhaps the calendar.

- We have lots of fantastic ideas and at the moment they are all floating about so this weekend I'll make up some suggestion boxes for fundraising and for general suggestions (even though my boxes certainly won't be as lurrrrvly as the one last year!)

SO FOR NEXT WEEK'S MEETING WHICH WILL HOPEFULLY BE AT THE SAME TIME IN ROOM 400 BRING BITS YOU HAVE LYING ABOUT SUCH AS: BUTTONS, BEADS, SCRAPS OF FABRIC, RIBBONS, FELT, WHATEVER (in andy's words) and SOME SEWING/GLUING/ADHESIVE SUPPLIES.

Great start ladies and let's make our year a year of textiles that NAEBODY WILL FORGET!
xo

Stats

oh I just noticed something new added to the blog. if you  click on the B in the top left corner and go back to the "dashboard" in the list of buttons beside where it says "NEW POST" it now says "STATS". You can now see who's been looking at our blog and where they have come from to get to it

Hello other years

At the student Rep meeting we suggested that 2nd and 3rd years might be interested in having a look at what we're chatting about.


So HELOOOOO THERE if you are one of them. Please leave comments and help us on our quest to find loadsa money for New Designers.

Current Ballance = Nae Pennies

Also have a look at our tutorial help sheets. Hopefully we will be doing some more Skillswap sessions soon.

Oh lizette maybe we should try organise that too. Perhaps we could make stuff in Skillswap to sell to make some moneys!

Go fash yourself

With Lorri's recommendation, have a looky at this website: http://fashematics.com/
TOTAL GENIUS.
Also, loving new background!

British Design Awards

See the shortlist here.

Some really beautiful designs. Quite a lot of textiletastic ones too!

Eco footprint of fashion

Hey I know there must be somebody doing a dissertation thats about social or environmental sustainablility and textiles.

I was browsing the net and came accross the Pategonia site that shows you the journey that your garment has taken and tells you information about how sustainably manufactured it has been


Pategonia - The footprint chronicals

Mill Shop Job

Hi ladies!

i know the hand in date has passed but if you are interested in this part-time job please email the link below!

The Fabric Mill at Halley Stevensons are looking to recruit someone with an
interest and working knowledge of fabrics. Ideally the candidate would be
able to suitably advise customers as to the appropriateness of particular
fabrics for the job they are doing. i.e. upholstery or curtains. Also useful
would be the ability to calculate fabric requirements from window
measurements given by the customer. Previous retail experience also
desirable. More importantly personality and excellent customer service
skills are essential as training can be provided in product knowledge and
fabric calculations. Hours are yet to be decided but are likely to be on
average 8 hours per week (all at weekends), perhaps more. There will also be
opportunity to cover any holidays and sickness. The starting rate of pay
will be in the region of £7.00/hr. If anyone wants to be considered then
email andy@waxedcotton.com . The closing date for applications is next
Friday 3rd September.

Carrie