Monday and Tuesday

Monday morning, we had Sewing with Muriel, and we all basically worked on our evening dresses. I finished tracing my 2 largest pieces from the back, and began notching. I was trying to get it done quickly, since it seemed like everyone had already started on cutting out their pieces from the fabric. So I notched away the rest of the afternoon.
While Muriel was taking roll, she asked me what kind of name "Ewald" was. I told her it was German and supposedly meant "eastern forest" (no lie). After she asked if I was all German, I added that I was also part Hungarian and part Ukranian. That led to an interesting conversation on how America is a huge "melting Pot" of various origins, and she asked Liz and Ashley about their respective heritages (heritagii?) as well. That somehow segued into talking about how there were a lot of French students in Belgium doing their "bac" (sort of the big test to determine if/what college you'll attend) because it's cheaper and easier.
During Art History, we talked about Neo-Expressionism. It was pretty interesting, but I did (part of) my embroidery sample. I hadn't really had any good ideas of what I wanted to do for it (since it was supposed to be done in the way we wanted the bag to be), even though I had made a research file and based some sketches off that. We ended up waiting about half an hour for Agnes to show up, and while we were waiting, I finally got an idea that I was excited about. It involved 3 panels (one using a technique that has been pretty time-consuming), and so would probably take a long time, so I got started right away. By the time class was over, I had the difficult panel about halfway done, and was relieved since I knew that the other 2 panels (which used the same technique, involving batting stuffed between fabric layers) wouldn't take as long.
After class, I went to Monoprix and worked more on my samples. I managed to get it done to the point I wanted, thinking that I would do some of it in class the next day. (It was one of those things where I wasn't sure how exactly I wanted it to look.) I got them done around 9 pm, and them spent some time drawing croquis (which looked better than my usual ones, I must say) and 10 beachwear outfits. I ended up drawing 12, 6 swimsuits and 6 dresses for eating at a resort restaurant. I also talked to Erin for awhile, and eventually went to bed around 2 am.
Tuesday morning was Stylism with Susan. First, she spoke with people individually about their progress on the evening bag project. I was a little apprehensive about this, since I had heard her tell some people that they had done virtually nothing since about 5 weeks ago (the last time we saw her before our break). But it ended up going really well. I first reminded her of what she had told me to do, and showed her my research file from the Bibliotheque Forney. She was very pleased that I had gone there, and said that everyone should be going there, as well as the fact that designers look for people with good research skills (since they themselves don't have the time to do so), so it'd be likely that I'd get a good job. So that was really good to hear. We then discussed my samples and examined my 10 bag sketches to see which one would be best for me to (attempt to) make. She was going on about one bag, drawing out how it would go, and I had to stop her and point out that my sample was more in line with another. So then she told me how I should go about doing that one, and I was instructed to make a paper maquette of what it would look like. I spent the rest of the class doing so, and finished near the end. I conferred with Susan about it, and she told me to change up the curved lines radiating outwards from the center so as not to line up with the vertical chevrons of the center part. On that note, class was over.
We got out at 1 pm, and my French class was canceled, so Nisa and I planned to go look for fabric that afternoon. We, along with her boyfriend Redza, left around 3 pm and went to the Marche Saint-Pierre, where we looked for specific fabrics in Reine, Dreyfus and a few other places. After we got back, I worked on planning out how much fabric I would need for my bag, not only for the outside pieces, but also for the inner layer of jersey and the gauze backing certain pieces of it. I also drew up another version of the bag, where the lines on the side panels were more curvy and less an extension of the center chevrons. (Somehow, this bag seems more promising than Jen's bag. I don't know why, maybe it's because it doesn't seem too terribly complicated.)
I'm going to ask Muriel tomorrow about what I should potentially look for (a letter? an email?) in response to my internship requests, and also how long it usually takes to get an answer...