Haute Couture is where it's at
Join us all month long as we post challenges based on the exclusive and often trend-setting designs that we call Fashion.
A new Blue Plate Special challenge is posted each Monday (sketch), Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Participants have until the 3rd of the following month to complete and post their creations in the Cookin' up Creations Gallery.
Prize will be a $20 Gift Certificate to their Favorite online store (random drawing).....
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE:
The last challenge for 2023. Today, for fashion week/ month we are going to be looking at the age-old gingham pattern. I still have two table cloths(a red and a green gingham), made around 55years ago and still fashionable today
Gingham is a fabric made from dyed cotton yarn .
The name is Malay in origin, coming into the English language via Dutch. When originally imported (in the 17th century), it was a striped fabric, but from the mid-18th century, when it was being produced in the mills of Manchester, it had become woven into checked plaid patterns (often blue and white).
Gingham is made of carded or combed, medium or fine yarns, where the colouring is on the warp yarns and always along the grain. Gingham has no right or wrong side regarding colour.
You still see it in the runways of Paris today.
My challenge is to create a layout in a Grid Style to represent the runways of a fashion show. Use Gingham pattern paper somewhere on your layout and either used a bunch of flowers or a camera as there is always lots of photos taken and the designers in the end usually get a bouquet of flowers.
I hope you like my example:
