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My perfect bag (or the closest i've come to it)

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Roma + the return of Marshmallow

My gluten free pizza came with a german flag on it?

Whoops,

Looks like I spent yet another night knitting and watching freaks and geeks, and instructional videos about knitting... However today was unique in that I did not make/consume polenta for the first time in a week. Pictures of the newest hat tomorrow (its done!). 

But in the meantime, let me recommend you some wonderful instructional videos about knitting, narrated by a lovely british girl:

Wool And The Gang

My weekend:

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Mmmmhhmmm, but to my credit, I did do real things as well. Card night with quite a gang, found the best coffee shop in florence, vip treatment at 'space,' family dinner, heart-to-heart in the middle of the street, and amelie. I have a renewed urge to chop off all my hair, dye it black and start wearing clunky black shoes. We are already the same person, I'm just missing the look. The hat is in the color of caval nero. Not with this crap lighting though, got to love the glow of the computer screen off to the side. I am obsessed with knitting, but to my credit I started this one on friday.

Footwear Midterm: Design for Dominatrixes

I am pretty pleased with these two. Originally I had three designs draw up during the test, but two out of the three aint bad. Right now it's all about: colorblocking, bold/chunky/statement, and dominatrixes. It's funny though, beside the colorblocking, none of that is very typical style inspiration for me. Or at least its never in the front of my mind. Just sharing the shoe-love, enjoy! (click to see bigger images)

This week in review: Part I

This is the first of what will hopefully be a whole slew of photo-posts from this past week. To say the least, I had a great fall break. From last weekend:

Comfort foods

It has been too long.

(purposeful)

Last week(end): before the next one gets ahead of me!

Chestnut flour crepe anyone?

My Collection

The only class I try/enjoy: Footwear

Here's my collection for class last week. The design student in me got all digital with the assignment.

shoe collection

As i've mentioned before, one of the few classes here that I really enjoy is my footwear design class. This past week we got the wonderful opportunity to visit the 'last' factory, where they manufacture the lasts, which are models used in the construction of shoes. They kind of serve as a hard plastic model of the foot. Being the industrial design nerd that I am, this trip just made me giddy. I love getting a sneak peak into manufacturing. Here are some photos from the visit:

Shaping the first wooden prototypes for production.

Wooden prototypes, they use both additive and reductive methods.

Lots of lasts, mid production

Food and flea markets

 More after the jump!