Emma Grace Gerrard

Upon returning to Uni after the Easter holiday I found out that I had pleated my tutu entirely wrong. I was upset that I had made such a huge mistake and misunderstood the instructions, especially as I struggled with the work over the holiday due to family circumstances. When I came to do the pleating I was a little confused how to do it so I emailed other members of the group, I tried researching on the Internet and I looked at photographs I took of a tutu in one of the workshops all to try and help me understand. I thought I understood how to do this and proceeded to construct the tutu. I would have phoned my tutor but I did not have his home phone number.

From my mistake I have learnt that I needed to try and recognize that I am doing something wrong before I go too far and think of other ways in which I could find out what to do. One way I could do this if it is possible or available is to find a primary research of the costume to look at to see how it is done.

Due to time restraints and deadlines I will be unable to unpick and re-pleat my tutu meaning I will have to do it in the summer. However if I do have enough time before the fitting I will try to re-do this and just hope that I get it right the second time. I hope I do get time to do this because I do not like the idea of handing in something that is wrong, especially when it is intended for a client. I feel really irritated with myself for making this mistake and putting more work on myself when I am already struggling. When I do correct my mistake I will at least learn how to pleat correctly.