This autumn five of the ladies at the Mini Millbrook Project have been rolling up their sleeves and getting 'hands-on' to study for an NCFE Level 2 in Carnival craft. Over the summer they ran their own week-long workshop and entered a section in the Eastleigh. Gail had found a library book on fancy dress costumes and the main skills and equipment they used were gummy tape, glue guns, seletape, staples and basic sewing on the sewing machine.
However, being ambitious, the ladies said they wanted to develop their costumes from 'fancy dress' into 'carnival'. The CB Project has therefore funded the ladies to attend carnival training run by the Crazy Thornhill Carnival Trainers & TWICS.
The Millbrook mums and their children were set the challenge of building a section with a French theme of Art Nouveau costumes based on the prints of Alphonso Mucha. They've had to carry out research, learn lots of new techniques and tools to use and then design and build their costumes from scratch - exhausting! They've learnt how to make patterns, how to design back-packs, used new glues and both Gail and Estelle, were running up dresses on the sewing machine like there was no tomorrow.
They've done a great job and the costumes are stunning. They'll be showing them off in the Thornhill Carnival next week on Friday 12th December at 6.30.
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