The Mom’s Weekend Fashion Show, the culmination of the AMT 412 class, was a week and a half away, and the classroom showed it.

Apparel, merchandising, design and textiles students sat sporadically at tables lining the wall, gossiping and laughing as they cut out patterns and sewed fabric together to finish the project they had been working on since fall.

Two sections of the class meet twice a week to prepare for the annual fashion show. Class time in recent weeks has been spent working on the designers’ fourth and final outfit in their collections.

Each outfit is worth 300 points, and months are spent designing, sewing and modeling each one. The fashion show is the capstone project for fashion design majors, and AMT 412 is made specifically for it.

“We were starting to develop our ideas last semester,” senior AMDT major Kayla Boehme said. “We started with just sketching and talking with the class and got feedback. A lot of people’s minds change. My ideas change as I’m going.” At the end of fall semester, the students pick their models and start fitting their garment patterns. Then they make mock-ups of the clothing and correct problems they foresee.

The students have to find the fabric they intend to use, usually online, and then pay for all of it out-of-pocket.

Anni Woo, a senior AMDT major, spent $35 dollars a yard on 10 yards for the plaid 100 percent wool she is using in her line.

Her class time was spent cutting fabric into the pants pattern she created earlier in the year.

“These are going to be equestrian with plaid,” she said. “My stuff is inspired by punk clothing and equestrian clothing. I wanted to do something weird, and I think they will look really fun together.” Jennifer Infanger, an AMDT instructor, came to class a bit late with a stack of handouts.

She listed the tasks they had to remember, which included e-mailing a graphic that represented the aura of their collection, fittings for outfit four and note cards describing each designer’s individual outfits.

The fashion show comes after four years of hard work for many of the students. Boehme said her introductory classes taught her the sewing basics she could expand on for the capstone class. She, like some students, was not always a fashion design major, however.

“I was a communication major before,” she said. “I just didn’t see any relevancy in my life, and I always wanted to do design. I decided to do what I love.” Beth Sheldon, a senior AMDT major, said she figured she could always transfer out of the program if she didn’t like it, but she knew she had to at least try.

“I knew I wanted to do something more on the creative side,” Sheldon said. “I ended up really liking the program.” Woo said she randomly took one of the introductory classes and ended up sticking with the program.

“I originally came for architecture. It was fun but a lot of work,” she said. “I never really used a sewing machine until I came into the classroom. It came easy.” All the budding designers appeared cheerful despite the fact that some student’s fabrics have yet to arrive.

The work does not end with the culmination of the fashion show for the students. After the fashion show, they will work on their portfolios. For Boehme, this class is just the beginning of a long career in fashion.

“I could contact big corporations for internships or small designers,” she said. “It’s all networking and getting to know people.”