Week Five.

Week five

This week in pattern we started to construct our skirt toile. I found this really rewarding to do and I’m proud of what I have achieved, although it was difficult as I have sewn a skirt before or anything up to a technical standard.

I started this session by overlocking all edges except for where the waistband will go. As this was only my second time using the overlocker machine, I was still a bit unsure of how to make sure I don’t cut too much off with the blade on the machine, this made my seam allowance a bit smaller than I had planned. Towards the end of using the machine as I got more used to it and comfortable I adjusted to where I should place the fabric to ensure I don’t cut too much of off my skirt pieces. I learnt for the splits where it creates a diagonal line down to do the overlocking in two parts- the first for the first corner then the second part in one straight down towards the hem, I found this tricky as when doing this I would catch the corner on the blade which created holes in my fabric. However, this wasn't too much of an issue as it is in my seam allowance. 

After that we stitched the darts by folding the fabric into a triangle and sewing it. Once we had finished sewing that line, we sewed off the edge and tied the loose threads together instead of reverse stitching until we are confident in our sewing.

When sewing the seams together I realised as on the overlocked I accidentally cut off too much fabric that I would need to make my seam allowance slightly smaller so when sewing the seams I took this into consideration. 

Next, I constructed the mitered corners at home, whilst doing this I found YouTube videos to be helpful as I got a demonstration of what I was meant to do whilst hearing instructions as well, so it was easier to follow the instructions step by step. Overall, I think these turned out well done as the corners are neat and I made a nice edge. I also top-stitched my hem which turned out well as its a straight row of stitching. 

When sewing the placket to my skirt I got confused on which side when the left side up, so this meant that I had drew and pressed the displaced seam on the wrong side. After asking a colleague for advice I understood what I had to do when I got home to finish it. 

 

In Computing this week, I learnt how to edit photographs in photoshop by adjusting this like exposure, saturation and gradient. I found this really helpful as I have never used photoshop in this way before and it will really help me to develop my photography work.  

In textiles I continued to create mark making drawings, I focused on Ink and

Bleach as I am really interested din the colour and texture it creates. I also continued to mono- print in my textiles lesson for another chosen topic of the brief; insects. I learnt that the ink with transfer through from multiple layers of fabric. I liked this as I could created textures background then to develop them print onto them. I was inspired by Jacquie Parkinson use of bright colours to do this.

This week in photography we photographed Bauhaus hats that we had made out of Photograms we had made in previous lessons. I got to be the photographer and a model for someone else. I preferred photographing.