Sophie’s Fashion Blog

Blog Week Nine.   In pattern cutting this week, we started by making poppies for Remembrance Day. We did this by gather fabric to create a circle shape and adding a black button. When cutting out our patterns for this, we thought about how to cut them out to be more sustainable and cost effective. I liked doing this as it made me think about how I can successfully conserve fabric when cutting out, this will also help when we complete group projects so we as a group can place patterns in a way that wastes less fabric.   We also learnt about different types of pleats; knife, inverted box and box pleats. I also learnt about yokes and where to find them. I found being taught how to construct these techniques helpful as I have never constructed them before. I found making these into a pattern complicated, but once I thought it through and thought about the shapes of what I was trying to make I was able to make a successful pattern. This week we made designs for our liberty ...

Week Eight This week in pattern cutting we learnt lots of different techniques to create different skirts. We learnt how to create a pattern for a panelled skirt and a gored skirt. We also learnt how to develop this to create a godet. To created the panelled skirt we started by tracing our skirt block. We then, to add flair, extended the line that runs 90 degrees from the darts. You would need to extend this by how much flair you want to add to the bottom. You then need to add flair to the to the side seam panel. You then need to trace Around the pattern splitting it into two, don’t include the dart into this pattern. We also looked at a gored skirt pattern, where we really had to look at the measurements and the dimensions of the body and block skirt. We decided to create our pattern with a eight panels for our skirt. To make sure it would fit the body we divided the waist measurement by 8, the hip measurement by 8, and how wide we want the skirt flared to be at the body by 8....

Week Seven. This week we constructed our A-Line skirts in pattern cutting. This was the first time I have done this. We constructed the main portion of the skirt in the lesson then completed the rest of it in our own time at home. We made our full scale pattern and cut it out onto fabric and interfacing ready for our lesson on Monday, where we started by overlocking the side seam so the skirt. This turned out better than last time, as I managed to not shave off any of the fabric so my seam allowances were accurate.  Next we attached the conceal zip using a conceal zip foot, this was my first time using this and I like how it hugs over the zip teeth to hold it in place. To sew along the seam allowance we pressed the fabric so when it laid flat it have a groove of 1.5cm to act as a guide. I found this really helpful to sew accurately and I will use this in the future when sewing.  When sewing the zip we sew from the top down so that the zip pull is on the right side up. We made ...