Week Eleven.

 Week Eleven.


This week in pattern cutting I started out by finalising my skirt toile and making sure it fit the manikin. When I was happy with this I cut out my fabrics ensuring this was done to produce the least amount of fabric wastage. 





At home after the lesson I started to construct my skirt, starting by overclocking it to ensure it doesn't fray. I managed to connect all my panels together, leaving the left as worn side so I could add in the zip. I am happy with my progress as I got a lot done and it will be manageable to fit this in within my time frame. I stopped making my skirt here this week so I had enough time to work on our textile side of the brief as well. 


In textiles this week I explored how to use heat transfer paper, this will be useful so I can transfer my digitally arrange patterns onto fabric. I enjoyed doing this as i embroidered into them suing a machine and also made them into a quilt like sample. I also finished off transferring my transfer paint samples which turned out well because of their vibrant colours. 




I really enjoyed Stretch this week as I constructed a toile bodest of what I want the top of my costume to look like. This is a corset bodest without the boning so the dancers would still be able to move comfortably. This was challenging too make as i have never sewn from an already made pattern and there was a lot of panels, however, this was really rewarding once I had finished it. I experimented with different fastenings , I chose to use hooks and eyes as this is what they use in their costumes so they're wearable for multiple people. 





In CAD I finalised my design for my wrapping paper, I think this looks good as I have neutral tones and fluid sketchy lines in my design which i think work well together. 

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