Sophie’s Fashion Blog

Week Seventeen.   Over the weekend before my pattern cutting lesson I managed to sew my tops pin-tucks, pleats sewd the shoulder seams. I also managed to sew the facing to the top. In the lesson I started to add the zip, learning that I have to fully sew the facing to the top before adding the zip to the top. I learnt this after I had sewn one side so this wasn't a massive issue as I could still pass it through the shoulder gap. Once I had done this I managed to twist the zip when I was lining it up to sew it, this meant I had to unpick and resew the zip. I didn't mind doing this as it made me understand the way it should go better so in the future this hopefully wont happen again. Overall, I think my zip has turned out neatly as you can see the zip tape making it invisible. To finish off my top, I made bias binding this was useful to do as I have only properly- other than a sample- made it twice so it made me think throw how I should do it. I found to sew it to my top simple b...

 Week Sixteen.  In Pattern cutting this week, I cut out my fabrics and overlocked them. This made me learn how to use the industrial over-locker which is useful as now if the other one is busy I can use this or if needed that colour I can. This was also useful to use as this is what they use in industry and I already know how to use this.  When cutting out my fabric for my final top I made sure to cut it with as least waste as possible, learning to be less wasteful. This made me think about where I should place the pattern pieces to do this.  At home, the weekend before the lesson, I managed to finish of my toile learning that some of the facing wasn't quite the right size so I amended this for my final outcome. This made me remember that the facing should be the same length on the front and back so that they line up and look neater. I also learnt that not not heavily iron the front pin-tucks as it gives them a flat look rather than a flowy look to the change in dire...

Week Fifteen. This week was the first week back from Christmas holidays and we started by looking at and amending our mood boards. This made me learn that I stuck too many pictures of tops onto my mood board that it was slightly overcrowded and featured too many pictures of other work. This helped me to make a new mood board and think about what I could do for my next mood board for my next project to make this more developed. We also started to think about what samples to make to help us with our designing process. This made me think about different types of pleats and pin-tucks which I could feature in my designs. This made me learn how to make the pattern for each of these which has led me to becoming more confident in this skill. I made a pattern for inverted and normal box pleat as I wanted to be able to see and hold the difference in these. I preferred the box pleat as you can physically see the box shape which I prefer. I also learnt how to pin-tuck, I wanted to do this as...