Year Two Week Eight

 Week Eight 

In the last week during half term, I’d decided to make my personal project as I had interrupted days where I could make this in one go. I decided to make a tutu as this is something I would be interested in learning how to at University if my course allows this. I thought because of this if I create a tutu which I know would need improvement as I was self learning this it would give me a good talking point for the portfolio page. Before stating this project I made sure to research into how to make a tutu through watching videos on multiple platforms and reading into the steps on websites. This was helpful as it helped me to gather different makers opens on how to make it and to find the similarities that they all use, to understand the base steps. When cutting out the fabric I decided to mark a piece of large pattern paper with the measurements to help me get these accurately as I need to cut lots of layers of each measurement. I found gathering the tulle layers of this tutu challenging as when pulling the gathered stitched through they kept on breaking,  this could have been as if the quality of the thread. So I then had to pleat the tulle which was time consuming as there was metres to pleat into the small fabric band.  Once I had sewn each layer top the fabric band from the bottom to the top I put it on the mannequin and inserted the boning hoop into the channel I sewd. I then tacked down the layers in groups of three to eliminate some of the volume making it into more of a pancake tutu.  When pressing it from the bottom up I could see this really taking place as of the layers flattened. I think that overall this has worked well as of the way it doesn’t completely fall and holds some shape and it gives me a starting point on tutus that would be nice to develop in the future. 

In pattern cutting, I made and seed in my sleeves. I was confident in both these sleeves after doing them multiple times. Making sure to pull the elastic tight enough it will fit to the arm but not tight enough that it’s too fitted and uncomfortable. 

In this week I made a portfolio page on textiles, selecting the work I feel flows together and shows off skills. I also like how this shows I can work in a sketchbook.  

I also photographed my colour dress styling it to look 60s as this was my idea behind this dress. I think this was successful as people could tell the idea and the style of hair and poses help to show this.