Year Two Week Ten

 Week Ten 

This week in pattern cutting I continued to work on my toile sewing the collar together, I found this shape has worked well to reflect my design but it is slightly not long enough. To make this work I will alter the pattern and make it wider to fit around the whole neck. I’m not sure why it is not wide enough to fit the whole neck but I will measure these both again to work out how much more I need to add. I also continued to unpick the wedding dress, detaching the two skirt layers from the bodice. I found unpicking the lace layer from the bodice to be challenging as it is sewn in many places and the beads on this layer come off easily so some of these have fallen off whilst unpicking. However, these fallen beads do not affect my design and I think the roughened dress will not be affected by these missing as of the style. 

In the textiles lesson this week we worked on portfolio, and I clarified my moodboard for the personal project- tutu that I made. This was useful as it’s helped me to set up the beginning of this page and help to inspire me for the photoshoot I planned for the next Monday. 

I worked on my next page pulling work from my sustainability sketchbook to see what I can use for this page. I decided to pull some of the initial designs and re illustrate them to make them of a higher quality and so they fit into my page better. I decided to cut up my final garment for this page as I havnt done this yet and I felt it will make the page stand out better and to ensure my pages don’t get repetitive. I am finding this page challenging to do as I feel like it has been a bit of a struggle to get the elements of this page to work together and show the journey of me making this garment. 

In photography I shot my white shirt and my garment in the group architecture project. I feel that my white shirt has worked well especially in the photographs. The way I have shot this shirt has made the sleeves stand out and look overly big at the top with volume, the way I wanted it too. I like the way that the netting is coming out of the slit in the top of the leg-of-mutton  as it shows the structural elements. I think the dark great background has also helped to make my shirt stand out as of the contrast against the white. One of the tutors asked another class to guess what the pathway I want to go into is based off of my white shirt and they said costume so this proves my white shirt is working and clear what I want to go into based on the historical side.