Tuesday, 13 March 2012

time to get stitching

For the afternoon session of costume store, I decided to follow my original plan by going over the entire garment again for construction techniques I may have missed and then write down in order the best way to go about making the garment. once this was cleared by Dexter I made a start on the garment. The first stage was to attach the yoke to the shirt, this i found simple as i have previously made a shirt with a yoke before, however im still unsure about my top stitching. After this i needed to attach the placket to the front of the shirt. This was quite fiddly to do as i had to cut the opening just right so that the fabric did not stretch. I was able to make the correct snip on one side of the placket opening however I was 1mm out on the other side and this unfortunetly meant that the fabric stretched a bit to far. I rectified this by using a bit of my seam allowance to accommodate the additional length and pressed the placket securely down so it would not fray.  Within the next couple of days I am planning on completing the pleating on the sleeves, placing the gussets  and hopefully pressing and over locking the relevant seams.

Below is the shirt I am creating, along with relevant seams and garment parts







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