Work Plan for Week 17

Week 17
Monday 29th April	Top fabric White Queen	Write personal blog Work in the arts bar 16.00-21.00
Tuesday 30th April	Top fabric White Queen Group tutorials Exhibition Planning	Exhibition Request form Work in the arts bar 16.00-21.00
Wednesday 1st May	Top fabric White Queen Tutorial	Write personal blog Disability Mentoring Work in the arts bar 16.00-21.00
Thursday 2nd May	Top fabric White Queen	Operation
Friday 3rd May	Top fabric White Queen
Saturday 4th/ Sunday 5th    May	Top fabric White Queen	Write personal blog

Second Fitting for the White Queen

Today I conducted the second fitting for the White Queen in the top Fabric. Zoe has once again gracefully stepped in as my model as her measurements are exact to my actress. We have left the sleeves out for the time being as we are going to fit these after, my main worry is the skirt and that there is not enough material in the skirt.

Before Fitting Bodice

Before Fitting Back

Before Fitting Front

Notes from Fitting:

• Add room in the arms (follow pins)
• Fix hemline at 28cm off ground all the way around the skirts circumference 
• Separate bodice and skirt into two separate garments
• Add more fabric into the back of the skirt 
• Drop waistline to 1cm off hemline (follow pins)
• Make more roses for surface decoration 
• Take darts in 1cm

Darts after fitting

Arm hole after fitting

Full length dress with detailing

After Fitting with detailing 

Skirts away

My main mission this week is to finish the skirt and try to gather as much material into it as possible. However this has proven more than a task as I need to fit 7meters of material into the skirt and where my actress is quite slim, it means a lot of pleating. I spent three days pleating the tops of the material with 1cm pleats all the way around, pinning and pleating as I went. After this they were all tacked down with a running stitch. Once all the seams were matched up, I found that there still wasn't enough material in the skirt and the crinoline could be seen through the material. As my knife pleats are each matched up, I have been told that it was not the most effective way to gather all the material. Apparently if I overlap the pleats and increase the size of them, more fabric will be retained in the skirt. Mandy, one of our lecturers has said she will demonstrate how to do this after the fitting.

Work Plan for Week 16

Week 16
Monday 22nd April	Surface Decoration White Queen Assist Midsummer Nights Dream	Write personal blog Work in the arts bar 16.00-21.00
Tuesday 23rd April	Surface Decoration White Queen Assist Midsummer Nights Dream	Write personal blog Work in the arts bar 16.00-21.00
Wednesday 24th April	Surface Decoration White Queen Tutorial Assist Midsummer Nights Dream	Write personal blog Disability Mentoring Work in the arts bar 16.00-21.00
Thursday 25th April	Surface Decoration White Queen	Work in the arts bar 16.00-21.00
Friday 26th April	Surface Decoration White Queen Teaching Workshop Fitting for White Queen	Standby Dresser for Midsummer Nights Dream
Saturday 27th/ Sunday 28th   April	Make Roses Teaching Workshop	Standby Dresser for Midsummer Nights Dream

How to make Cheese and Tomato Sandwiches

CHEESE  AND TOMATO SANDWICHES

 

To begin with, Fourteen stitches of  Fawn Double Knit 100% Acrylic Wool was cast on to 4mm knitting needles.  Twenty Five rows were knitted (using garter stitch) and then cast off.  The ends were sewn in with a wool needle to give a neat appearance.

For the cheese filling 26 stitches of Yellow 100% Acrylic Double Knit Wool were cast on, again with 4mm needles and 2 rows of garter stitch were knitted before casting off.

The three tomato pieces were made by casting on 12 stitches of Red Double Knit 100% Acrylic Wool.   The yarn is then cut leaving a long end. Sew the thread through all the stitches on the knitting needle, pull and gather up tightly then fastened off.  The end was sewn in using a wool needle. 

The sandwich is put together by placing glue on two sides of the bread piece and placing the cheese on top, pinning it to hold it in place until the glue has dried.  Remove the pins as soon as the glue has dried.

The tomato pieces are then put in place and pinned until the glue has dried.

Remove the pins that were holding the tomato in place.  Putting glue around the interior of the bread piece, fold over the bread onto the cheese and tomato.  This is held in place by 5 pins until dry.  Remove the pins once dry and this will give a nice triangular sandwich .

Finalised plate of sandwiches ready for the workshop