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The March Hare shirt construction has begun a few days ago beginning with drawing out a basic block shirt pattern and converting it to my actresses measurements. The shirt comprises of a front and back, sleeves, collar and stand along with cuffs. Matching up the pattern was originally tricky however after the third time I got a match and the pattern was continuous. I found that as the material was quite light it puckered easily under the sewing machines tension, so I had to be careful with the amount of handling on the fabric. I also originally struggled with the collar. However after speaking to Mandy, one of our lecturers, I realised that though the shirt had a built in collar stand it wasn't doing its job.  So to rectify this I measured along the shirts edge where the collar was supposed to be and built a collar stand which would sit along this line. I also shrank the collar by 0.5 each side to accommodate the new collar stand. This garment though simple stumped me in many ways and it took me time to problem solve the collar. As well as this I would have liked the button holes to be slightly smaller, however I had an issue with the sewing machine where the buttonhole system wasn't working, so I had to use a zig zag stitch and create them one at a time freehand.

I am happy with the way this garment has come out, however I feel that garment construction may not be my path any longer. I seem to be a lot more competent and confident with teaching and within a workshop environment.