Finishing coat edges/hems...

Because I don't have time to line the whole coat, I have decided that I would just face instead to save time. This is also a way to neaten the edges.

Facing for the coat.

I have also hemmed the coat by 3cm then hand tacking it in place.

(reducing bulk then turning it inside)

(hand tacking it in place)

Continuing Michiko coat toile....

Attaching the Fish Fin

• I drew the design line where I wanted it to be on the side of the coat. I then measured the line with measuring tape (46cm).

•  Now I measured the 46cm on the calico, I then cut out out a semi-circle and pinned it where I drew the design line.

• The length was a little long so I trimmed it and took it off to draw pattern from it.

• I now made a pattern from the shape but it half so that I can just cut it on fold.

• I cut out 2 of the pattern in calico then sew the top with 1.5cm seam allowance.

• I trimmed the seam in half to reduce bulk the turned it right way round.

• Sew the fish fin pattern on the coat where I drew the design line earlier on. Note: I have to bias bind the edges on my real garment.

 Here is what it looks like when I finished sewing it on the coat.

Aiko Dress Spec Drawing...

I have finally finished the last dress for my collection and it's the Aiko dress. All I need to do now is to add the fabric swatches to all of my spec drawing to complete it.

Jin Youzhi Dress Spec Drawing....

This is the Jin Youzhi Dress spec drawing that I have finished today. I have another dress to finish before I can complete this FMP unit. I am hoping to finish it before tomorrow so that I can hand this unit in for marking.

Jia Li Dress Spec Drawing....

Today I have completed another spec drawing for one of my unit and it's the Jia Li dress that is part o my collection. It took me quite a while to create the spec drawing because of the chain details at the back but I'm happy with the outcome. 

Collar disaster....

Today I have finally attached the collar and faced my michiko coat. Last week I made up this collar that I was proud of but today when I tried to sew it on to the coat it turns out that it was too long so it didn't fit the neckline because I only made up the measurements and shape of the collar.

So I have created a new pattern and made the new collar for my coat.

This is what I did to create my new collar pattern.

• I took the front and back patterns (with neckline) and stuck them together on the shoulder seam. Then I took the tape measurement and measured the neckline from the red line on the button stand along the orange line and to the red line at the back. (30.5cm)

•  I then drew the 30.5cm measurement on the tracing paper the decided what the width neasurement is which 9cm. I then conected the lines together creating a rectangle shape.

• Then I cut out the shape and added 3 slashes on one to create the curve shape of the collar.

• I re-traced the shape out then added seam allowace around except from the centre back because it's cut on fold. I added all the information as well like grainline, my name and pattern name etc.

 Now that I have created the pattern I can now cut it out in calico/fabric.

• I've cut the pattern in fabric/calico x2.

• I then sew along the top edge of the collar piece with 1.5cm seam allowance, trimmed it in half then turned it inside out.

• I attached the collar piece to the coat with 1.5cm seam allowance.

Shoulder sampling....

I had to sample similar type of garment that has the effect and outcome that I wanted for the shoulders of my coat. I found this Vintage Vogue Pattern and I thought that the shoulders was similar to my design so I pattern it and made it in calico. Here is what I have made.  

It wasn't quite the effect that I was looking for so I sampled some other method to get the effect that I am looking for. On my FMP sketchbook, I sampled a method that could work well with the shoulder area. The shape was inspired by the Sydney opera house that I experimented on my sketchbook.

Here is what it looks like on the coat. I will need to hand sew it to the coat insteadd of the sewing machine considering my target market.

I think this method looks better than the first one so I'm going to choose this method for the shoulder.