Friday, 26 November 2010

Creation Begins - Mock up

When deciding on a design in our group we combined our ideas and developed them into a final design, which was able to show all of our initial thoughts and ideas in a high standard. This can be seen through the post about creating our final design.

CREATING AND EXPERIMENTING WITH OUR DESIGN
Firstly we traced the patterns from the block. We then changed the darts, we slashed and opened our pattern pieces so that we were able widen our front dress piece. Also on the front dress pattern we straightened the side seam so that the dress would not be fitted but instead straight down on the body. We also did this to the back pattern piece so that it was also widened.

CREATING THE TUNNEL- DROP HOLE
The front pattern piece could not be cut on the fold as the two holes, which are going to be used as pockets have different panels so we therefore had to cut the front pattern piece twice.

We then created the 20x20cm square twice and cut out a hole which is big enough for the hand to pass through. This is then pinned onto the front two panel pieces and these are then pinned to a manikin. From each square cut out we drew the lines off each one so that the panel shapes could be created.




We then inserted a paper tube inside the holes, then cut down the down tube following the panel lines on the square. This then created a new pattern piece, which included the tube, which had been inserted, and the front bodice panels.


We then redid the pattern pieces so that they were neat and easier to follow. Once all of the patterns were redrawn we cut out the patterns onto cotton.

When sewing them together care had to be taken as the tubes had to match up for the pockets to fall correctly when the dress was completed.

The panels once sewn together
 Front view



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