Final Major Project - The Magnificence Of The Under World: May 2014

Appliqué madness

For the main element of my garment I am creatin individual ruffles which I will bead and ssew my print on to!

To create these I cut out random wavy shapes in two different materials. The dark blue one would be cut slightly bigger than the light blue fabric so I could bondaweb them together! I created loads and loads of these so I could gather 4 individually and sew them together to create this

This one also has my print appliquéd on to it! I am also beading about 6 of these and in total I will have about 17/18 individual ruffles each with 8 pieces of fabric on each one.

This is a ruffle with my print and hand beaded by me.

This is just a rough idea of what it will look like but I am not showing you the finished results yet!!!!

Final toile

Once I had drafted all the pieces I needed I made a toile up in calico to make sure it worked how I wanted it to and I am super pleased with myself and the outcome of my design!

Sleeve time!!

To create my sleeve I used a basic sleeve block and manipulated the pattern to create a gathered sleeve.

I sectioned it off at the top on the shoulder into 4 sections, if you measured it all the way down to the cuff they would be equal sections!

I then cut the pieces out and placed them further up playing about with them to see how full I would want the shoulder to be.

Once that was stuck down I re shaped it at the top again ...

Once I had made the pattern I cut it out and made it up in fabric and this was the outcome!

Luckily It worked first time and I was super super pleased!!

Moving on to the skirt...

To create the skirt I used a basic dress bodice block. I used the bottom half shaping it to a point so my skirt would come to a point below the waist at the front and the back.

i split it into 3 sections measured it and then did the same on the back ....

I then cut and split them, placed them onto a clean piece of paper an measured equally between each section and shaped the panel of the skirt how I wanted it.

I did the same with the other pieces of the skirt too..