Latex Workshop berlin (more photos of the garment to come after it's been properly cleaned)

Been back a couple of weeks now,
I had a great time
when I was away I did a course with LatexWorkShops
The organizer was so lovely and very damn patient.

We started at half 8, doing some examples of how to bond latex, straight, on curves and doing ruffles.
How to add buttons and how to fix patches.


Then I got to make my very own paneled dress, for that I made my own pattern and then went to marking it up on the latex and cutting it out.


Once I had done that it was a case of cleaning the seams I needed to glue, this was interesting because on normal garments you always put things right sides together but with latex garments your places wrong side to right side because you see the seam on the outside and it lays flat.

then waiting till that was dry (which is important)  then applying glue to those clean edges then letting them dry till tacky then attaching all your pieces together.


I do not recommend having long nails for this at all (I'm never usually one to have long nails but I just sorta let them grow up and I found attaching the garment together hard till I cut them with scissors cause you really need to be able to feel the garment more than look at it when binding it together.

It took me a whole day to make this beauty (with help)
But I finally made it, had a well-deserved pizza and chill afterward.


Now I'm on the hunt for sheets of latex to buy!
so I can make more things
Can't wait to make more latex things!!

2nd last day of class.

Design and make project work

I felt today was super productive, 

(1) started and finished my dress with some tweaks to the patterns and finished my jacket 

Tweaks on dress:

1. I was originally going to have the zip on the side, even without sleeves this would be really impractical to get into, but with sleeves it's pretty much near to impossible.
2. So because of this I move the zip to the back of the garment, and because of this I had to make a new neck facing hold my old one in half draw another pattern and add a 1 cm seam to the cut edge to allow room for the zip.  The back patterns both skirt and top half had to have a 1 cm attached also.
3. I also learned while making my mock up that the front neck facing and front neck, will need fused in order to make sure it sits right and also to make sure it doesn't stretch this could also be attached with plastic boning as well as with fusing.  Both would also work.           
4. The sleeves didn't turn out how I imagined they would either, so for the actual garment i'm going to make them shorter and flare more.

 

picture above of me sewing the one piece sleeve.

Lined denim jacket:

I'm really happy with the outcome of the jacket, I love the flare in it, I think when I make it again, I am going to make fusing higher up on the bottom part cause I love the structure of it, but i'd love to make it even more dramatic!

I think i'd also add 2 or more buttons under the one I have currently on it.

I want to get out of the habit of using only one button on my jackets.