First time making a hood for a jacket (Marluxia's Organisation 13 Jacket)

Making a hood

I was excited and also nervous about making this.

I've never made a hood before for a jacket, and I couldn't find my pattern reference book I got in my NC year for a guide. 

Below is the original pattern piece,  after making the paper copy

I used this reference from Pinterest as a rough guide after making an attempt myself, though it ended up looking more like a space helmet/traditional dutch hat.

After looking at this I noticed that it didn't need to curve in at the top, and came up with this and made a mock up,

after the mock up I noticed It was better for the design to have a godet in the middle to round of the hood.  (5cm godet)

Here is a very rough idea of the hood design

(I tried to work the drawing tablet and gave up for the mouse so do excuse the drawing)

notches: I notched to match where the half way point is on the hood 

(17.78 cm to separate the hood and the heads extended shape)

in hindsight: I would have notches the godet part of the hood a few times to balance out the hood.

Also in hindsight: more images for blogging.

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.

The last leg of my first year of college.

I've just finished my Graded unit last week

notes are all done now (more or less)

I found it was good as long as I kept taking notes, and photograhs of the progress

here is some below:

this is the unlined jacket I done before it was all put together I overlocked the garment but I think i'm going to make another jacket but binding the edges instead for a better finish

I really like how it looks inside out (I decided to go with copying part of the front pattern for my faces, and I was a bit unsure how it was going to sit at first but i really like it would work I think if bindinded both ways, I think I could make a really funky jacket with this.

Last but not least, the final garment, I used an blind stitcher to finish the sleeves and hem and I found this alot neater than blind stitching by hand  

(below is the blind stitching and the finished jacket)

wee outfit

 I put together my final pieces from last year (the shirt and skirt, along with a jacket I made this years course) and added a wee hat to go with (from Mr bens shop in Glasgow)

I think it's rather cute can't wait to get a wee model picture of it though.

I really like how the high waist and lower cut shirt work together and balance out well.

I aim to try post alittle more next week, 3 assessments this past week and a hand in so very tired me.

denim jacket

Going to try and update my blog every Sunday
*rocky montage music*

So been working on making my partner in crime a denim jacket.  It's been put together with lots of scrap denim from old jeans.  The front pocket's are jean patch pockets.
Taken from a rough sketch I put together with him and measurements.
Probably going to be a light summer jacket, so will bind the edges on the inside for a clean finish.
Just need to do the collar and some minor fixes with the fastening details.

New pattern cutting table and making an awesome wee creative space.

Finally got a wee table for pattern cutting down the west end in Glasgow

(£15 from The Salvation Army Store)

 a really good bargain!

After trapping myself in the living room, me and my partner in crime, took it apart and put it back together.

it also slides out to extend the table by maybe about roughly 40 cm.

and it just seems to fit in perfectly to the room

My wee creative space for working has really come together

(the mannequin is just off side from this picture)

all the happy creative vibes

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