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.

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)

A catch up post

Update

I've been working on my log book, and mock up for my graded unit jacket.

Decided what I'm doing for it.

(1) Vertical Panel Pockets, (2) Mandarin Collar, (3) 2 Piece Sleeve (4) Contrast Stitching with white overlock and stitching.

To make it prettier on the inside as it will be unlined.

Pictured above (left is the jacket design and right is the pocket)

Also working on my Design and make dress now that the jacket is finished now.

This is being done with a size 10, as the assessment will be done in this size.

working on transferring my pattern to the calico to make the mock up

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.

First Post

Welcome to my wee blog,

This is going to be a dedicated sewing blog,

I'm working though an associate degree course in

Fashion Technology in Glasgow. and In a few years my big more to be closer to Heriot-Watt to       finish of my degree.

which is all very exciting!