Pattern cutting-3

Continuing our 60s dress was todays task which meant I was ready to start manufacturing as I had cut out all my pattern pieces from my material.

Before cutting the pieces out I had to pin the pattern in the right places on the material.

 Manufacturing

1. Sewing the dart- to do this it meant joining the two notches together and stitching down towards the dot drawn from where the pin was place on the pattern piece making sure you come of the fabric with the stitching at the dot point.

 Finished darts

 2. Patch pocket when it came to manufactoring the lined patch pocket we realised that we hadnt cut out the lining, I used just the left over from my black material- to do this I just used the pocket pattern piece and drew around it and cut it out, simples.

To make sure we places the pockets in the right place on the front of the garment we had to pin the pattern piece onto the material and place pins in the corners of the pocket which then allowed me to draw dots with tailors chalk for guide lines

Final pockets

Attaching the pockets- well it was tricky at first but after my 2nd/3rd attempt it got better and I felt a lot happier with them rather than my first attempt!! I have figured from todays lesson that the fabric I have chosen isn't actually the best and isn't really that easy to work with as it pulls quite a lot, so next time I will defiantly consider what fabric I use a lot more and make sure it is more sustainable and hard wearing as nobody wants a dress that falls a part right?!

I got up to stitching of the zip on the back panels but I ran out of time and will have to finish off next week- hopefully Ill have a finished dress then yay.. 1/2 a dress down 5 1/2 to go wooo

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*PLEASE IGNOR MY RUBBISH PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY THE LIGHT AND MY CAMERA OBVIOUSLY DIDNT AGREE!!