Pattern cutting- 5

Attaching the sleeve- Continued

Making sure the sleeve piece is placed and pinned in correctly 

A stitch is needed in the middle of the two loose(seen in previous post)

When done, the loose tacking needs to be unpicked and the top of the sleeve needs to be over locked

 Heres what an attached sleeve looks like

Attaching sides together

Both sides need to be alined together making sure both under arms are join together as this is a vital part of the procedure! When stitching you must make sure the pleat is laying flat down otherwise it will create bulk which is not what we want. The stitch needs to be a 1cm seam allowance all the way along and across the sleeve. 

Next step after the 1cm seam allowance is to over lock the sides

Skirt

When taking the pattern piece off my material I faced a problem of my material not matching up which meant I needed to solve the problem by realigning the fabric and the pattern piece and cutting away any access fabric

Pleats

To add the pleats you need to look at your draft of the pattern to find out which way the pleats were folded and join the notches together and place a pin in to hold it in place, you then need to a 0.5cm stitch from the top across the pleats to hold them in place.

Attaching the skirt

Attaching the skirt is easier than it looks! You have to join the two seams together making sure it isn't the zip seam like I did the first time! And pin the fabric to the dress and stitch a 1cm seam all the way around.

Dress so far...

Im happy I chose to add pleats on the back as well as it gives the dress more volume and makes it have more detail which I think works well.

But I think if I was to revisit this dress when patterning I would make the dress pieces smaller so that it was shorter as I think the length is a little long. I think I would also reconsider the size of the pockets as they are ridiculously small and I would like them to be more of a feature. 

Putting a heam on the sleeve

Because my fabric was fraying a lot I had to fold my fabric over 1cm x2 and iron it all the way around on both sides

Then on the inside of the sleeve I had to get close as possible to the edge of the seam and stitch all the way around- to do this you have to go slowly.. trust me!

And a completed sleeve! Now all that is left is the facing and we are completed finally! I feel like I have been saying that for weeks haha.

oxo