Design Development

Here are a couple of pictures of the design development I have been doing over the last couple of weeks for my final garment 

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CAD- 3

THE SKIRT

My first attempt

My second attempt- here I upped my scale and made them larger as I need to work on the scale of my drawings!

When we are using Illustrator we use a book by Kevin Tallon called Creative Fashion Design With Illustrator which is really helpful and gives you a step by step guide on how to make different things!I need to get my hands on my own copy

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Pattern cutting- 6

Topstitch around the skirt

Here I just did a stitch all the way around the skirt to give it a nice finish, it was a normal stitch as close to the edge as possible.

The facing

Firstly you have to attach interfacing to the facing pieces by cutting out the same sizes as your pattern pieces. Then iron them onto the wrong side of the fabric. Once thats complete a simple overlock of all the sides besides the top needs to be done 

When the previous step has been carried out on all 3 pieces need to be attached by a 1 cm seam allowance right down the corners

It should fold up like this and look like this open...

Press open the seams to create an open seam

The next time I do a facing for a garment I am going to put it together in a different way so that it is all levelled out correctly.

The next for the facing is having to attach both corners of the facing to the zips using a half zipper foot

You have to pin the facing to the garment just like attaching the skirt to the dress.

Finished facing

When I put the finished dress on the manikin I noticed that there was a fault with my zip and I think it was because of the manufacturing of my zip as the material wasnt the best to apply it to. To adjust this all I needed to do was unfold the facing a re stitch a bit more the zip under.

Completed facing

Adjusted zip

MY COMPLETED 60's STYLE DRESS

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Its Saturday in America

So all over my Tv recently has been how the British girl brand 'The Saturdays' are taking on America, Ive always been a fan of the girl group and I think they are always styled very contemporary and immaculately! 

I came across these images of them in there 1st photo shoot over in the states and I just think they look incredible, for insistence Rochelle on the right hand side is pregnant and you would have never of guessed. I would love to know who there stylist is!!

One of my favourite images from there shoot has to be this one of Mollie as I think her dress is amazing and she looks really fierce and sophisticated. Her dress really makes the image as its so detailed it reminds me of Loannis Ditmitrousis work, he is a Fashion/Textile designer who's work is very knit based and has a very integrate way of adding tassels and different knits to his designs.

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Painting shoot planning- 1

Experimenting / Making the garment 

The Dancer Moa

Building the scarf

Adding the green patch 

£5 coat from a charity shop... BARGIN

Sleeve block

The sleeve I made

1st patch

Scarf

Colour

Adding some knots

How I left it today, adjustments to be made tomorrow

Today I have spent all day making this for my shoot tomorrow, I have still got to make some adjustments as I'm not over the moon with the outcome at the moment but I will be able to do that tomorrow. Ive also been planning how to have the hair and make up which has been fun and I'm sure my sister is sick of me using her as a model for that now! haha. I am looking forward to working with the photographers tomorrow as I think it will be a challenge, which I like. Up to know I'm all sorted but my list seems to be getting bigger every time I think of something knew. Fingers crossed I don't forget anything. Ill keep you posted on how it goes, Wish me luck... 

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