FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY - 1ST PROJECT - FINAL COMPLETE SHIRT

My 1st project at university, complete!

Just a basic shirt with a shirt dress placket.

 

FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY - 1ST PROJECT - CROPPED SHIRT

Ok, so here's some photos of my cropped shirt!

Throughout the past few weeks in construction workshops

we've gone through steps of making different parts of the shirt.

 

Left: collar and front shirt placket with buttonholes.

Right: symmetrical darts in the back of the shirt.

Left: welt seam on the shoulder with slight gathers in the sleeve head.

Right: continuous shirt placket.

 

Left: side view of the garment.

Right: lap seam on the side and bust dart to the front of the shirt.

 

View of the shirt from the front.

 

I have now gone on to constuct my final shirt where I am going to include

french seams and shirt dress plackets. The theme is monochrome and I have chosen

to use black, grey, white and striped fabric!

 

TAPING - CORSETS - SESSION 2

The second technical session has been and gone and I decided to experiment one last time.

After getting the shape I wanted, I started to lift the pattern straight off the mannequin.

Pics below! :)

Here is the corset shape that I'm going to take a pattern from. I like

the symmetry on the front and think that its quite eye catching.

To get the pattern off the mannequin I've draped and pinned some material and then draw around the underlying shape. I'll then add seam allowance and notches to each pattern piece before sewing them together.



TAPING - CORSETS - SESSION 1

In my technical sessions at college we are currently working on a corset project. The idea is to use the method 'taping' and then take inspiration from Miss Havisham to create a decayed looking corset.

Here are just some practice pieces that I did to try and get used to the idea of taping.