It's Tuesday Again!

I thought I would write a pre-class blog entry this week to show everyone what I was going in with and to possibly be less cynical whilst writing friends and family. Well this week instead of drawing my designs, which I will admit I am terrible at, I decided to make some samples and half toiles of my design ideas to show to my tutor today in hopes that I might get my ideas across to her. Well here are my designs, hope you all enjoy:

This is a Leg-o-mutton sleeve with cartridge pleating

This another Leg-o-mutton sleeve, made-up 3 pieces and is cut to lay across the chest when pressed flat, this causes fullness in the shoulder of the sleeve

This is a half toile that has double box pleats in the front,

 back and sleeve to give extra fullness 

Detail shot of the front yoke

detail shot of the back yoke

This is a pleated raglan leg-o-mutton sleeve

Detail shot of the winged french cuff

Here are two "Dandy" style collars with an ascot bow

modeled by the wonderful Ozora

First Day of Classes?

So I am still uncertain if I’ve started classes yet. Well today we had a sewing machine and pattern cutting introduction, but it was semi and tutorial and partly making sure everyone knew how to use everything. So in the sewing machine “induction”, as they call it, we were taught how to thread the machines properly and were shown a few different types of seams. Of course I was ahead of the crowd, most people got lost half way through threading the sewing machine and by that time I was speeding through the seams we had to complete. The two sew machine room technicians really liked me, so that is a plus. As for the pattern cutting induction all we did was trace body blocks for a bodice. For those of you who don’t know what a block is, it’s a very basic bodice pattern that has no real design behind it, but is the 2D representation of the human 3D figure, so it would be like making a flat pattern out of your skin. So we listened to the pattern cutting technician lecture about rules and what not and then we traced our patterns and were able to leave. Before I left I asked if we’d be doing everything in the metric system and she said yes. Uh oh I better get used to metric and fast!