Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Mr Regel's Maths Tie

This project was completed in a single lesson with the idea that our maths teacher could wear it while invigilating our maths exam, next week.
We simply used a red polyester tie with navy blue paint and fabric medium to create a basic pattern of 4 mathematic symbols. We measured the tie against another teacher so we knew where to print it from. Mr Regel was really impressed with our creativity, but said he would only ever wear it on the one occasion as there was really nothing in his wardrobe that it matched.

I'm Finished!

After weeks of sewing and unpicking, I have finally finished my project.

This project was a lot more difficult than I expected it to be, however it was a great learning experience.

The part I found most challenging was taking the dress up. Instead of hemming I unpicked the top and bottom apart at the waist, then cut the top off the bottom piece. I thought to myself this is easy, boy was I wrong. All i had to do was sew the top to the bottom piece, easy enough? Once i finished the pinning, it was time to sew. It wasn't till I had completed sewing that I found out I had sewn the wrong sides together. After resewing, I thought i had finished, I was wrong. The back pleates were hanging over the waist seam, yes I had to unpick once again.

Luckily my teacher took my dress home to finish for me. 
THANK YOU MRS WALKER!

 


Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Spaghetti Straps to Halter COMPLETE!

 
Dress is done No more spaghetti straps a nice suppportive halter! Perfect to wear out to my 16th Birthday Dinner!

Spaghetti Straps to Halter!





I was searching through some box's of clothes from an op shop and came across this stunning dress that can be made even better! I tried it on and it fit perfect!
I really dont like the spaghetti straps that cross over, they're so confusing and tacky, so I've cut them off, and I'll be creating a halter neck.

Playsuit the Jumpsuit COMPLETE

 

 This is a photo of my Garment all hemed up and put into shape,
I hemed the legs up to a better length the shorter style, and took up the sleeves into more of a racer like top half.
This is the done and dusted Playsuit, with a lace like Doiley collar and belt, all ready to be worn out this summer!

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Amelia's Lace Skirt

After finishing my jumper project and seeing that a lot of other people were working with lace, I decided to give it a go myself. Another girl in the class brought in a couple of her ma's lace table cloths and I thought I'd see what I could do with them.
I found a skirt at home that I'd bought at the start of the year, that had been a little bit short for my liking so I brought it in to see what I could do.

I started by cutting the centre out of the table cloth, leaving only the border, i then cut one of the corners so that it could be turned into a linear piece of material. I then took my skirt and pinned the lace upside down around the bottom hem- this allowed for a seamless look when I finished sewing.

After sewing the lace to the hem, I hand stitched (terribly) the ends of the lace together and voila! I was done in just two lessons. Now, rather than a scantily short cotton skirt I have a knee length, maroon and white, cotton and lace skirt- perfect to wear out, without having to worry about constantly pulling it back down at the back.

-Amelia

Lace dress


In my original design I was going to make a whole new three quarter length top to go undreneath the dress. To save time I decided to change the idea and turn the back into lace and put a small bit in the front.
 

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