Exam training
Apr. 13th, 2012 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzNext week around this time I'll be hip-deep in my pattern drafting exam. So I suppose it's time I get started on my exam training. I've been a good girl and haven't missed any lessons anymore since that time there was a snowfall and the NS was panicking. I have also made my homework each week and I feel that this has really helped. I could explain the theory behind raglan sleeves, sleeves that are cut in one with the body and other things clearly to Jeske when she was here.
Teacher Helen, from my practical class, said it would be good if I copied the basic gown block several times and just practiced designing, designing, designing. This is a very good tip! I wonder how many times I'd just draft my own basic gown before figuring out I could just make copies.
- Practicing basic gown block in 2 or 3 sizes.
- Deviations: VOG, AOG, high/low shoulders, flat/full tummy, flat/full backside, long front waist length and large bosom.
- Sleevils. Drafting them and placing them onto the basic gown block for raglans.
- Collars.
I am also still struggling with pleats (where to get the fabric!?), so I'll work on some of the more difficult homework assignments we've had recently again, try and see if I can remember what we did to do them and how to work with them. I can check my results with the hand-out of the pattern, yay!
In other news: Swordfighting practice was tough yesterday. My back was still in a knot from school, where I was bent forward over a table that is too low for me, pinning and chalking and cutting a pattern. Carrying and fighting with a shield is hard if you have to do it two hours in a row, but more so if your back is already complaining. I also got whacked on the thumb by one of our resident Belgians.
We now have learned the four ... kata's? ... for sword and shield. I must say my wrist needs to seriously toughen up for that fehler but I think the hardest isnot to look like a total ballerina in the second series the wechselschlag in the fourth series. Ah, so many muscles to train, so little time!
Teacher Helen, from my practical class, said it would be good if I copied the basic gown block several times and just practiced designing, designing, designing. This is a very good tip! I wonder how many times I'd just draft my own basic gown before figuring out I could just make copies.
- Practicing basic gown block in 2 or 3 sizes.
- Deviations: VOG, AOG, high/low shoulders, flat/full tummy, flat/full backside, long front waist length and large bosom.
- Sleevils. Drafting them and placing them onto the basic gown block for raglans.
- Collars.
I am also still struggling with pleats (where to get the fabric!?), so I'll work on some of the more difficult homework assignments we've had recently again, try and see if I can remember what we did to do them and how to work with them. I can check my results with the hand-out of the pattern, yay!
In other news: Swordfighting practice was tough yesterday. My back was still in a knot from school, where I was bent forward over a table that is too low for me, pinning and chalking and cutting a pattern. Carrying and fighting with a shield is hard if you have to do it two hours in a row, but more so if your back is already complaining. I also got whacked on the thumb by one of our resident Belgians.
We now have learned the four ... kata's? ... for sword and shield. I must say my wrist needs to seriously toughen up for that fehler but I think the hardest is
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Date: 2012-04-13 08:26 am (UTC)(geen zorgen, ik weet zeker dat je het kunt!)