Stuff done
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janestarzYesterday I procrastinated. But I also worked on my blazer pattern. At some point I had to tell my muse to stfu, as she was nudging me to make a test-blazer out of some poly-silk blend I had lying around, because it would be glorious and pretty and I could check the fit before making the tweed blazer for a grade.
So we didn't do that.
I did pre-wash my blazer fabrics - the tweed one survived a 40°C wash, and the blue stretch linen for the exams survived the washing machine without becoming a hot wrinkly mess. I hung it over the bathroom door and shower cabin overnight to dry.
The blazer pattern is mostly done now, so the teacher can check my collar and armscye and sleeve adjustments. It's totally crazy that just by adjusting the armscye depth my sleeve overwidth dropped from 10.5% to 6-and-a-bit. Because the adjustment means you also adjust the sleeve head, but apparantly not as much as the armscye. And 10% overwidth boils down to some 6 centimeters in my size, so if you reduce that to 4 centimeters, you drop a lot of percent. But still. Crazy shit!
This morning I was determined to do the jeans pattern, and it's just so much fun! I've drafted in the front seams based on the inspiration picture and then proceeded to match those to the back leg and continue in a nice form so no weird angles appear. It means the front will have sort of egg-shaped convex panels, and the back will have concave panels pointing to the back of the knee. So awesome! I hope it all works out the way I planned it.
I have three different kinds of pockets in the trousers, because that's what looks good and is also in the inspiration picture. There's a stitched-on pocket with flap on the outside leg (opgestikte zak met klep), a regular trouser pocket at the waistline (steekzak), and a welt pocket with flap on the butt (éénzijdige paspelzak met klep). Good stuff to practice, with the exams coming up. I will use snaps to close the flaps, and use a snap on center-front as well as the hook and eye we're supposed to use.
Next up: tracing the jeans pattern pieces and start cutting!
So we didn't do that.
I did pre-wash my blazer fabrics - the tweed one survived a 40°C wash, and the blue stretch linen for the exams survived the washing machine without becoming a hot wrinkly mess. I hung it over the bathroom door and shower cabin overnight to dry.
The blazer pattern is mostly done now, so the teacher can check my collar and armscye and sleeve adjustments. It's totally crazy that just by adjusting the armscye depth my sleeve overwidth dropped from 10.5% to 6-and-a-bit. Because the adjustment means you also adjust the sleeve head, but apparantly not as much as the armscye. And 10% overwidth boils down to some 6 centimeters in my size, so if you reduce that to 4 centimeters, you drop a lot of percent. But still. Crazy shit!
This morning I was determined to do the jeans pattern, and it's just so much fun! I've drafted in the front seams based on the inspiration picture and then proceeded to match those to the back leg and continue in a nice form so no weird angles appear. It means the front will have sort of egg-shaped convex panels, and the back will have concave panels pointing to the back of the knee. So awesome! I hope it all works out the way I planned it.
I have three different kinds of pockets in the trousers, because that's what looks good and is also in the inspiration picture. There's a stitched-on pocket with flap on the outside leg (opgestikte zak met klep), a regular trouser pocket at the waistline (steekzak), and a welt pocket with flap on the butt (éénzijdige paspelzak met klep). Good stuff to practice, with the exams coming up. I will use snaps to close the flaps, and use a snap on center-front as well as the hook and eye we're supposed to use.
Next up: tracing the jeans pattern pieces and start cutting!
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Date: 2016-05-25 07:11 pm (UTC)