I had my pieces cut and I was ready and raring to go once I arrived at the studio this morning.
The focus project today would be solely working on my "mod" style dress. In my sketch I had wanted to do welt pockets on the front portion. A welt looks like a slanted pocket basically. However, my skills are not quite ready to surmount a real pocket quite yet, so for now I am going to fake it! The thing is, it is impossible for a person to tell unless they physically tried to come up and stick their hand in to find out...which would be totally weird and WOULD NOT happen!
Placing these mock pockets would be the first task of sewing today and since I have not worked with this yet, it took me a bit to learn the mechanisms. I needed to figure out the size I wanted them to be before I could move forth.
I then had to go through and pre-finish each pocket before attaching.
Next, I had to figure out the placement of these pockets on the garment. What I did to figure this out, was pin the front of the dress to a mannequin and then experiment with pocket arrangements.
Once I found an area that seemed flatter the silhouette, I could remove the dress front from the mannequin, mark off with tape and measure out the exact inches on either side.
It was time to start getting in with the sewing machine which could go really bad or really good. I needed to make sure these were exactly in place before making puncture marks with the needle. I would hate to start from scratch on a new piece of material after the progress made!
Fortunately for me, this turned out successful! After this I made the usual stitches at the top of the shoulder and neck facings. Then sleeves were added on.
After those tasks were complete, this is what I had! It does not look like much now but once I get the side seams done, it will really start looking like a dress. Tomorrow I plan on spending a good amount of time sewing so this should be all finished:) Come back to check out the results!
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