Dress fit for our styles.

The project was for us to create a garment from scratch to fit our sense of style. We decided to make double colored dresses with a belt separating both bottom and top. The project was mostly easy but some parts were challenging. For example adding the elastic band around the neck was new. One problem for the dress was around the arms, it was baggy so we decided to add a framilon band. We have used mostly tricot fabric for our dresses.

This project made us see that its not that hard to do your own clothes. 

Julia and Anna 7B 

Lace Garments

I made a tight fitting dress with lace and a tight fitting, off the shoulder crop top with lace sleeves. In the beggining i knew, that making these would be difficult because of the lace, because it was non-stretchy. I think one of the most hardest things in this process was making the fabrics fit my body. I always tried to make the garments a little bigger becauce you can always make it smaller but it's hard to make it bigger. I had to add some fabric to the dress to make it more stretchy because  the lace made the top half smaller. Also another problem with the lace in the dress was that I couldn't sew with the twin needle across the lace on the chest, so I had to use diagonal stitching which made the chest not so neat. I think in the end both garments turned out to be wearable but I favour the shirt more because it came out neater.

 



 

Molly 7B

 

Chiffon dress

I started with the idea of a black party dress, that's short from the front and long from the back. Chiffon is an easy material to work with, and it added a kind of flowy feeling to it. Underneath is a short black tricot dress. The top part is a kind of a corset model, several parts together. I like it because it's so fitted and interesting. The simple tricot skirt was easy to make. For the chiffon part, I put the dress on a mannequin, wrapped the chiffon around the waist and cut the hem short from the front. Then I used a sewing machine and added the chiffon hem to the dress using an elastic string.

 
I'm really happy with it, it is just as I thought it would be, and fits me really well. The chiffon hem was complicated and I could have done the attachment to the dress better.
 

Crop top

My project was a white crop top. I wanted it to be flowy and loose at the bottom. I didn't want it to have any pattern because I wanted it to be plain and wearable with everything. Making the crop top was quite easy, even though it took some time. I chose viscose tricot as my fabric and made it so that it has two layers. It has an elastic band at the top so it would stay on me, but I also sewed on removable straps. Im really happy with my crop top.