After Dexter's accident which occurred last week the costume store had had no with their blouse construction. To make matters worse he was in possession of a few key items needed to complete our garments; lace and linen covered buttons. I already had my lace but needed my buttons to finish the breeches and shirt. This left me really worried and stressed out about what would be done but after email contact with him Amy, the supervisor, told me to hand in the shirt without the buttons but do the button holes and only attach the gold buttons on the breeches, leaving the linen ones and mark tacking where the button holes would go. This was one concern lifted but I was still really worried about the construction of my blouse...
When I'd last left it I had just made the pleated detail and was ready to attach it to the front panels of the blouse. From examining the sample I worked out the organza was attached using a straight stitch, topped off with a zigzag stitch for extra security. The lace on the sample blouse had been machine stitched. However from previous experience, and now my growing standard, I decided to hand sew it on. This would be more aesthetically pleasing; leaving a smoother finished, almost magically attached decoration. This was simple enough to do and I was quite pleased with the out come (despite disliking the colour combination and fabric choice made for me..).
Once done I began the task of creating the button stand. We'd been instructed to create a separate button stand unlike the one the sample had, which was just folded over and top stitched. I thought this would've been fairly straight forward but found this wasn't the case. Yet again it was really hard to control the organza smoothly and to catch the multiple layers of the blouse (organza, blouse fabric and lace) together. I was extremely disappointed with the first and second attempt as some how the button stands became distorted and different widths. Determined for a neater look I completely took the stands off and redone them from the beginning, which resulted in a better button stand. Once happy I then attached the front to the backs...
After this I attached the sleeves (first tacking together and then machine sewing). After the sleeves I began to over lock the seams. Before now I'd never had a problem with over locking. It was unfortunate the last studio day we had to work on it was also the first years costume parade for their last project. The space available was very limited and tight to pass through.. It was just may luck that someone knocked into me, whilst over locking, in an attempt to slip past me. The result was a small cut into my blouse body near the under arm. This left me totally heart broken and lost with what to do next; redoing the blouse wasn't an option at this stage due to the fabric left over and the time we had before hand-in. Before having a break down I got myself together in order to deal with the problem. I came up with a basic solution to repair it and the incision wasn't very noticeable after.
After the incident I found myself stressed and worked up. This is not a good emotional state to be in when working on such a finely stitched garment and so decided to take a break and sew on the rest of the lace to the cuff. It was only when doing this that the second horror story happened; I ran out of lace for the cuff. Having trusted the amount of fabric specifically given to me I had no reason to question whether it was enough for the whole blouse. I was very relieved that I'd chosen to do this now and discovered the error sooner rather than later and so went to Amy, the supervisor, for assistance. As the lace wasn't from around here we had to have a look for a similar looking lace. One was thankfully found and the dilemma now avoided.
Shortage of lace on cuff...
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