My Final Toile

It's Finished!

 

 

When I first got the brief change in the first week, I thought I would find this project not as enjoyable as the summer project, but as the project went on it got me more excited about it. I think if I was doing my designs again and had the chance to make the dress again, I would make it differently because I feel that it doesn’t fit a unique identity as much as I’d have liked. I am glad I had the chance to make my toile again, I feel much more confident in my sewing and the dress itself, it is much more professional than the original toile and I now know how to put a lining in properly.

My First toile had a few faults with it, which I thought at the time, it’s the toile and I will make sure it is perfect on the real garment. But the toile was too small, it didn’t fit on the size 10 mannequin or the model that I had chosen who fits my customer profile perfectly, so I needed to remake the patterns and the dress. I made my patterns to a size 12 block and when sewing I made sure all my seams were 1cm, I measured them all. I think doing that gave me a lot more confidence in my sewing, taking more time over the sewing didn’t make me stress as much, and I am much happier with the final piece. Re doing the pattern piece also gave me the chance to sort my hem out, in my first master draft I didn’t measure accurately when adding flare that the side seams were the same length, so when I did my patterns again I made sure that the side seams were going to fit.

This also gave me the chance to adapt my gathers again, this time I added a bit more flare into the side panels, because the fabric I will be using isn’t as strong as calico so the gathers won’t be as proponent. Also when I was making my toile I realised I had traced a pattern piece off wrong, I had trace the original neckline off instead of the adapted version, so my lining was too small for my outer dress, so I cut the neck line out before carrying on, I shall take more time with tracing off in the future.

In conclusion, I feel that I have learnt a lot from this module, a different way to sew a zip in, how to time manage myself and sewing better so that I don’t get stressed, and so that I can feel more confident in my work.