Musings on patterns and whatnot
Mar. 31st, 2020 02:15 pm I've been working on a project for three days or so now. Maybe four, if you count the night I spent cutting pieces of paper so I could tape them together in the morning.
I don't particularly care for print-at-home patterns, by the way.
It's a relatively simple A-line skirt, but it required 54 pages of A4 paper, which needed to be taped together precisely or you get buckling and misaligned things which lead to misshapen or wrongly-sized pieces. No pressure.
I much prefer patterns I've drafted myself but I don't have nearly enough paper to draft as many patterns as I want to. Even after bringing home 5+m from school! I've gotta save that for schoolwork, anyways. (Thanks, CoViD) I've got the underlayer of the front traced off with 1cm seam allowance, though, because of the lining fabric I was trying to use. I needed to be more conservative than Sean Hannity with regards to my fabric, being that I only had half a meter, and frankly I should've ignored the grain line and cut it on the straight grain. Should've, but I didn't. And now that failed lining bit is destined to become face masks, if I can work out the patterns.
Anyways, it was for a competition and the deadline has now been extended to mid-May, so all this rushing I've done has been completely unnecessary. :v But I'll have a new skirt, at least. And I've managed to learn a few lessons:
I don't particularly care for print-at-home patterns, by the way.
It's a relatively simple A-line skirt, but it required 54 pages of A4 paper, which needed to be taped together precisely or you get buckling and misaligned things which lead to misshapen or wrongly-sized pieces. No pressure.
I much prefer patterns I've drafted myself but I don't have nearly enough paper to draft as many patterns as I want to. Even after bringing home 5+m from school! I've gotta save that for schoolwork, anyways. (Thanks, CoViD) I've got the underlayer of the front traced off with 1cm seam allowance, though, because of the lining fabric I was trying to use. I needed to be more conservative than Sean Hannity with regards to my fabric, being that I only had half a meter, and frankly I should've ignored the grain line and cut it on the straight grain. Should've, but I didn't. And now that failed lining bit is destined to become face masks, if I can work out the patterns.
Anyways, it was for a competition and the deadline has now been extended to mid-May, so all this rushing I've done has been completely unnecessary. :v But I'll have a new skirt, at least. And I've managed to learn a few lessons:
- I hate print-at-home patterns. I will gladly pay too much money for Officeworks to print them out for me.
- Always wash your fabric asap, even the stuff you don't have a project in mind for. You never know when you might need a new lining because your planned lining fabric isn't cooperating.
- Take pictures of your progress, because there's a bunch of things I should've probably taken photos of to submit for this competition (tracing & modifying the pattern for the underlayer, the failed lining, the basting...) but I didn't.
- I should really get a proper binder to set up as a project Bible. For all my projects, not just the costuming ones.