Friday, 5 February 2010

big arse shirt

For like the past 2 and half days and then 2 days last week i have been making a period mans shirt at college. Woop Woop. it was kinda a fluke that we managed to make something, and the fact its full scale is even better really. Plus is all like ruffly, gathered with huge sleeves i love it. I must say i did ensure that i had a huge ruffle to go or the full romantic feel. Although its completely to scale using a pattern to then draft my own, wow did they turn out big.I tried my on and whey reached like my knees which was preety comical {see below} however i get a sneaky suspicion that technically im like poop in comparison to others.

I dunno...
one. i work slow but like i actually need to liek start focusing if im ever to finish anything - more on this in a mo
two. like yer i dunno i think i just lack so much experience maybe i should have done a foundation year? who knows hmmm
three. i swear im just way to picky cause like i could sew a line, ill ask someone and there like thats fine but like i just can't go on cause itll irritate me so i find myself doing the same thing constantly whilst others are just moving. why am i so phinicity? tis oh just a tad annoying

about being slow... well yer with our whole kimono project i never finished my kimono and like some people had days off and yer there further ahead of me how bad does that look. Like with this shirt some people are a day behind me or they had to wait to fabric to be washed and were at the same stage. To be fair with both projects i was very close to finishing kinda, i think im closer with the shirt but still ahhh its so just like irritating!

Great learning experience though i will admit, i really have learnt a lot over the two process

things for future reference: head down, concentrate and don't talk!!!
aim for accuracy but give myself a break me thinks

if i do these things maybe ill finish summit .. just maybe then id be happy =)



The jazzy kimono



The epic shirt
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  1. Lisa Kristin6 February 2010 at 06:57

    Kat! I wouldn't worry too much if I were you. When I started sewing I worked at the speed of evolution itself. I spent 60 hours on a medieval top once! because I'm fussed about accuracy, but I've become so much better at it! You just have to imagine what you're making to be a garment that will be going on stage at a certain date. That way you'll just have to do it, and then you do. And I wouldn't unpick stuff unless is disastrously wrong (or if it's a seam that will end up showing when the garment is finished). The practice will come as you sew more stuff.

    I don't want to seem like a wannabe-tutor know-it-all, you just have to realize that you wouldn't have got in if you weren't qualified. Don't pester your mind with it (:

    Writing-tool went weirdI was writing "I'm still going slow because I'm fussed about accuracy" up there.

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