Toile Dairy

Cut out the skirt piece.

Cut x 1 : waistband and Cut x 1 : interfacing.

Iron on the interfacing to the waistband piece.

Attach the waistband to the skirt piece, sew a waistband piece to a skirt with a 1.5 seam allowance like the picture show below.

Fold the top edge to a 1.5 and bring it to the stich line and sew closely like the picture show below.

This is what it look like close up.

And this is what is look like as a whole piece. Next step is to stiffen my fabric, cut out and make an ankle piece and attach the string on to it then it finish. ( I apologize there is no complete photo of my design because the waist is too small to fit the maniquin therefore if I was to photograph this, I would need to find a model who have a waist to fit my design.)

At first I was going to use Non-shrinking dope to stiffen my fabric but as my company is suistanable I had a second thought and decided that I would like to use a different method that suit the suistanability and I has found the starch method to stiffen my fabric.

 

While I sampling with my starch, I decided to make my ankle piece ready.

Iron on the interfacing to make the waistband.

Cut out my skirt piece on a real fabric and attach it to a waistband.

This is the starch I used.

Mixed the starch with water until it became unitedly.

While waiting for the starch to melt with water, I washed to skirt with water; this is for the starch to soak evenly onto the piece.

Add the starch little at a time onto a boil water and keep stirring.

As you can see that the starch is now clear, almost like a water.

Stir and check the thickness of the starch.

Once it clear like this. This mean that it ready!

Soak the whole piece.

Drying time ^_^

This is what the result came out like. It is stiffen but not to a level that I was imagine it to come out like.

Now the skirt piece is ready it is time to do my ankle piece,  I decided that I will use velcro as it save time and convenience to change size if this doesn't fit the model; this is also suitable for my design because my company collection is quite sporty so using Velcro remind me of trainers which links to the company collection. The picture you see above is a heavy duty Velcro that I will be using for my ankle piece which you can convenienly stick on the garment.

Place the sticky side of a Velcro onto the fabric.

Stick the Velcro onto the ankle piece.

Over locked around the skirt.

Fold in the hem, using the over locker stitch as a guide and sew closely.

Inserted the invisible zip.

Attached the top end of strings onto the bottom of the skirt

Attached the bottom end of strings onto the ankle pieces.

Final brief

Final brief has finally arrived. I am very exciting for this brief because its the last brief for the last year in college and students are free to chose their own collection and theme.
For this brief I decided that my collection inspiration will come from a mixed culture that I has experienced it my self and my theme for this collection will be special occasions clothes.

Firstly I will research in dept about Thailand traditional dresses from historical period of time till todays traditional dresses and some about thing that interest me from my memory as when I was a child.
Second thing that I will be research about will be about English historical clothes in the period of time that I admire.
Third subject I need to research about is special occasion clothing that people wear for special occasions.
Finally forth thing that I will research is going to be about artist and designer that inspired me.

My 4 outfit boards

I have to design 16 outfits of capsule collection base on my ASOS green company research and my inspiration research that I did before designing my outfit for ASOS green.

On my research I researched about city chic style of clothes and tailoring because these are the theme that I am inspired by. On my ASOS green company that I had researched some of their clothes is sporty influenced which I knew that I have to design something similar but I also did not want to be too sporty because it not my kind of type so I mixed them with my influenced research which is tailoring and city chic and I also bought in an African colour into my collection to suit the company; ASOS green room is using African fabric and manufacture in Africa which made it sustainable.

Let take a look at my work.

My first board

My second board

My third board

My forth board

Finding my roll!

As I have mention on my last post that my third practical illustration isn't yet complete and I will upload the completed one to show you how it goes.

With my third experiment I have notice that the media work really well for me, I am really comfortable with this experimentation and have decided that my final three pairs of board will be in this kind of media and style.

So.....shall we take a look at the work?

This is the complete finished of my third illustration experimentation that was inspired by Sara Hingle.

The media I have used on this illustration was
- Pencil
-Black crayon
-Watercolour

(Feel free to comment about my work)

This is my base; using pencil and black crayon.

This is now completed; I have added water colour .