Giles Deacon Project - Part 3

I started the manufacturing of the dress today and managed to get quite a bit done. The first thing I did was cut out the interfacing for the pieces that need structure.  I then ironed the interfacing on to the pattern pieces.

 

 

Then I sewed the two back darts.

 

I over locked the side seams on the front and back bodice and then sewed them together with a 1cm seam allowance. It was then time to sew in the back panels.

 

Next, I sewed the shoulders.

 



 

I over locked the raw edges of the panel and pressed them.

 

Then over locked the side seams on the neck facing and sewed them together.

 



 

 Then I sewed the shoulders on the neck facing.

 



Anger Thread

On my mind map I made for the seven deadly sins, I had wrote explosive emotion. This made me decide to look at nuclear explosions as my starting point. The clouds that the explosions create make me think of furrowing, which is a textile technique I had learnt in the textile workshops. I then moved on to look at the damage the explosions caused.

 

 

I tried to create the texture of the rubble on the mannequin. I then looked at the different textures caused by rubble and created a print from it.

 

 

 

The lines in the rubble reminded me of cracked glass. Using tucks I recreated the lines in cracked glass on fabric.

  



Giles Deacon Project - Part 2

I chose my fabric to make the dress out of but it isn't quite structured enough to make the dress. This will be solved by putting interfacing on the areas that need to be structured. I am making it out of two different fabric to make it more interesting. The next thing I did was cut out all the pattern pieces and place on the fabric. I then cut the fabric.

 

 

 



Greed thread

I have completed the second thread which is about greed. I started with two images I found that represented greed. I then drew some hands and mouths on the page, which I took from these images. I then looked at the clenched hand because I thought it represented greed and how greed grabs things and doesn't share.

 

 

I thought about what else was tightly closed which was clams. I noticed that the clams had a lined pattern on their shells. I recreated this on a small sample. I did some work on the mannequin with the shape of the clams. Clams contain pearls inside which moved me on to gem stones. This still links back to greed because gem stones are a desirable possession. The line drawing of the gems reminded me of origami.

 

I created a origami necklace and because I used magazine paper which has a shine to it, at first glace the origami looked like jewels.

 

  

Giles Deacon Project - Part 1

Now that I have finished the 60s style dress, I have been given a new brief. This time the dress will be entered in a competition which is on the website Showstudio. The competition is part of a design download series on the website. Giles Deacon provided a pattern for one of his dresses. I have downloaded and printed this pattern off. But because the pattern was printed out on A4 the pattern pieces had to be assembled before you cut them out.

This was all I had time to do because it was near the end of the lesson but I plan to cut the pieces out over the weekend and buy the fabric. 

The 60s Dress Project - Part 5

This is the final part to the 60s dress project. Today was the deadline in which the dress had to be finished by. Fortunately I managed to complete my dress.

I started the lesson by turning the dress inside out and over locking the sides.

Then it was time to make the pleated skirt frill to attach to the dress. I folded the darts together according to the pattern I made for the pleats.Then pinned them in place and repeated this on the other side. I then sewed the pleats on both sides. I attached the back and front of the skirt frill together.

The next thing I did was attached the skirt frill to the dress.

I placed it on a mannequin to see how it looked so far. I now think I should have made it shorter and put pleats in the back.

I hemmed the sleeves by turning them up twice and sewing. I should have sewn close to the edge because this would have stopped the hem from flapping up.





I cut out interfacing for the neck facing and ironed it on to the neck facing fabric. I then

 over locked three of the four sides on each piece. Then I attached then together with a 1cm seam allowance and ironed them into a open seam.  

Next I sewed it on to the neckline on the dress. I attached it to the zip part first then folded it around and pinned it. I also did the on the other side. Then I lined up the seams and pinned it in place. I pinned the neck facing all the way around the neckline. This was sewn with a 1cm seam allowance.



I cut small triangles on the edge of the neck facing, where it is joined to the dress. This gives it ease. Then I ironed it and did a running stitch along the edge. I then tacked it to the inside of the dress. After that I had finished the dress.