Week Five and I'm still alive

Turned in look one yesterday! Let me tell you, this week was a roller coaster from beginning to end. I made adjustments to my patterns after reviewing the prototype and began to transfer the final patterns on to a heavier cardstock paper. Then it was time to finally cut out the fabric. (Plus I finally had a chance to lay out the lights and see what they looked like!)

Cutting out the shirt wasn't too bad. Apart from the fact that the fabric couldn't still, I had a pretty successful time with it. On the other hand, the shorts turned out to be a real nightmare starting off with the fact that the fabric I planned to use was one that I had purchased in China. And only had two meters of. And it's going to be used in two different looks. And I have no way to just go out and purchase more. FUN TIMES.

Thankfully, I got everything cut out no problem. The problem came later when I started to sew the binding on to the edges of my fabric. Due to how loosely the fabric was woven, the stitching was pulling out loose fibres and the entire binding was falling off.

One stressful and sleepless night later. I figured out that if I FrayChecked the entire piece that it locked the stray fibres in place and prevented the binding from pulling them out and falling off. Unfortunately, this added another tedious step to my process, but in the end, it was worth it to not have the garment completely fall apart.

For the shirt...I'm still waiting on the rest of my lights to arrive in the mail, so the shirt isn't all together just quite yet. They should be arriving any day, though, so it should be finished soon.

In other news! The enamel pins that I have been working on to go with my collection got etched this week! It took several hours for them to etch properly but they came out so well! Once the emulsion has dissolved off I will cut them out and start the enamelling process.

Copper sheet metal before emulsion and etching.

Developing the emulsion before etching.

Thanks for reading and remember to keep checking back for new updates every week.

Salut!