Space Shorts

Shirt for Class! Back attem, here was the last project for the Construction 1A class, a shirt. Since it was for this class there was some stuff that made this garment unusual, but it's still cool practice. Primary challenges: The collar.  Making a nice neat collar that was nice and pointy on the tips was a good piece of work. It seems to have turned out ok though! The sleeve caps.  The part where the sleeve attaches to the body was a lot of work. It took me over an hour for each one. The reason it was so hard was that the sleeve piece is made larger than the sleeve hole, and to account for that you need to sew in the ease (extra length) nice and neat. You can see the top of the sleeve right at the seam has a little bit of a wrinkle. That's how it's supposed to look. If I didn't do it right, all that extra fabric would bunch up in one place as a pleat instead. The way I accomplished this was stitching like 3 or 4 basting stitches (long stit...

Skirt for Class! As I said in my previous post, I've started taking classes for sewing. This is from my first class, so I'm half a semester late posting it, but you know, can't win them all. This was the second project and was therefore a little more difficult than the first. A few of the techniques were more of training than things we would actually do when making a garment. This skirt included: A lapped zipper! We did a little bit of practice with zippers in class prior to this project, and I'd taken a small sewing with zippers class before. A lapped zipper is where a bit of the fabric laps over the zipper on one side, covering it. This zipper wasn't easy but it was straight-forward enough to do. Seams! Ok, so we had seams along the straps for the apron, but here we had to do seams of the skirt panels. The seam was kind of weird in that we just folded back the raw edge and stitched the fold, like a partial hem. A waistband! This was pro...