Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Toiling

Half toile


First I did a half toile for the right and side which features a frog mouth pocket integrated into a panelled front. Sewing the frog mouth pocket into the panel was the hardest part of the toile as I had to negotiate it around the curve of the pocket. I had to rely on my notches which were NOT accurate. So I had to go back to my pattern and alter it, which was harder than I anticipated.


My collar worked perfectly as did the rest of the pattern.




Full toile


The full toile was a little bit more difficult.


The notches again did not match up on my pocket so I have to re think my pattern. Notches did not match up in several places so I need to  look at the rest of the pattern and double check.


I had difficulty with my full collar. Though it fit my 1/2 toile it did not my full toil. So I checked my pattern and my collar was 2cm too big so I amended it and carried on. The problem was that I didn't do a facing on my half toile I just added 5cm on to the raw edge of my front. My notches again need to be looked at due to the fact of me changing the length. 


The sleeves I could not fit in so I ended up with a tuck at the top of each sleeve, this is because calico is not the easiest fabric to manipulate and due to the time scale before the fitting I left it as that however in my final jacket I will not cut any corners.

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