After finally finishing my flat drawings, pattern cutting and creating my toile I started on my final design. this meant cutting out my pattern pieces again but with my chosen fabric, boiled wool.
once I had cut my pieces out, I sewed the dress together, but without the sleeves on as I wanted to spray paint onto the dress before hand.
As spray painting free handed would cause thick lines I created stencils out of cardboard so that the lines/ patterns would be crisp and slick. After spray painting I started on creating the sleeves.
Firstly, I gathered the end of the sleeves to create the frills and then attached them to the other half which would then be sewed onto the dress. I kept the frills quite small at top as this meant the sleeve length would be fuller and longer, which I wanted.
Once the dress was all sewn together, i wasn’t too keen on how long the dress was. To solve this problem, I decided to measure the length of how short I wanted it and cut off the excess material and re sewed the bottom bits to secure the dress.
Looking at my overall design, I am pleased with the outcome as it looks wacky and different, which is what I wanted to portray through my garment and book.
Mollys journal 