Spring jacket~

After Christmas break we started with our second last works, jackets. My client was my classmate and she had this clear image what kind of jacket she wanted. The jacket was really delicate and almost like a dress.
First I was a bit terrified how complicated it would be. But when I realized it wasn't that difficult, I was thrilled about it and couldn't wait to start.


She wanted princess seams, double-breasted (two rows of buttons), pleats on the hem, belt, pockets and shawl collar.

We fitted the basic patterns and made few changes until I could start drafting.

The fabric is so beautiful! It was a pleasure to work on the jacket when the fabric was this pretty~

I had to fit the jacket few times and make some changes (mostly on the top) before it was fitting.

The sleeves, on the other hand, weren't that easy. They required much more fittings and changes until we were satisfied.

Pockets and belt.

  
I had to make new patterns for the lining and it took more time than I thought. But sewing the lining was really fast!

Finished ! And it's so pretty (*´∀｀*)

I'm so pleased with this jacket. And it's even prettier on the client. I'll post more pictures of the finished product when I have time ;D

Internship at JKL Juhla-Asu

This internship was from Oct. 19th to Nov. 13th meaning it was quite a long time ago ^^;
My excuse for posting so late is that I just haven't had time.. Yes, a lame excuse but it's the truth! :D

Jyväskylä's Juhla-Asu (Jyväkylä's evening dress?) is a shop that mainly rents evening dresses for women and white ties to men. They make the needed adjustments to the dresses and suits and sometimes even make some of them from scratch (really really really seldom).

The atmosphere was really warm and cozy, the place was small and all my co-workers were really nice~ One of them is actually my old neighbour from my home town!

Some of the works I did.
The hem needed to be shortened

There used to be a zipper but the client wanted it to be more like a corset.

This red dress needed a tulle on the hem.
Before

 After

And the last work I did was this dumbo. The green one was from the store and the
 purple ones were made by me and my sister.

I really liked this internship. I learned so much, not only about dresses and how women should dress for a party/occasion/celebration but also how men should dress. Men's clothing is not part of our studies so it was nice to learn something from that as well.

I also liked how much different kind of tasks we had; custom service, sewing (dresses, vests, corsets, skirts etc.), mesuring even cleaning. You always had something to do.

Animal costumes~

So this was a project we had a year ago that I totally forgot about...

Last spring one kindergarden ordered us four costumes for adults (bunny, bear, fox and snowman) and some bunny headwears for kids. We made the costumes in groups and my group, we made the bear costume!


It was alot of fun though the fake fur was kind of difficult to handle :D
I'll just leave the pictures here!

Prototype

And the bear costume is finished~!

 And here's all the costumes together, nice right?

 And of course the bunny headwears.

I really like this kind of projects. We got to do something we usually wouldn't be able to and working in groups was nice change ^_^

When I first heard about this projecs, I thought it would be difficult and would take a lot of time. But it was surprisingly easy and we were finished in a week!

Corset vest with halterneck

Corsets were not part of the curriculum but because our teacher wanted us to learn to do one, it was added in. Which I'm really glad about :D

We made ones for ourselves and we could choose what ever we wanted. Time, though, was limited. Only one to two weeks and if you couldn't finish it on that time, you'd have to make it on your free time.

I'm not the kind of person who wears a corset so I thought it might be a little difficult to choose what to make. But then I stumbled across a pictures of corset vests and I knew what I wanted! I have had plans to buy a vest for a while now but instead of buying I could make one.

And here's few pictures

Making the patterns

Arranging the patterns on the fabric. Yet again I needed to pay more attention to this so that the pattern would continue symmetrically.

 Then it was mostly just sewing, sewing and more sewing :)

Then I don't have more photos of the progress......

With the pieces together, I only needed to put in the bones, sew the buttons and the edges, put grommet and string. Then it would be finished!

From the back

 and front

I don't have words to describe how much I love this! It's absolutely perfect (ฅ* 0 *ฅ)

Of course there are things I could have done better but hey I like it :D

Hello again!

Summer holiday has ended meaning we are back to school! This time we are making trousers.

I have to apologise for the lack of photos. Seems like I was still in holiday mood and totally forgot to take pictures of the progress ^^;

I found this picture from last years magazine. What a good coincidence, these are almost exactly what my client wanted! (sorry for the quality)

Making a basic trousers aren't that difficult. But when you have to make ones that fits perfectly to your client whose body happens to be a little... challenging(?) it gets difficult.

I had to make a lot of adjustments to my patterns and make the practise trousers few time because they just didn't fit well. But all that painstaking changes were worth it. When I got the patterns perfected the rest of the work wasn't that hard.

The finished product!

The zipper turned out to be much easier to sew than what I first thought. Also the pockets weren't that hard to make. The waist, in the other hand, caused more problems than what I wanted to admit. But luckily those were solved pretty fast, with few changes, of course.

There are things I'm not quite pleased with. Seams don't match or stitch aren't that neat in some parts, but all in all, I'm happy with the outcome (as is my client).

Shirt blouse

After Christmas holiday we started with shirt blouses. My client was my classmate and she didn't want a shirt but a dress.

Here's the design of the dress: the fabric was light pink with stripes, the peter pan collar, a princess seam,' rekko', short sleeves and circle hem.

Just like with every work, with this as well, we started with basic patterns and then with the personal pattern drafting in quarter scale.

And when that was done it was time to do the same in right size.

With these you make the sewing patterns.

I'm really pleased how well I managed to arrange the patterns on the fabric. When you have a patterned fabric you have to pay more attention how you do it so that the pattern continues symmetrically. Last time with the skirt I did something wrong but this time, everything went perfectly~

First you sew the pieces together with long stitches and then try it on your client.

After trying it on I made the needed changes and started to sew with short stitches. Looking good!

Almost there.

The buttons we choose with the client. Those are so cute ( ˘ ³˘)

 And it's finished!

There were a lot of new things for example the collar, buttons, the princess seams, the 'rekko' etc. so it took quite a lot of time to finish. But those weren't difficult, actually I'm quite surprised how easy the whole process was. If something caused me troubles it was those princess seams :D

But that was it! I really love this dress, it's so pretty and cute~ Someday I'll make one for myself!