Final sewing of the 60s dress

The neck facing was the final step of the dress! All I had to do was cut some interfacing out and iron onto the facing to make it stronger and more suitable for the dress, the next step of the facing was to over lock the out side of the facing and stitch the facings to the neck line remembering to put good sidedly together, once connecting the dress to the facing was done I had to press the facing down and stitch close to the neckline to secure the facing down. Then I was done the dress was completed and it was ready to be pressed and placed on a manikeen, and that's exactly what I did and here the finished 60s dress...

Attaching the pleats to the dress

By putting the right sides of the pleats and the dress together they just needed a simple 1cm seam allowance stitch around it and it's connected

Pleats!

Now to the pleats, firstly I had to match up the notches and press the pleats in place ready to stitch a straight line across the top to hold the pleats in place, I then had to connect the front and the back peice of the hem with a simple straight stitch

Side seams!

Connecting the dress together was a simple all I had to do was a simple straight stitch from the end of the sleeve to the bottom of the hip and over lock the edge.

Sleeves!

The sleeves were difficult, the technique was to gather the sleeves in by sewing two tack stitched on the sleeve and pulling them to make it gather the excess material together, after the gathering was done we have to see the sleeve on to the dress making sure the gathering was equal all the way around. After this was completed I had to neaten the sleeves by turning then up by 2cm ad sewing them in a straight line, making sure they were to a professional standard

The final days of pattern cutting

After all the material was cut out it was ready to sew!! Firstly I sewed the darts in the front of the dress making sure I sewed straight of the edge, the next stage was to see the lined pockets on to the dress! It was difficult but after a few times I managed it. I then had to see the invisible zip into the back of the dress, but firstly I had to shorten the zip as it was to long for my dress( nightmare). It was pretty simple all I had to do it sew on the machine back and forward a few time and chop Olathe rest of the zip of I didn't want.

Experimenting

I experimented on the body with parts of fabric twisted and turned to try and recreate part of the brain that's feels emotions, controlled thinking and behaviour. I choose the shoulder and arm whole on the body to recreate the brain as I thought it would give a good outcome and some interesting shapes, here's how it went...