Julian Roberts Dress for MOTHS

Here are photos of my final dress made for the Modelling on the Stand (MOTHS). To create this dress I used the Julian Roberts pattern cutting technique. I had previously tried this technique twice so I felt quite confident in making my final dress using it. Using the two fabrics for the dress was not an easy task as they were both light weight and difficult to handle. I tried to recreate the toile that I had made for the dress earlier in the project, however it did not work well with the lighter fabric so I changed and adapted my approach. I played around with different pieces, pinning them in different places, until I was happy with the result. 

Overall I am really happy with how this project has gone and how my final dress has turned out. It was good to try new techniques and to work outside of my comfort zone.

Drawing on the bodice pattern.

Cutting out the dress.

All of the fabric removed.

Me holding the shoulder seams together, before anything was sewn. 

The back view of my complete dress. 

The front view of my completed dress.

Close up of the hand sewn gather. 

Close up of the invisible zip.

Silk Mill Project Samples

I have been working on samples to experiment as part of the 'Live' project. Although I specialise in knitting I wanted to incorporate some embroidery into my samples as I particularly enjoy it and can use silk too. My experimenting has included some silk fabrics, silk threads and free hand embroidery. I really like how the two samples I made have turned out. I would really like to try and use these in my final garment. Below are a series of photos of the samples whilst they were being made.

Sam

Quilting Project

So it’s been a little while since my last post. The first year has finished and now I’d like to catch up and write some posts about the projects from the first year that I haven’t already covered.

After the Weave project, we moved onto a Quilting project. This was a group project where each group had a different theme and “nothing flat” was our theme. As a group we chose our colour palette at the start of the project but we then found that we went off to work independently. The only time we actually came back together as a group was in the final stages to present it. In hindsight I think that if we had chosen our groups ourselves we may have worked better as a team throughout the project.

My group's colour palette

Quilting by definition is to pierce through two or more surfaces. This gives a lot of flexibility to people using this technique as you do not just have to stay with traditional stitching.

As part of the project I had to create 15 or more samples using our chosen colour palette and within the theme of “nothing flat”. We could go back and use knit, weave or print techniques to create these samples. The aim of this project was to help us to decide which path to specialise in for the remainder of the course.

Machine embroidery and fabric manipulation.

Multi-coloured plain weave on the loom.

Multi-coloured plain weave close-up.

Free-hand machine embroidery and beading.

Fabric manipulation using machine stitching.

To create my samples I decided to use weave, embroidery and fabric manipulation techniques. I really enjoyed experimenting within these techniques to develop my samples and this helped me to decide that weave was the path I wanted pursue.

Sam

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