CONSTRUCTION

BEAU SCARLETT-PITT  - A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BODY HANGING.

Having already made a paper toile/pattern when working on the stand, I found construction of my garment fairly straightforward. 

As I couldn't get red neoprene that was to my satisfaction, I had to opt for the white, which in fact I'm glad that I did as the print came out incredibly strong! However, this meant that I had to spray paint the edges of the cut pieces as i didn't want to have white seams showing. I had to use two coats as the first one came out slightly pink. After they dried, I could start to construct them together which was made extremely easy by the plan that I had written to myself on the pattern pieces. I had to make sure that I was sewing the pieces accurately as every single seam had to match up otherwise all the jigsaw puzzle pieces wouldn't fit together later. i think this is what i flung the most challenging as without it, the whole structure would be different and wouldn't successfully represent the reflections that they originated from. 

 THE START OF CINDRUCTING A SEAM

Once I had constructed the body hanging, I then moved onto the rib knitted dress element of my design. Knitting was the most stressful element of my garment. Every time that I tried to carry it out successfully, I would be knitting away and it would out of the blue just fall off the machine. I tried this a number of times before I made the wise decision to quickly change my idea which wouldn't include the knitted dress. I decided to whip up a quick pattern from rough body measurements of my model and cut it out of a red sweatshirt-like material as I wanted something warm and relatively  close to wool in properties. 

STAND PHOTO OF RED UNDER DRESS

After my garment was finished I reed it on my model but I still felt as if there was something missing. So I came up with the idea to make a snood like garment out of my failed knitwear attempts. I am actually really pleased with the outcome of the overall garment as even though mistakes have been made, I feel as it they have been rectified. 

PHOTO OF RVERYTHING ANFD