Toile Swimsuit Progress

Cover garment

Swimsuit

These are the garments I have chosen to make.

 For my toile I will work of making my jacket pattern first.

Sewing instructions for the Jacket.

1). Join upper bodice front to lower bodice front. (3 thread OL)
     Sew shoulder seams together.

2). Attach upper sleeve to lower. (3 thread OL)
     Sew shoulder onto bodice.
     Sew up sleeve to armpit then down side seam of bodice. 
     Repeat on the other side ( Staring at bodice and ending at the sleeve.)

3). Attach collar. Sew collar edge up to shoulder seam.

4). Attach zip.
     Stitch back excess down and behind on zipper top. Align top of collar on zip.
     Sew in  zipper. Use right and left zipper foot for each side. foot. (left and right for each side).

5). Attach 3 piece peplum.

Problems to Resolve.

Zip is longer than jacket.  Need to increase length of the bodice.

Positioning of the front bodice pieces is excellent.

Collar is slightly twisted.  Need to look into how to stop this occurring. Not sure what I did wrong with my sewing that caused this.

For this jacket I have used and interfacing of the fabric. Not sure if I want to do this in my final garment it adds bulk. Might not be a practical for swimming. Would like to use this garment to be active sportwear also.

Need to increase the cuff length it is too small at present.

Swimsuit and cover garments

My Prints

Embroidered circles in different colours.

As I was trying to come up with a print design I liked the idea of taking an illustration of a emboridered circle and creating a print.  Here is what I have come up with.

To tie in with my clashing of prints I have also design an Ikat print.

I am going to mix these prints together throughout my swimsuit collection.
My inspiration for my designs has come from these prints.

Mirror, emboridery and seams

Research into different embellishment techniques. I think mirror work on lyrca might not be the most practial. So it might be nice to replicate it in the form of a print perhaps silver foil to represent the mirror.

I also love tassels, poms poms, embroidery. So lovely! Very craft base. So time consuming to do which I think also adds to the beauty.

Sourced from "Needlework School".

Textiles from India

Gold motif on red.

Paisley design

Sari with gold thread. Paisley motif.

Emboridery and mirror work.

(please turn head sideways!) Indian embroidered animals.

Embroidery and mirror work.

Please turn head sideways. Front design.

1980's Print

Great use of colour.  This print feels quite floral even though it's just a punch of blobs.

 

 This print has a batik feel to the design with the negative space around the zig zag stripe.

These images are slightly blurry they were taken by me from a book.
Marnie Fogg "1980s fashion print"

Print Inspiration

Apart of this assignment is to design a print.  It is not required to be used at the end for our garment but we must show that we can design one.

For my research I have looked into different prints.  Indian prints, sarees.  I have looked at what elements make up Indian prints/textiles.

One big part of Indian dress is colour and texture. Primary colours of royal blue, fushia, orange gold and green.  are the major colours used.

Textures are made up of a few different things; there is emboridery, mirror work, rice tie dying and quilting.

A Fashion label which uses colour and print so beautiful through  their collections is Emillo Pucci.
I am such a big fan. I would love to be able to design prints that are so signature like Pucci prints are.
I have sourced a few images of print I like to use as inspiration.

Pucci Paisley.

I love this print it feel very modern. Fireworks maybe?

Image were source from the book "Pucci"