Hope you all had a very happy and safe July 4th!!!! This week we accomplished a lot !!!!
Serging: Make sure you marked your notches and dots before you take your pattern pieces off the cut fabric. We embroidered a pocket for our robes – last week. The next thing to sew up is the shoulder seams and sleeves in the armholes. Remember to serge your sleeve bands on before serging the sleeves to the armholes. It occurred to me, that the technique for sewing in the sleeves in the armholes – WITHOUT PINS – could be new for some of you, so I will demo this on Monday morning. THIS IS A GREAT TECHNIQUE. Once you learn it, you will use it all the time. You won’t be using many pins any more. After you sew up your shoulder seams and sleeves, it is time for a fitting. We need to place the pockets perfectly and we need to decide where we will be putting our belt loops. If you have the time, work ahead. Sew (straight stitch) up your pockets with the lining fabric. Slit the lining fabric and turn your pockets right side out. Iron them flat. We will need them ready for the fitting. If you have time, serge on your neck band.
Basic Sewing: Now that you have serged up your fabric pieces, it is time to repin the patterns to the fabric and mark your notches, and dots, etc. Make sure your notches are all marked with china marker, pencil, etc. Clipping the notches and dots through the serging will defeat the purpose of the serging which is to keep the fabric from unraveling. About ½ of you embroidered your pocket. Start sewing your nightshirt together with the shoulder seams. You can then put in your sleeves FLAT and start work on your neckline. I will demo all of this. I will also demo putting your pockets together. Then we can have our first garment fitting. We will see how the neckline fits after it is staystiched. We will place our pocket in a GREAT spot.
Patternmaking: We started working on our pants draft. It is time to finish it this week and start to make muslin toiles of the draft. The leggings can be tested in a 4-way stretch knit.
DON’T WORRY SO MUCH. I got many emails stating that they didn’t like what was happening to their drafts. You need to realize that the drafts will reflect what the measurements tell them. Once we make the toiles, we can tweak the fabric and take the tweaking back to the patterns. Remember, the final fabric pants are the end result of all the drafting and tweaking. Everyone’s measurements are different because everyone’s body is slightly different. When you manufacture clothing, you take an AVERAGE of the body type you want to fit. Trust me. This is how designers make millions in the mass market. Calvin Klein made his money by fitting rear ends. Donna Karen fits people with big boobs. Ralph Lauren lowered the crotch on gentlemen’s jeans. AND SO ON. This is NOT couture. This is for the millions of people who need to buy from the mass market and can not afford to spend $500 – $5,000 on one garment. Come and finish up the pants draft with me. For those of you who were not there for the last class, we are #17 of the two dart pants sloper in your handout. This is where we will begin on Wednesday, July 8th.
In Embroidery, we did pocket toppers. (Of course, I didn’t finish mine. I am trying to cover up a hole that my wondrous husband put in his shirt. We learned how and why to use a template. This week, we will be doing an all in the hoop project. It is the teddy bear from our text book. For those of you with embroidery machines, I would strongly suggest that you input this design DIRECTLY into your machine. It is too big for the amazing box cards. I did make it into a 4 by 4 design. BUT…I have NO IDEA how it will stitch out.
Of course, I did NOT get to put the Sewing 10 Commandments onto the blog site. I will need to do this…during the August break. Watch for it…it is coming. I found them all !!!!
This coming Saturday, July 11, there is a Fandango to the Whittier Museum. We will be eating breakfast in Laguna Hills and lunch in Whittier before driving back to San Diego. The Whittier Museum is having a room display of their Women’s underwear. The name of this exhibit is entitled: Underneath it all: The Evolution of Women’s Undergarments.” Sounds like a great learning experience to me !!!!! This is why I invited you all to come.
This Fandango has NOTHING to do with the school. It has NOTHING to do with my courses. It is just something extra I will be doing and if you want to come, you are welcome to come. The school has NOTHING to do with this. AND if you don’t want to come….this is fine. We will just be using the WCC parking lot. Some of you will be drivers. Some of you will be riders. We will be car pooling. IF YOU ARE A RIDER….MAKE SURE TO PAY FOR PART OF THE GAS TO GO. Be sure to make arrangements in this week’s class.
We will be having a docent tour at 1 PM at the Whittier Museum. The tour will include the entire museum. This includes the history of Whittier, Nixon, a military hallway and the gallery where the underwear exhibit will be. Note: Nixon grew up in Whittier. AND the museum is two floors. The docent tour takes about 1 hour. I am told there are many restaurants around the museum, so that we can have lunch before the drive back.
The entire Fandango is NO HOST. All food will be NO HOST. Breakfast may be eaten at Luisa’s Café. There is a pink umbrella there. This is one building over from A Time to Sew. A Time to Sew is on the Quilter’s run so it will be open at 9 AM.
I am making maps for the drivers. Those of you who have been on Fandangos with me previously, know that my maps are…NOT PERFECT. I have included phone numbers for you to call the shops/museum in case you need to. I suggest you make your own maps with the addresses I am going to give you here. OR program and take the family GPS. We will MEET AT THE WEST CITY CENTER PARKING LOT ON SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2009 BY 8 AM…….. I will be giving out the maps on Saturday morning.
A Time to Sew
Owner: Martha
27071 Cabot Road
Suite 101
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
949-282-0084
Whittier Museum
http://www.whittiermuseum.org/
6755 Newlin Avenue
Whittier, California 90601
562-945-3871
It is at the corner of Newlin and Philadelphia
See you all in class this week and on Saturday !!!!!
Serging: Make sure you marked your notches and dots before you take your pattern pieces off the cut fabric. We embroidered a pocket for our robes – last week. The next thing to sew up is the shoulder seams and sleeves in the armholes. Remember to serge your sleeve bands on before serging the sleeves to the armholes. It occurred to me, that the technique for sewing in the sleeves in the armholes – WITHOUT PINS – could be new for some of you, so I will demo this on Monday morning. THIS IS A GREAT TECHNIQUE. Once you learn it, you will use it all the time. You won’t be using many pins any more. After you sew up your shoulder seams and sleeves, it is time for a fitting. We need to place the pockets perfectly and we need to decide where we will be putting our belt loops. If you have the time, work ahead. Sew (straight stitch) up your pockets with the lining fabric. Slit the lining fabric and turn your pockets right side out. Iron them flat. We will need them ready for the fitting. If you have time, serge on your neck band.
Basic Sewing: Now that you have serged up your fabric pieces, it is time to repin the patterns to the fabric and mark your notches, and dots, etc. Make sure your notches are all marked with china marker, pencil, etc. Clipping the notches and dots through the serging will defeat the purpose of the serging which is to keep the fabric from unraveling. About ½ of you embroidered your pocket. Start sewing your nightshirt together with the shoulder seams. You can then put in your sleeves FLAT and start work on your neckline. I will demo all of this. I will also demo putting your pockets together. Then we can have our first garment fitting. We will see how the neckline fits after it is staystiched. We will place our pocket in a GREAT spot.
Patternmaking: We started working on our pants draft. It is time to finish it this week and start to make muslin toiles of the draft. The leggings can be tested in a 4-way stretch knit.
DON’T WORRY SO MUCH. I got many emails stating that they didn’t like what was happening to their drafts. You need to realize that the drafts will reflect what the measurements tell them. Once we make the toiles, we can tweak the fabric and take the tweaking back to the patterns. Remember, the final fabric pants are the end result of all the drafting and tweaking. Everyone’s measurements are different because everyone’s body is slightly different. When you manufacture clothing, you take an AVERAGE of the body type you want to fit. Trust me. This is how designers make millions in the mass market. Calvin Klein made his money by fitting rear ends. Donna Karen fits people with big boobs. Ralph Lauren lowered the crotch on gentlemen’s jeans. AND SO ON. This is NOT couture. This is for the millions of people who need to buy from the mass market and can not afford to spend $500 – $5,000 on one garment. Come and finish up the pants draft with me. For those of you who were not there for the last class, we are #17 of the two dart pants sloper in your handout. This is where we will begin on Wednesday, July 8th.
In Embroidery, we did pocket toppers. (Of course, I didn’t finish mine. I am trying to cover up a hole that my wondrous husband put in his shirt. We learned how and why to use a template. This week, we will be doing an all in the hoop project. It is the teddy bear from our text book. For those of you with embroidery machines, I would strongly suggest that you input this design DIRECTLY into your machine. It is too big for the amazing box cards. I did make it into a 4 by 4 design. BUT…I have NO IDEA how it will stitch out.
Of course, I did NOT get to put the Sewing 10 Commandments onto the blog site. I will need to do this…during the August break. Watch for it…it is coming. I found them all !!!!
This coming Saturday, July 11, there is a Fandango to the Whittier Museum. We will be eating breakfast in Laguna Hills and lunch in Whittier before driving back to San Diego. The Whittier Museum is having a room display of their Women’s underwear. The name of this exhibit is entitled: Underneath it all: The Evolution of Women’s Undergarments.” Sounds like a great learning experience to me !!!!! This is why I invited you all to come.
This Fandango has NOTHING to do with the school. It has NOTHING to do with my courses. It is just something extra I will be doing and if you want to come, you are welcome to come. The school has NOTHING to do with this. AND if you don’t want to come….this is fine. We will just be using the WCC parking lot. Some of you will be drivers. Some of you will be riders. We will be car pooling. IF YOU ARE A RIDER….MAKE SURE TO PAY FOR PART OF THE GAS TO GO. Be sure to make arrangements in this week’s class.
We will be having a docent tour at 1 PM at the Whittier Museum. The tour will include the entire museum. This includes the history of Whittier, Nixon, a military hallway and the gallery where the underwear exhibit will be. Note: Nixon grew up in Whittier. AND the museum is two floors. The docent tour takes about 1 hour. I am told there are many restaurants around the museum, so that we can have lunch before the drive back.
The entire Fandango is NO HOST. All food will be NO HOST. Breakfast may be eaten at Luisa’s Café. There is a pink umbrella there. This is one building over from A Time to Sew. A Time to Sew is on the Quilter’s run so it will be open at 9 AM.
I am making maps for the drivers. Those of you who have been on Fandangos with me previously, know that my maps are…NOT PERFECT. I have included phone numbers for you to call the shops/museum in case you need to. I suggest you make your own maps with the addresses I am going to give you here. OR program and take the family GPS. We will MEET AT THE WEST CITY CENTER PARKING LOT ON SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2009 BY 8 AM…….. I will be giving out the maps on Saturday morning.
A Time to Sew
Owner: Martha
27071 Cabot Road
Suite 101
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
949-282-0084
Whittier Museum
http://www.whittiermuseum.org/
6755 Newlin Avenue
Whittier, California 90601
562-945-3871
It is at the corner of Newlin and Philadelphia
See you all in class this week and on Saturday !!!!!
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