Finishing the Patterning for my Orb Weaver Shirt

Today I finished patterning my Orb Weaver Shirt Patterns

 I used the Shirt Sleeve Block and created my pattern by spreading the pattern slightly to add more ease.

I then created my shirt collar patterns.

And my Shirt Cuff pattern

I did experience any problems with this part of the process.

Toileing my Black Widow Coat

Today has been quite a busy day.  I have progressed well with my coat toile and can see what it is going to be like now.

After cutting out my pattern pieces I started to construct my coat as shown in the images below. 

 When I closed the underarm seam on my sleeve I noticed that the seams didn't quite match so this is something I will have to look out for when producing my final garment.

 After attaching my first sleeve I noticed that I had attached it to the wrong side (I could tell by the longer side being at the front) so I went back to my block and added the important notches that I had forgotten to make sure this didn't happen again.  I removed it and attached the sleeve again (this time on the right side).

After the main structure of my toile was complete I slightly fitted it on one side (Right side of the picture below) to give it a nicer and more flattering shape.  I then adapted my patterns and I plan to apply this to the other side aswell.

Patterning My Black Widow Coat

Today I have been starting to pattern my Black Widow Coat toile.

To start off with I had to create a Classic Coat block and a Coat Sleeve block.

 I experienced quite a few problems when creating these.

The first problem I can across was with the classic coat blocks, I used a few wrong measurements but luckily I was able to correct these before they caused a major problem.

The other problem that I had was when creating the Coat Sleeve block, The problem I had here was that I found it hard to understand the instructions for making this block but eventually I got my head around what it was asking me to do and I was able to finish it.

Next I started to pattern my coat design.

I didn't experience any problems when creating these and was able to create these basic patterns quite quickly.

Adapting my Patterns

Now that my toile is finished I need to make any adaptations to my patterns.  In my case I need to make my outer later patterns 2cm bigger to add more volume and taper them in at the bottom.

First I added the 2cm all the way around the piece.

Then I measured the ankle and took the difference between this and my pattern piece of each side equally.  Then I gradually extended this back to the correct width.

I then repeated this with the other piece.

When this was done I could cut the pieces out of my final fabric.

Trouser Patterns

Well you might remember in a previous post I told you about my trouser design that I will be making in my pattern cutting lessons.  Well after creating some samples of the difficult areas I have created my patterns.  Here are pictures showing how I made them: