issues:
- getting the right lines on the back of the swimsuit
- elastication is hard to get perfect
- the twin needle struggle in sewing through large amounts of fabric - and tends to put holes in my garment around vital places.
- getting correct shoulder seams and a nice clean line around the entire body.
I lost my first sample which was done in this beautiful blue shimmery kinda of lycra fabric. Soooo i am a little dissapointed, but I did resolve many issues that I was facing. The pattern making issues i faced were changing the seam line of the cape so that it didn't go into the shoulder seam - as there was too much fabric meeting at one place. I also didn't know how to fit the cape in the low back, and how to put depth of the cape in the pattern. Gillian helped wonderfully with this though! I also was unsure about what hem to put down the sides and on the bottom of my cape - but through sample review it was decided to have a rolled hem (baby overlock) - as this is cleaner and neater. My only fear of this is that it will go really curly, but i will try my hardest not to stretch the fabric at all when putting it through the machine. Other issues.....the lining i found really hard because often the overlocker wouldn't catch the fabric - and then i would have to unpick it and then the fabric would stretch out of place...a vicious cycle! the resolution to my problem is to be more careful, not rush and possibly even do a stay stitch before i start on the overlocker. At times i'm trying to make sure it catches 6 layers of fabric - no wonder some get missed.
Overall I'm pretty happy with the garment, it was exactly the look I was going for - plain, simple, elegant, luxurious, visually pleasing and aesthetically significant - i love design really simple but somewhat effective - and I'm often displeased with my final garments as they can be too simple etc etc....but i'm really happy with this one - now for the sewing of the real thing!!! :-)
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