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[Zweihammer Wappenrock] Diary entry #2
Jun. 23rd, 2008 01:11 pmHere's what I did this weekend, worked on the Wappenrock commission!
The project has been progressing behind the scenes for the last month. I'm behind on diary entries, but making the mockup and how much ease I ended up using isn't really thrilling like actual pictures of construction. Click on the pictures for a larger view.
Here's the design we ended up going with.
Saturday
Spent about 6 hours ironing, cutting and sewing the skirt together. There are 24 sections, alternating black and red. Each section is made of three parts. This was a lot faster to sew than I thought it would be.
Skirt section pieces
Two skirt sections sewn together
Completed skirt
Sunday
Started piecing the body sections. This is the side front flap. I originally was going to strip quilt a large piece of fabric, and then cut the pieces out of that. But after doing a trial layout, and a sample strip section I realized two things.
1- There would be a lot of wasted fabric.
2- Its really hard to keep the seams even with no rippling over 50" wide material.
So I went with a different approach where I laid out the cut strips over the pattern, gave just a little extra on all sides, trimmed to size and then stitched it. The result is a really nice small section with very little waste. You end up using just about every last square inch this way.
Laying out the strips
Cut to size, with a little extra for sewing takeup
Pattern traced out on quilted section, see how little waste there is this way?
Cut out and mounted to linen backing for stability.
The project has been progressing behind the scenes for the last month. I'm behind on diary entries, but making the mockup and how much ease I ended up using isn't really thrilling like actual pictures of construction. Click on the pictures for a larger view.
Here's the design we ended up going with.
Saturday
Spent about 6 hours ironing, cutting and sewing the skirt together. There are 24 sections, alternating black and red. Each section is made of three parts. This was a lot faster to sew than I thought it would be.
Skirt section pieces
Two skirt sections sewn together
Completed skirt
Sunday
Started piecing the body sections. This is the side front flap. I originally was going to strip quilt a large piece of fabric, and then cut the pieces out of that. But after doing a trial layout, and a sample strip section I realized two things.
1- There would be a lot of wasted fabric.
2- Its really hard to keep the seams even with no rippling over 50" wide material.
So I went with a different approach where I laid out the cut strips over the pattern, gave just a little extra on all sides, trimmed to size and then stitched it. The result is a really nice small section with very little waste. You end up using just about every last square inch this way.
Laying out the strips
Cut to size, with a little extra for sewing takeup
Pattern traced out on quilted section, see how little waste there is this way?
Cut out and mounted to linen backing for stability.
