Cut of the Cloth

Sorry its taken me so long to update this...I went out of town and Acadia is loaded down with multiple school activities. BUT we have gotten something done. Last, last weekend we had a sleep over and took to the fact that scissors were very fun to wield.

Yes, you read that right, we wielded scissors.



pinning of right front piece



As of the last post, we had scaled and cut out our "custom fit" patterns. We decided it was time to cut into the black fabric.

We started by wrangling the fabric on to the table. It was a test of wills, us+wood table vs. slippery fabric. Half the time we were laying on the table trapping the fabric while the other did her thing. 

We first pinned the lovely pattern to the victim of choice. Usually we did about three or four pattern pieces at a time.

Tracing around the pattern, we ended up using a white colored pencil (Crayola works best). This gave us a good idea when it came down to the sewing where to point the needle.



In the middle of doing pleating lines on left front piece



Though, there was quite a large amount of chalk drawing from my end. This turned out to be a bad bad idea. Do you realize how much chalk can smear? Let's just say there will be some interestingly gray pieces.

Enough said.

 
We did find, that when your doing lines inside the pattern sheet (AKA pleating lines) having someone who knows how to fold paper is a good thing.

Acadia and I carefully folded back half the pattern (keeping some of the pins in mind you) and did those lines. It worked out better than I thought for just running off of caffeine in the morning.



finished right front piece...one more to go!



Chopping had to be the best part though, constantly, we forgot about leaving extra room for piping (extra half inch). So, it'll be interesting when we get to sewing that. As a rule of thumb, we left a half an inch to an inch around the white lines. That's without the lines that piping, just add another half for with. 

Discovering earlier that the sleeves were to small, we cut them bbbbiiiggggg. When we get to fitting it we'll cut them down. Better safe then sorry in my option. Again, since we didn't know about the shoulders either, we cut big as well. 

Here is the interesting fact, we cut both of our fabric out of 4.5 yards. Remember what I said earlier about needing 5.5 yards each? Nah, so we are returning happily 6 yards of unused cloth.

Note, our pieces where cut out of 52 (or 42) inch wide yards. That might be the difference and also the fact we aren't fully grown humanoids.

That's it for now, but I'm still worried about this pattern sheet...if it was wrong on the amount of fabric then...what else could be wrong?

Oi...that's the reason I'm blogging this. So you know ahead of time and to keep me sane through out this process.

Yeah right.

-Winn

ps. FINALLY got "the people" and "Who/What is Organization XIII?" updated