Constructing the collar..

Today I began working on the main part of the collar. This began with, as you can see, a piece of calico that I simply draped on the mannequin. I made sure this sat flat against the back of the mannequin and also on the front. To create these big pleats over the shoulder, I gathered the fabric until it sat in the correct place. I then pinned it in place and marked on the design lines on the front. This piece stretched over half of the toille as I seem to be running out of calico and have to be fairly creative when cutting!

Front.

Close up.

Side.  

Pictures of the main collar constructed in a double layer of calico with no decoration.

I then worked on the decoration. For this I simply marked out lines that were 1cm away from each other and stitiched them with black thread. This is just to signify the fabric decoration tht is in the picture as I am not able to do much more decoration due to lack of time!!

I then went on to create the smaller part of the collar. I created this much the same as before by laying calico onto the mannequin and cutting a piece to the correct shape. I then cut these out and stitched them to another piece of calico so that they were substancial enough to sit on their own.

I then hand stitched the collar onto the toille to secure it before machine stitching it.

The collar!

I will not secure down the CF by turning it over slightly and stitching it on the machine. This means that all edges will be secure and look neat for hand in on wednesday.