Homeworks

Had to do my History of Fashion for Fashion Design class. Procastinated, and I mean, really procastinated thus I had to do some late evenings, can't really say all-nighter because I did manage to get some 4-hour-sleeps.

Anyway, performance in Patternmaking and Garment Construction classes were affected. My eye and hand coordination were bad. I had to really concentrate to understand what was being said. In Garment Construction, I had to unpick my threads several times and it took me the entire day just to finish the waistband on my skirt.

I got my scores for my Patternmaking and my effort paid off for the first set of 5th scales. Didn't get perfect scores but I did get 1 seven and 3 8s out of 10. So it's good. It's the second set that will probably get low marks since I was doing them at night when I couldn't even clearly see what I'm doing. Reminder to self: buy bulbs for the lamp.

Promised myself never to procastinate. Not sure if I can keep my promise but I'll try. Saying that, I have to work on my other 5th scales now.

Half-a-Skirt

Technically, not half-a-skirt; it's a straight skirt with vent but I wasn't able to finish it today so I'm calling it that. Then again, I only need to do the waistband so I suppose that would be 3/4 skirt. hehehe

I managed to construct the garment better than last time, except for the overlocking. Darn thing still needs to be mastered by me. But I will conquer it!

I'm getting the technicalities now. I understand why things are the way they are (where to put the notches and why)rather than just blindly following. I've learned to slow down rather than trying to keep up and not understanding at all. And I've gotten more assertive when it comes to getting the teachers' attention. And it worked to my advantage, too. =)

Still have to do my Fashion Design. Aaarrgggh. I kept saying that but I still haven't made heads or tails of the piles of info I've collected.

Getting the Hang Of It

Took things slow today at Garment Construction Class. After the pressure and frustration trying of to keep up last week (Different Kinds of Seams, I decided to take things slow and be more assertive in getting the teacher's attention. Hey, it worked!

Of course, it didn't come without glitches. As usual, the sewing machine I chose had problems with it. I thought it was just my inability to control the speed of the foot pedal but after M checked it twice and didn't get the problem resolved, I decided to ditch it and choose another one. Unfortunately, the 4 vacant ones all had problems with them so I asked to use the automatic one, the one I used the first time.

Should have done it earlier since that sewing machine and I just worked wonderfully. Could've saved me all those times of sewing and resewing all those seams.

We did the back of a skirt today including darts and zipper. Was sooo time consuming not to mention laborious. But it was all good. The importance of measuring the centimeters and keeping those measurments were being reinforced. Hopefully, I do well next week when we do the full skirt.

On other subjects, I need to finish up my Fashion Design assignment. Whew!