Last Day Before Holiday Break

As usual, the last day always involves a lot of work.

We did the classic tailored pant block at school today and different pant patterns. There was a lot of measurements involved so we didn't get to making the pattern for the tailored pant block. I didn't even finish doing the different pant lenghts.

R said we are supposed to do an assessment immediately after vacation but she might postpone it. Not sure if she will. M, on the other hand, said we'll be having an assessement for our garment construction class after we get back from the break. sigh.

And I still haven't decided on what to focus on for my Fashion Forecasting homework. Dang.

Assessment Done

For Patternmaking and Garment Construction. Finished the 6 Gore Skirt last Monday and the Assessment for Patternmaking - Front and Back Yoke Skirt today. Got my first ever perfect score for my 5th scale. Wohoo!

The Patternmaking assessment was worth 50% according to R. So if the Grading was part of the assessment. The total would only be 75%. Hmm...how come? I thought they always do them by the 100. Oh well.

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Started on fashion forecasting. Need lots of photos for my Journal. I'm excited though. Will try to take photos when done. =)

Assessments and Marks

Last week, we started having our assessment, a test to be basic about it. For Garment Construction, we had to sew a whole skirt with two scoop pockets infront including facing. No waistband this time. The connecting seams would be a combination of open seam and closed seam.

I finished the front part last week. I still had problems with the overlocker especially with the scooped pockets. They weren't that bad just annoying to have the threads running off. Redoing it isn't a good idea since it would mean taking out a few millimeters to put in the overlocked threads and I'm still not good at determining acurately the exact millimeters and thus I take out as much as half a centimeter when I'm re-overlocking.

Will continue tomorrow.

For patternmaking, we started the assessment last week with the Grading of patterns (forgot the exact term). We learned how to increase and decrease the size of a pattern. For the nesting, showing three different pattern sizes based on one size (Size 10, we used the Tailored Straight Skirt and increased the size to Size 12 then down to Size 8. We did the same for the waistband. I got a perfect score for that one. Yippee for me.

On a sad note, I got a lousy mark for the Basic CAD course. I received the Certificates from last year and I'm peeved. How did I get such a low mark???? Tomorrow, I'm going to ask. It probably wouldn't change anything but at least I'd see where I made mistakes.