All of the holiday time has been devoted to finishing Elisabethan Stay and catching up with making Macbeth Gentleman’s costume. At first, Kathleen suggested that I find a similar pattern to the costume I was going to make, constructing the pattern, and then fitting it on a model. But at that time, I thought that the pattern might be too different from the size of the real model, so I decided to drape directly on the mannequin. To my surprise, I spent a lot of time on draping.
And then I thought about the process. It would be better to draw a rough flat pattern first, and then drape it on the mannequin. This will save a lot of time. This may be the biggest reward for taking a detour. So I bought an adult-size pattern-making ruler for shirts, pants and sleeves, which should improve efficiency making clothes next time. Compared with the shirt and pants, the sleeves spent the most time when draping, always adjusting the shape of the sleeves, and finally I felt satisfied. But when I sew these pieces together, because the sleeve are not properly shaped, the rest of the garment is pulled up into wrinkles, but the overall effect is fine.
The model told me that he found two problems. One was that I need to add some fabric on stomach because he was a little fat. The other one is that the knee is a little bit tight when he bend his leg.
