week one- 4th and 5th day

Day four- Thursday 26^th April

10am-3:30pm
it was a short day today, as the designer called the interns in by accident we was post to have Thursday off.

My first task for the day was to sew together the sleeve linings, press them (only using the tip of the iron) and then pin them to the rest of the jacket lining. When you pin the linings together, you must pin on alternating sides to ensure that the sleeve lining is spread evenly. As shown in the image above.

The inside welt pocket was already done by the designer. I took at photograph of it because it was made really well and was really strong. in a way i felt like this represented the quality and the standard of the House of Sunny garments.

I then was working again on the dogtooth trousers, that I was unpicking yesterday. Needed to add a black to both hips.

The photograph above is of the grey trousers with the black hip panels. The photograph illustrates what i was going to be adding to the dog tooth trousers.

I pinned the zip in, then sew it to the trousers, and then topstitched it to finish it off. The first top stitching that I did was too far away from the zip, so I had to unpick it. Unfortunately the stitch had marked the fabric, I was trying to get it out with the iron but it was not happening.  I will have to unpick all the work tomorrow, which is really annoying because the trousers were looking really good. 

Today we also found when the collection was due for. The house of Sunny team has about weeks to make seven two piece suits for a product photo-shoot on the 18th May.

Day five- Friday 27^th April

10am-3pm

Sunny Williams had another meeting up in London again and so had to send interns home early. I am hoping that he does not have as many meetings next week, so I can work on the collection more.

Today was another day that started with unpicking on trousers. I was taking out the right hip panel on the dog tooth trousers, which was not made easy by the fabric that easily frayed. This made everything look really messy.

I started again on the panel by cutting it out and repeating all the steps that I had done yesterday. I had got the zip in was about to turn it over to top stitch it and then noticed that the black panel somehow looked smaller than the left one. So the day was not going to well.

So I moved on to sewing in the sleeve lining, that I had pinned yesterday on the red jacket. Sunny does not put gathers into cap of the sleeve, he just puts a pleat in which I found much earlier and thought that it looked nicer. Finishing off my first week at ‘HofS’, I pressed out all the seams on the lining.

With the promise of fabric shopping, I am looking forward to next week.