week 4

Day twelve- Tuesday 15^th may

10am-3:30pm

Today went fast as we finished early; again Sunny had meetings in the afternoon.  A new intern started today, on the promotion side of the business. I was first to arrive out of the interns, and my first task was to cut out sleeve linings, for the black jacket, and attach them to the rest of the lining which I put together at the end of last week. 

This above photograph is of the black silk satin lining I was cutting the lining out of. As you can see he does not iron fabric before it is cut, and draws on seam allowance to the lining.

Once the lining was cut out pressed the pieces, checked they matched up then sew them together. Next I pinned the sleeve lining to the jacket lining, on the stand, and then sew together. Once all the seams were pressed I made an alteration on the lining. The alterations had to match the changes Sunny made on the outer shell of the jacket.

The image above is off the alteration I had to make on the lapels. The lapels were not fitting right on the body; it was 3cm too big and so had to be taken out.

The next step was to transfer the alterations to the paper patterns. Then I had to measure the arm holes and tops of the sleeves patterns, on the outer shell and linings. To finish off the day I made the alterations on the paper patterns.