Inquiry Project: For my inquiry project, I have finished the top part of the dress, and have the sleeves ready to be sewn onto the dress, yet I haven’t finished the skirt part of the dress. This week, I will be working on the skirt of the dress and finish it by Friday. Moreover, something that I had trouble with for this dress was fitting, but I have found a solution to them. The top part of the dress is too long, so I will be cutting off a bit of the bottom. Another thing is that it was very difficult to wear the top, therefore I attached a zipper in the back which made it a lot easier for me to wear. Something that is going well is that the dress is looking very similar to what I imagined it to look like, which isn’t something that was common in the past when I first started making dresses. This ideally indicates that I have improved a lot and I will continue to get better.

Musical Theatre/Trashion dress: For the musical theatre dress, I haven’t yet completed it, yet I am very close to finishing it. All there is left to do is add some detail and embellishments, and make the dress longer with an additional underskirt since the dress turned out to be too short due to the size of the original dress that was used to create this dress. Moreover, this was my first time making a dress with such volume and length, therefore it was quite difficult to sew the layers together, but everything turned out well and I am very satisfied and proud of the result/how it’s looking. Something that I would do differently for next time would be to make sure that the length of the dress would be correct, and just overall plan more before the making of the dress. I want to have another colour other than pink, but I still don’t know what secondary colour I’d like to add and what embellishments I want the dress to have.

Mood board: My mood board for my “Lab Coat” was very successful. It fits my lab coat perfectly and I learned a lot from making it. I learned different techniques to display fabric such as pinning them in place, and I also think that my eye for positioning has improved. I’ve also experimented with many different things such as the ripped transparent paper I used for the title. Something that I’m not too satisfied with are the sketches I included. They were very rushed and rough, and also, the white colour pops too much in my opinion. If I were to do it again, I would take some more time to work on it and also sketch it on tan sketchbook paper or actual sketchbook paper since I used printer paper for the sketches. Overall, I am very satisfied with the way my mood board turned out and I hope to make more mood boards in the future as they were very amusing to make.

Doll pants and apron: