Hello Hive
It is with a smile that I often step into the community all of the time. Yesterday has been a lovely one so far as lots of your beautiful creations flooded the community. I was happy to go through them all and to appreciate your time and effort in keeping the community active.
For my projects this week, I have learned something quite important: it is said that we cannot continually repeat the same thing or process and expect different results. Henceforth, while working on any new projects or outfits, I will like to try out different methods and see what I can achieve with that.
I have sewn countless blouses and outfits now, yet I still feel the need to get better finishing for my clothes.
So for making this blouse, I decided to explore a different approach to see if it will make any difference in the final blouse.
I have heard from some seamstresses that it is good to iron out some fabrics before cutting them; this I have taken for granted until I decided to try it today and see if it will make any difference.
Although I was meant to iron out the fabric first before even cutting it, I decided to manage and cut this first.
Here I had cut the front and back pieces. Then I cut out the sleeves for the blouse. And decided to add a plain fabric to it just to enhance its looks.
After cutting, I took it to the ironing table and first ironed out the pieces before sewing.
It was then that I was able to cut the necklines, been one of the important parts that gets really affected when making clothes
Just as it was expected, the measurements were inaccurate and now larger than what I had measured out initially. This isn't a mistake from me; don't get me wrong. Each time a fabric is over-squeezed and they go ahead to cut and sew without first ironing it, it affects our measurements; it's either the outfit gets shortened by a measurement or it gets enlarged, which is exactly what happened here.
After ironing, I had to retake the measurements and recut the clothes one more time.
Then I proceeded to sew this, from the back neckline first, adding a very neat keyhole, following some more guidelines of notching and the likes in orner to get a more neater finishing and since the blouse won't be having a zipper I needed to make a clean armhole here.
Next was Sewing the various seams together and another final ironing.
My sister had come visiting earlier on; hence, I have used her measurements to try this out.
I was glad that the blouse had a better finish and neatness both within and without. And I truly understood the importance of the basic lessons we often ignore.
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