Industrious Composition

Basting a large amount of silk fabric pieces

..and basting them in sequence.

Cutting silk collar pieces alongside nap

Cutting the individual pieces..

 
pleated silk shoulderpiece and collar

..and ironing in the folds.

intricate collar construction for gothic blouse

Stitching the seams together..

 

Prompted by the delicate shine of the fabric, all 33 parts that make up this collar had to be cut alongside the same direction of the silky weave, introducing a total of 48 seams and darts that had to be basted and sewn before what might have been world’s most demanding ironing job could bring the whole formation to shape.

5 Comments.

  1. LucifersBride

    OMG I never had attached it with hand to each other… I’m way to lazy for this. I just use my sewingmachine and only loosen the thread, so that I can easily pull it out when it isn’t needed anymore.
    And my congrats that you survived ironing it. It taked a lot of patience for perfect pleats ^^

  2. I always baste non-straight seams and by now it’s become such an automation that I wouldn’t even think of not doing so for such a precise project. :razz:

    The ironing was hell. It needed huge amount of steam for making sure the pleats would lie flat without the seam allowances pushing through. >.<

  3. I might have added a light fleece under the silky fabric because I can imagen that the boarders are very streatchy, are they?
    (And also to keep the form after ironing)

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  5. The notion of adding interfacing has been an on-and-off thought throughout the process. I finally opted not to do it because of the already high combined pleat-weight (3 layers fabric + 3 lining + seam allowances), but you are right the bias stretching was a horrible factor to deal with ^_^;

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