Making my Pacman skirt

Making my pacman skirt I followed the same procedures as my toile however I interfaced the whole skirt to make the fabric thicker and more sturdy.

 

I also then appliqued eyes on to the front evenly spaced.

For the hem I had to sew the bottom of the binding on and then I had to hand tack the top as the fabric was stretching when I used the sewing machine.

 

After I finished sewing I glued mini cabochons to the hem to add more detail.

 

Thanks for reading!!

Jenny xxx

Pacman skirt toile

Here I'm creating the toile for my Pacman skirt hope you enjoy learning!

 

First I started by drawing a horizontal line the length of my waist measurement, I then drew a vertical line the length that I wanted my skirt to be, and created a rectangle using these measurements. I then split the rectangle in half both ways, and divided the vertical line into 10 even sections

At each other line I drew curved darts and a curved seam at each side, this will create the ball shape I require at the top of my skirt to create my pacman skirt.

 



 

At the hem I drew the same shape as a pacman ghost's feet making sure the curves were an even distance away from each other.

One I finished drawing out the shape I traced over this adding a 1cm seam allowance and cut it out.

 

I then pinned this to my fabric and cut it out.

 

Next I created a template for my darts to ensure I sewed the dart in the right shape.And then sewed all of the darts together.

 

Next I sewed one side together and pined the other whilst i tried it on my friend as she had a dress on with a netted underskirt, and this helped me to decide weather or not the shape was right.

Next I sewed the other side half way up leaving room for a zip

 



 

I then created the waist band by drawing a rectangle 8cm long (to be folded down) and half of my waist measurement wide as I will cut this on the fold. I then added a 4cm button stand and a 1cm seam allowance and cut this out of my fabric.

 

Here I put a notch for the button stand.

I then decided that I didn't want the button stand and took that off and left enough for a 1cm SA

 

I then drew an interfacing for the waist band using only one half of the original. 



Next I sewed the waist band to the skirt wrong sides together on one half of the band 

 

I then folded over and top stitched so the seam was hidden. 

For the edge of the waist I sewed as close as the zip as possible and cut the corner off so the point would be sharper. 

 

Next I traced part of the hem and drew a 4cm SA to create my binding pattern, then added a 1cm SA and cut this out.

 

 

here I sewed one edge of the binding to the skirt hem.

 

I then cut notches in the curves so it would create a better curve when folded over.

I then ironed over 1cm of the top of the binding  and sewed this down.

 



 

For the Eyes I drew a shape for the white part and one for the pupil and then added a 1cm SA

 

Thanks for reading!!

 

Jenny xxx

 

Design Boards

Here are my final design boards, I drew the figures based on Anime characters as it fitted well with my research.

I think my favourite outfit is the top left as I love PacMan!!

I will only actually be making 4 of these outfits, the top 3 and the bottom middle.

Thanks for reading which is your favourite outfit??

Jenny xxx 

Shape Development

The other week I did some shape development using things in my sketchbook to inform my shapes.

I looked at pacman so I decided to cut a pacman ghost chain, here are some of the shapes I came up with

 

I then looked into ice cream and used some of the shapes on the stand.



I also added in a few bows because its me! ^.^

 



 

Thanks for reading!! What do you think of my shape development??

 

Jenny xxx