Krysta's stitch binder

This year in school I decided to take a costume construction course because I knew it would help be with my career and with my hobby, and you know what, I came out with a whole bunch of techniques and samples that I can use to refer back to. Everything is made using muslin.

These are hand samplers, they are a hem stitch, whip stitch, and invisible stitch with snaps, hooks, and buttons (one with an added shank)

This is the machine sampler, uses a straight stitch at both 5/8 and 7/8 with a zig zag stitch through the middle. The edges are surged together and the middle of the fabric has my initials traced to show machine maneuverability.

This is a very wrinkled arm hole, but you get the idea, a straight piece to a curved.

This is a gathered sample, a piece of muslin 3 times the other piece to fit together, using 2 rows of basted stitched 5/8 and 7/8, gathered evenly then stitched to the smaller piece

The invisible zipper, basted, ironed, sewn and seam ripped. never has an invisible zipper been so easy.

The button hole is pretty self explanatory. 

we had to create a paper hat pattern, mine is a mock up of an edwardian hat

This is a distressing project, we were given a red dress and my partner and I took the dress and added knife woods and blood and dirt stains, creating a believable distressing for a dress.

A couple things I didn't picture:

A drafted male bodice pattern using the forms we had available in the shop. in the binder is the paper pattern and also a muslin mock up

A swatch sample page. 12 swatches that I found and labeled type based off of weave pattern and texture