I've then been work on pad stitching the shoulder canvas, hair canvas and breast felt to the jacket front. I'm still yet to pad stitch the lapels to give them shape, i'm predicting this will take a while to do judging by the size of my lapels.
I started work on my trousers, I have managed to line them with black cotton and overlock them, ready to put them together with piping down the side seams.
According to my learning agreement I was timetabled that I would have my trousers to near completion stage by Thursday. However, I haven't stuck to this plan because of the amount of work I've been doing on the Jacket. I will do the trousers in the time I've planned to complete my jacket.
I've been in a dilemma about what decoration to use on the jacket. I was planning to just have beads. However, when I created a sample, I found that they made the jacket look slightly 'Elvis'-like. Another option I will experiment with next week is embroidery - one idea Joe had was to embroider some of The Rileys song lyrics onto the costume. My new idea is to do this and still put some beads into it so that it links Joe's costume with Dave's and James's.
I feel like more could have been completed this week but I've been in limbo a few times when I haven't known how to move forward. Now that I know, I hope that I will achieve more in the coming weeks before the second fitting.
This is a photoshop experiment I did to get a vague idea of how it might look to have embroidered lyrics in the lapel. And A picture of the lyrics on their own:
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