'Get to the part where i lose my temper!'

Today was our last day working on the shirt for the costume store. Tempers were running high and there was a lot pressure to complete before the end of term. Having felt fairly relaxed over the last 2 weeks i knew what i had to do so felt confident that i could finish before the day was through, however when i came to attaching my collar i came across a problem and all work seized!

A problem i failed to see at the the start back when i was cutting my fabric was that the collar piece did not match up to the size of the neck on the shirt. Like when given any pattern to work from we're taught to always first go over and double check to make sure all the pattern pieces line up and coincide with each other, however this part of the shirt was overlooked.

Because this has been such a nuiscance and has set me back in terms of time, it's been a strong learning curve for me as i can now appreciate and put in to practise everytime i start a new costume how important it is to check over pattern pieces. This is something i'm going to do religiously at the very beginning of a project in order to save time and trouble.

Having painstakingly made my pleats for the pie crust collar all to the exact same size, it was a huge frustration when i came to put the collar on and found that the shirt neck was much larger then the collar piece. An issue that shouldn't be too hard to resolve, alas i was annoyed that i wasn't able to have my shirt completed and ticked off so that i was ready to put all my focus on the next garment for the costume store when back after Easter.

Each box pleat had to measure exactly 2.5cm wide all the way along  in order to ensure a consistent pie crust collar.

All that i have left to do on my shirt now is correct the collar problem and make button holes down the front plackett and on the cuffs, a task that will hopefully get done in one late night study session after the Easter break.