The second week Class Exercise (Tailored Shawl Collar)

On the second week we learned, how to sew and to draft a Shawl collar with a hip pocket and without side-seams.

On this pictures you can see the instructions and my own pattern of a shawl collar. The positive aspects of this pattern is, that the pocket hides the end of the front seems and you can transfer the breast dart also into the pocket to cover it. What we have also done in this pattern is, that we joined the front- and backside panels together, so we have no side seems.

All of these aspects were pretty good for thinking about different pattern-designs, and hiding panels and seems. But i have to be honest, if you haven't done it a few times before and you're not concentrated enough, you can make such a lot of little mistakes by constructing the pattern, that you become crazy, when you finally see that nothing fits together.
So am I and so the pattern turned out like a tricky puzzle game. But at the end, when everything fits together, its so amazing easier to sew it than a notched collar.

All of that showed me another time, how more work you spend into the pattern and cutting the fabric, most of the time the sewing will becomes easier!

These pictures show what came out of my puzzle-pattern. On the last picture you can see the space for the pocket and the side-panels without side seam. I used to variate not to much, and to try to follow the advises as mutch as possible, so i can figure out how it works the best.