Almost there

 The jacket pattern pieces were quite large so I had to work out the best way to cut them out in my fabric with minimal waste.

 The lining was an obstacle as I did not have enough to cut the pieces out whole.

In the end I had to seperate one of the pieces into seperate sections and cut the smaller pieces out of the remaining fabric.

Don't forget the sleeve

 Seeing as I was least confident with the sleeve it made sense to me to work it out first. The sleeve block we had in the studio was a bit to short for my design so I had to extend it. I also made the shoulder larger to accommodate a shoulder pad.

I had some mock button holes added to the end of the sleeve for some extra detail.

Grace Jones, this one's for you

 Pretty much all of the jacket pattern was made by using techniques I've been taught over the past few years. There was no block for a 'one-shouldered asymmetrical flared jacket' so I had to make my own.

I'm very happy with the fit of the jacket so I will be cutting out in my chosen fabric next week.

Hitch up that hem

 All that was left was to even the hem with the lining of the dress so that when it was sewn shut you wouldn't see any of the lining. I had to trim it slightly shorter than the length of the dress so that it wouldn't slip out when moving.

 All that was left was to sew it shut!

And here is the finished dress. And now for the jacket...

Blinding binding

 The original design called for the dress to be bagged out at the top, but the thickness of the fabric and the many layers that the collar detail had added made the dress too stiff to turn out without looking lumpy and amateurish. Instead I cut a strip of fabric on the bias and used it as binding to neaten the dress.

 Seeing as I didn't have mush fabric left I had to cut several strips and join them together before using them as binding for the top of the dress.

Final fabric fabulousness

 I finally started cutting out in my chosen fabric. It was quite nerve racking as I didn't have enough fabric to make a second dress if I made any mistakes. This pressure was kind of beneficial in a way as it made me focus more on the task at hand.

I spent a lot of time working on the collar as I had quite a bit of trouble with this in the toile stage.

Finishing touches

 The collar detail for the top of the dress was quite difficult to make as there was no pattern I could follow, so I had to draw one freehand and adjust it if any mistakes were made.

As you can see I clearly didn't measure the length properly and ended up with the collar coming up too short and not fitting into the side seam.