This week was pretty manic as I knew I had to order my rhinestone crystals for the jacket collar and added fabric that I plan to use for the reverse applique to go underneath my top fabric and be stitched around asap so as they would arrive in time to be able to apply to james' costume before the fitting! However, Price was something I needed to consider; I knew these would not be cheap; but i knew buying them ion bulk as I wished to do would make it much cheaper and generally buying internationally; the rhinestones would be cheaper to! (However I would have to consider the postage and packaging price on top of the cost of the decorative materials/ components too!) Therefore I spent a lot of time this week scanning the internet for the best price for what I wanted. The preknitted knitted thin wire that I would be using for the reverse applique I found very easily and was very reasonably priced with free shipping included too! The website offered a variety of colours; however I was satisfied and sure the colour i had picked could not change that much from the colour I saw it as on screen! I therefore checked the refund policy; which was not so cost considerate; however I did not feel worried that the wire would be wrong!
However, When ordering the beads, I came across many different types that I had not seen before and would be very appropriate but due to me combining 2 different size of bead and colour for the collar, I needed to consider this when ordering them. I needed to make sure that the style would compliment one another and the colours would! This made it a very long and hard decision as I could not see them to compare them visually as they were, instead seeing them flat and putting the square of colour palette next to one another; i had to come to a decision! This worried me a little bit as the rhinestones would be costing more than the fabric and as this seller was an international seller, as was the seller of the other option of rhinestone i liked; it would be a reasonable amount of time for them to be devivered anyway and i did not feel i would have time to send them back if they didnt go; and reorder the others; plus this would be added, careless waste of my budget!
I decided to email the two sellers and check the swarovski rhinestones listed as the swarvski size and colour were actually the size and shape and colour which they are on the official swarovski cystal websight page! This was useful for me to do, as this i had a chart for at hand from having bought these crystals already! This would provide me with more confidence with my decision!
Having recieved confirmation from the first seller; which was the seller of one of the swarovski cystal packs I definately was set on buying... I therefore decided that as she had emailed me back so quickly and verified that they were the same as the swarovski crystal rhinestone chart.. i decided it would be best to order the two packs of crystals together! This helped me to confirm my decision! I ordered these crystals after much deliberation on the thursday morning, i knew I would have to allow and week at least as were from an website from outside of europe! I hoped I had not left it too late for these to arrive and apply to James' jacket for the 2nd fitting! I was however lucky, as where I had designed for these to go; on the collar and the cuff, I would not necessarily have to apply these before I had made up my jacket! Equally, I would not apply the ones on the cuff, until I have double checked at the 2nd fitting on the 3rd May the length of the sleeve! Added to this, I could not do the ones on the cuff of the jacket as Graham (our tutor) had advised in our previous tutorial that following redrafting our sleeve pattern to accomodate the new changes to the jacket from fitting 1, we should cut the sleeves again from calico and use the calico sleeves for the 2nd fitting. Then after the 2nd fitting and checking our sleeve pattern redrafted was ok and fitted; we would cut them out from top fabric then at this point!
The rest of this week was spent redrafting my patterns and adapting them as I mentiond in my previous post; tutorial with graham!
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