1st year help

This week is the first week have help from are 1st years. I think its a strange time of year to give us the help now as i remember when we did it the third years were much furthur on. I felt it would be helpful later as i would have lots of finishes and odd jobs to give my helper vansha were as at the moment i dont have much to give her.
She has been very helpful this week i gave her tuesday off as i went to london and she offrerd to continue at home the work she was doing for me the day before. I gave her my sequin seam allowance to unpick on the trousers as i felt it would be realy helpful for me and occupy her for a while but she managed to do it really quickly i was impressed! Which is brilliant as i can get on and make the trousers sooner then anticipated. She is really lovely and keen to help which is good and from what she has done for me so far she is really quite good and very neat aswell. I showed her my drawing for my sequin top and explained how to make the pattern and let her get on with it and she toiled it up for me really well. She took her time which i didnt mind as when she brought it back with her it was so neat.

This is vansha toile she made for me which is really good. It is quite a simple block but thats what am after because the fabric is so heavily embellished. I widened the neckline on the pattern and scooped out the back as i wanted to bring that element of sexy sophistication into it so it is daring but not tacky revealing.

This is the top almost finished. I decided i would let vansha sew it together. I trusted her and the finish on the toile was really neat so i asked her to put the top together using french seams and i was realy impressed. I may have to face the neckline or self line the top to make it neat on the inside but overall its really neat. The only problem i have with the top is that as it is so low and quite weight it is slipping off the shoulders so i may have to put a tie or a cord across the back to hold it on the model. I have a karen millen sequin dress and it has a similar thing across the top back to hold it up so its not an common finish but i will have to trap it in the lining.
I hope i gave her helpful jobs and that she learnt from me. I think she did as if she wishes to work in sequins she knows the problems with them and she understands finish and the importance of preparing proper patterns and toiling if your working with expensive fabrics. She was very shocked at the cost of the fabric.