Question 3
They were required to:
(a) Define frills.
(b) draw a dress with frills at the hemline
(c) (i) mention ways of attaching frills to a garment,
(ii) Outline sections on a garment where frills can be attached.
Observation
In question 3(a), b and c (i), candidates’ performance was low. Frills are strips of fabric, lace or ribbon tightly gathered or pleated on one edge and applied to a garment.The expected diagram of a dress with frills at the hemline is:
The expected ways of attaching frills to a garment include:
- stitch two lines of straight wide machine stitch along the width of the strip;
- draw up the gathers to the required length of frills/work even pleats along the width of the strip;
- join to the corresponding section with a seam and neaten the raw edges.
In question 3 (c) (ii), candidates were able to answer it correctly and scored high marks. The overall performance of the candidates in this question 3 is poor.