Now, lets talk about these straps. The front one is a total lie.If we pull it taut, it goes across the chest rather than over the shoulder. This is because it is set at the wrong angle.If we force it back towards the shoulder, it will fit the body on the side closest to the Center Front, but wing out all weird near the armpit.
Caveat: If you are working with a body that is larger at the waist than the bust, the straps will angle off the arm rather than onto the chest. When pulled towards the shoulder, the wingy bit will be to the Center Front. The following method will still work to correct the angle of the strap; you’ll just end up with your adjustment on the inside, rather than the outside, of the strap.
Fold out the winginess by pulling the extra down against the body. You will have yet another little triangle.Check to back to see if any adjustment is needed there. Mercifully, this looks fine.Bring the straps up to the shoulder, with the front strap over the back. At the top of the shoulder, fold the front strap over itself. The folded edge should hit the top of the shoulder. Mark the location of the fold, and refold.Line the folded top strap up so that it meets up with the back strap exactly. Mark this meeting point on the back strap. Watchpoint: make sure the front strap adjustment fold is still folded!
The links to pages 2-5 seem to be broken … they all lead back to the start of page 1. (Same for the Part 1 entry).
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missaJune 26, 2010
Hey, wow, that’s a good point – *all* of my paginated posts are broken. I’m looking into it now.
missaJune 26, 2010
Aaaaalllllright, then. Fixed. That took entirely too long.
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MackenzieSeptember 4, 2012
Where do you get such big poster board to do this for human-size? I got the standard size they sell for 99 cents at the pharmacy, and I’m a pretty tiny person, and I can’t do that with the center line. I’m going to be cutting two pieces and taping them together.
You can find larger poster board than that at most art stores – (including Hobby Lobby, Blick, Michaels, etc) and any place that caters to students (walgreens, target, kmart, walmart-even-thought-I’m-still-boycotting), and often also at JoAnn’s.
Hope that helps….
PETA CUNNINGHAMDecember 4, 2017
THANK YOU so much for sharing your knowledge with us. <3
missaDecember 4, 2017
And thank you for reading and commenting! :)
KJSeptember 8, 2022
Hello! I have no idea if you’re still active but if you are, do you have any tips on how to turn this block into a waistcoat pattern?
missaOctober 20, 2022
The specifics depend a lot on the era that the waistcoat is for. In general, though, you’re going to be putting the center front, side front, and possibly side-back pieces together into one panel for the fronts. The center back (or center and side back, if side back was not added to the front panel) will become the back panel. Shaping generally moves to the center front seam, and possibly to the side-back seam.
That’s actually a really good question. I’ll see if I can get some time to play around with this. :)
Merrin HolsteinJune 26, 2023
Thank you for such a great tutorial. I’m eager to try this out.
Elizabeth L DasbachJuly 20, 2024
Just discovered and made the block and Wench bodice! It worked really well ,thank you for posting!
The links to pages 2-5 seem to be broken … they all lead back to the start of page 1. (Same for the Part 1 entry).
:(
Hey, wow, that’s a good point – *all* of my paginated posts are broken. I’m looking into it now.
Aaaaalllllright, then. Fixed. That took entirely too long.
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Note to the collective human knowledgebase known as the web: After upgrading to WordPress 3.0, my permalink structure (/%category%/%postname%/) with my marvelously nested category structure became too much for the wordpress/mod_rewrite engine to handle. Links within paginated posts automatically redirected to the post permalink, and all page information was stubbornly dropped from the link. On the advice of a terribly clever fellow at http://www.weberz.com/blog/2009/06/seo-experts-give-wrong-advice-wordpress-permalinks , I changed my permalink structure to /%year%/%postname%/ – still readable, faster, and most importantly, it fixes the problem.
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[…] You might also like:The Basic Conical Torso Block (Part 2) […]
Where do you get such big poster board to do this for human-size? I got the standard size they sell for 99 cents at the pharmacy, and I’m a pretty tiny person, and I can’t do that with the center line. I’m going to be cutting two pieces and taping them together.
You can find larger poster board than that at most art stores – (including Hobby Lobby, Blick, Michaels, etc) and any place that caters to students (walgreens, target, kmart, walmart-even-thought-I’m-still-boycotting), and often also at JoAnn’s.
Hope that helps….
THANK YOU so much for sharing your knowledge with us. <3
And thank you for reading and commenting! :)
Hello! I have no idea if you’re still active but if you are, do you have any tips on how to turn this block into a waistcoat pattern?
The specifics depend a lot on the era that the waistcoat is for. In general, though, you’re going to be putting the center front, side front, and possibly side-back pieces together into one panel for the fronts. The center back (or center and side back, if side back was not added to the front panel) will become the back panel. Shaping generally moves to the center front seam, and possibly to the side-back seam.
That’s actually a really good question. I’ll see if I can get some time to play around with this. :)
Thank you for such a great tutorial. I’m eager to try this out.
Just discovered and made the block and Wench bodice! It worked really well ,thank you for posting!