I am working on this: This is for Stephanie, a dear friend and favorite collaborator. So far, we’ve done… This one is going to be…
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Normally when you draft a block, you take a bunch of measurements, then use fractional amounts of them to draft half the body. Often, you…
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…gets shoved directly into a display window. It’s all just marker on muslin, but it was kind of awesome watching them tackle it. They actually…
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It’s uncomfortably literal. For me, at least. The dancer who wears it, the choreographer, and all of my students thought it was pretty. *shrug* If…
Leave a CommentStudent: “It’s not possible!” Me: “You know it’s possible. You just watched me sew it.” Student: “But you sewed it with witchcraft!” I am still chuckling…
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What if I said you could draft a torso block without all those pesky maths and measurements? Would you laugh? Cry? Call me crazy? Would…
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A yoke is a fitted band at the top of a skirt that takes the place of a waistband. Instead of sitting up around the…
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Oh, the terrible raglan sleeve! I lived through the 80’s. I still have nightmares about these things (bolstered out by shoulder pads, of course). On…
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Collar and undercollar, if you want to get all technical about it. These pieces will be truly drafted, which is exciting! The first thing we…
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At the start of the class, we decided that a short poofy sleeve would be cuter than the long one in the original sample picture,…
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