Scissors don’t come with directions. Much like a screwdriver (the mechanical kind), they are supposedly a tool so simple that you should just look at…
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So I’ve been doing a little embroidery lately (which is an odd statement from She Who Doth Not Embroider, but it’s true). And then…. loopies.…
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You probably won’t finish this demo with an overwhelming sense of “Whoa! *Mind*blown*,” but I thought I’d put this out there. Also, I’m in the…
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Miss me? ;) If you have done up a torso draft with my sneaky mathless draft, you might be wondering how to turn that into a…
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Someday, I would like to costume an insanely popular movie so that I can pull out all my dirty tricks to make fanciness – and…
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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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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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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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Easing is slightly shrinking a seam allowance. It’s often done to sleeves. This is because the human body continues to curve out at the top…
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