Ever wondered how, exactly, pants work*? What kind of crazy pattern-making sorcery goes into drafting a pant? If you’ve ever looked at a “from scratch”…
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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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Over the last two weeks, we’ve been working on a blouse pattern in half scale. Then I caught a cold, and fell behind on posting.…
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Once again, a sample has become a vest. (It’s funny how that happens the two weeks before we start to work on the real human-sized…
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Geometry is important in pattern making. I know I go off about that a lot, but it’s true, and it’s why I’m obsessive about squaring…
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We got saucy in class last week and decided to make something real out of our armscye princess line sample. (Samples are boring. We all…
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Another one for my students, but really, this can be done with any basic blouse pattern. You’ll end up with a terribly attractive little smock.…
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Last week my class worked up an armscye princess manipulation, then worked it farther into a vest with facing. I’m breaking this down into two…
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Once again, this is intended for my Flat Pattern students. If you are someone else’s student, do whatever your teacher tells you. This sample problem…
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Once again, this is mostly for my students. If you are someone else’s student, do this however your teacher says. ;)
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