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In today’s lesson, I show you how to check your pattern to make sure everything fits correctly using your muslin/practice skirt that you made in Lesson 3. I also show you how to make some basic changes to the pattern. (Here are the links for Lesson 2 and Lesson 1 if you missed them) If . . . → Read More: Drafting Skirt Pattern Sew Along Lesson 4: Checking the Fit and Fixing Problems Dear Friends, In today’s lesson, I show you how to draft a basic skirt sloper and pattern. You will need the measurements you took in Lesson 2. You can find the information about supplies you will need in Lesson 1. I created a free step-by-step 18 page handout, with illustrations, that you will be able . . . → Read More: Drafting Skirt Pattern Sew Along Lesson 3: Drafting the Pattern (w/video)  9 comments - (Comments are closed)  Design School, How to Videos, Pattern Drafting  drafting skirt pattern, pattern drafting
Dear Friends, In today’s lesson, I show you how to take correct measurements so that your pattern will fit you perfectly! My sister, Jill, agreed to be my model and my mom was there, too, so she was my camera woman. And, as you will soon see/hear, Baby Alice was involved in the filming, too, . . . → Read More: Drafting Skirt Pattern Sew-Along Lesson Two: Measuring (w/video) 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Design School, How to Videos, Pattern Drafting, Projects measuring, pattern drafting
Dear Friends, I’ve been talking about “draping” the pattern for my Vionnet-inspired cocktail dress. But what does that exactly mean? I have found these two videos by couture designer Susan Elias that shows the basic process of draping the front bodice and she demonstrates how darts can be rotated to the neckline in the second . . . → Read More: Theatrical Thursday: Basic Introduction to Draping a Pattern Comments are closed Design School, How to Videos, Projects Madeleine Vionnet Inspired Cocktail Dress, Patternmaking
Generally speaking, women’s sewing patterns (and clothing) are designed for someone with a perfect B cup. Now that is great if you are a perfect B cup. But some of us are “curvier” and some of us are understanding the force of gravity. So, for the rest of us that don’t have a perky perfect . . . → Read More: Theatrical Thursday: Shirley Adams and Adjusting the Bust Dart I owe a lot of my sewing ability to Nancy Zieman, of Sewing with Nancy fame. I’d religiously watch it on WHYY (Philadelphia’s public television station) every Saturday afternoon in the late 80′s and early 90′s (sadly, I had to give it up when grad school got in the way of my television viewing pleasure). . . . → Read More: Theatrical Thursday: Sew What’s New In my podcast, yesterday, I mentioned that I met my dress form and named her Joan. I also mentioned that even though she is a “perfect size 8,” she doesn’t look like any size 8 person I know. Even if I were size 8, using Joan for fitting my garments would be futile endeavor. They . . . → Read More: Theatrical Thursday: Duct Tape Double Els from Sewing Divas has ruined my life. Okay, not really. The other day, she showcased a Chanel dress and fabric on her blog and then casually mentioned a documentary from several years ago called Signe’ Chanel that is available in parts on You Tube. I am now obsessed with this documentary (I’ve only had . . . → Read More: Thursday Theatrics: Signe’ Chanel In yesterday’s podcast, I mentioned that I was supposed to use a felled seam for the sleeve/armhole seam but that the instructions confused me and I clipped off the wrong seam allowance. I decided to do a little research on this topic and this is what I’ve found: If you’re not sure what a flat . . . → Read More: Thursday Theatrics: Sewing a Flat Felled Seam One day, during my UCLA days, I was helping My Honey with the laundry (yes, he has been the main launderer in our home since my grad school days) when I noticed that one of his work shirts only had something like two buttons on it. He was using safety pins to hold it together! . . . → Read More: Thursday Theatrics: The Zen of Mending |
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