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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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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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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This is going to be a short one: we need to turn our blouse front into a front with a button placket. A placket is…
Leave a CommentOver 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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Not too long ago, we did up a sample of a simple vest with all-in-one facings. Here’s how to actually sew up a vest with…
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