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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This is really meant as support material for my Flat Pattern I students, to help them with their sample problems. The rest of the world might find this completely boring. ;)
Leave a CommentI’m doing research for this week’s lecture on the Directoire and Empire periods, and I ran across a beautiful YouTube of an exhibit on Napoleonic…
1 CommentSo it’s official – I’ll be teaching a History of Costume I (pre-antiquity – 1700ish) class spring semester. When I started teaching, this was my…
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