Urgh, the Sloper 2011 project is really dragging me down. A couple of weeks into my sewing holiday and I still haven’t made anything. Instead all my energy has gone into trying to perfect a new sloper. The idea is that once I get this basic fitting shell right it’ll open up a whole new […]
The other day the door bell ranged, and I thought it might be the tracing paper I ordered for pattern drafting. The long & short of tracing paper in the UK… Morplan ‘tracing paper’, next to Big Bertha for scale. I had previously ordered a roll of “tracing paper” from Morplan, which turned out to […]
Urgh. Sloper making is like DIY. Nothing’s ever straight! I’ve been trying to even out the left-right bodices, and checking measurements against Big Bertha every few minutes. But this is what I ended up with: I mean how can it be that the bust line is not perpendicular to the CF? Everything seems to measure […]
So, cape done & step 1 of the Draft Along pretty much settled. Next up: sorting out that damn sloper. (Pardon my French!) May I present evidence F & B: F as in Front & B as in Back So what do you do with pattern adjustment for a lopsided body? I’ve […]
And while I’m waiting for the sun to get out of bed, here’s the original Idea Doodles for the embroidered silk I’m now using for the Draft Along (the ones at the bottom, obviously): I used to sketch better, having taken both art classes and fashion design classes. Nowadays though, my drawing skills are a […]
