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SEWING PATTERNS x CLOTHING PATTERNS xx DESIGNS & PATTERNS xx SEWING xx TAILORING Tips on using air- and water-soluble marking pens properly so pattern marks will be removable. Tip: How to use tissue paper for tracing patterns. Getting started in sewing the "great American wardrobe". Choosing and adjusting a pattern size. Tip on reinforcing a tissue pattern by ironing it onto polycoated freezer wrap. Tips on how to make patterns from vintage garments. Designing easy patterns to fit any body. Explains how to make key measurements, how to make a pattern and a muslin trial garment. Includes specifics on making a simple jacket that fits and flatters any figure, using fabric woven in a lace-weave variation. Tip: Strengthen tissue-paper patterns with iron-on interfacing. Tip: How to mark a dart with notches and a tailor's tack or with straight pins. Draping a blouse. Making tissue and muslin patterns are described for designing a blouse with a cowl neckline. Techniques can be applied to design the pattern for any draped garment. Tips on how to enlarge a pattern using a slide projector or a photocopier. Three basic methods for making your own sewing patterns. How to alter a pattern for pants that are either too short or too long between the crotch and the waist. Making your own sloper (basic garment shapes that are used for flat patternmaking). Suggestions on selecting a basic fitting pattern, measuring the pieces and correcting them to fit you. Includes detailed instructions for fitting muslin bodice and skirt and then transferring shapes from the muslin to pattern tissues and then to the cardboard sloper. Use 4 mil clear plastic as pattern material. A fitting method for women's pants. The emphasis is on taking measurements and adjusting the crotch curves. Explains how to correct a typical pattern and overall crotch depth. How to adapt a vintage dress style to a modern fit. Explains measuring the pieces of an original garment and making a rescaled pattern, sewing a prototype and tips on final fitting details. Tip: How to alter a classic-fitting womens' slacks pattern to produce a cupping fit. Tip: Fuse nonwoven interfacing to the wrong side of a tissue pattern to reinforce it. How to modify American patterns for a European fit and guidelines for working with a multisize European pattern. Knitting from sewing patterns. How to adjust pattern pieces to suit body measurements and convert them to knitting shapes. Tip on clipping curves to the cutting line on multisize patterns. Custom patternmaking. A guide to making a basic flat-pattern design for a blouse and how to vary it. Includes instructions for a tee-shirt style and a high-neck blouse with long, gathered and flared sleeves. Tip: Use Stitch Witchery and tissue scrap to mend tears in sewing patterns. Tip: A no-residue fabric marking technique. Tip: Use tiles as pattern weights so there is no need to pin and unpin a pattern when cutting. Copy the clothes you love. How to make a pattern from an existing garment without taking it apart. Tips for tracing sewing patterns from magazines without damaging the sheets/pages. Pattern grading. How to change the size of a pattern. Explains the basics of pattern grading for a skirt, blouse and set-in sleeve. Tip suggests an amount of ease to add to pattern measurements to make fitting easier. How to alter a pattern to fit a narrow back and full bust. Tip suggests how to lengthen patterns so they can be pressed. Tip suggests making pattern weights from nylon tubing filled with buckshot or sand. How to reproduce a commercial pattern and draw an entire pattern from a half. Pattern alteration made easy. A pivot-and-slide method of alteration explained. Buttoning up. How to draft or modify a pattern to create an alternative to a standard closure. (1) Asymmetrical closure. (2) Asymmetrical scallop closure. (3) Shoulder closure. Tip describes how to make a garment label that identifies the pattern used to make the garment. Issey Miyake clothing designs. How to fold and finish versions from commercial patterns. Emphasizes pattern alterations to eliminate side seams, create an off-bias center back seam, make circle skirt variations and inset square or sharp angles. Making paper patterns fit non-paper persons. How to take careful body measurements. Advice on pattern selection and alteration. Pattern alterations to add a bust dart or to add extra fullness. Advice on selecting a pattern that won't have fitting problems. How to pin-fit a tissue pattern. Advice on areas to check and how to correct excess back length and a gape at the neckline. Copying a Schiaparelli. How to make a pattern from a garment without taking it apart. How to adjust a pattern to accommodate a short back waist. Tip on preserving sewing patterns with plastic-coated freezer wrap. Tips on using freezer paper for tracing elaborate pattern pieces and as an applique template. How to modify a pattern to accommodate a larger bust size. Advice on adjusting patterns for body length. How to alter a commercial pattern to accommodate a full bust. How to alter patterns for maturing figures with rounded upper back, rounded shoulders, lowered bustline, thickened waist, flattened buttocks and enlarged abdomen. Advice on altering a pattern for a long garment to add "walking ease". Tip on matching stripes from piece to piece when laying out patterns. Making multiple corrections to a pattern neckline and shoulders. How to select a pattern size that will minimize difficult alterations. Bargain-bin wallpaper recommended for making copies of sewing patterns. Advice on altering patterns for a smaller-than-average bust. How to fit a basic bodice shell (a sloper) using a draping technique that requires only simple measurements. Accompanying article explains how to use a bodice sloper to check how a commercial pattern will fit. A suggestion for pinless pattern cutting. Correcting the bust fit on princess-seam patterns. How to select a pattern in a style that will flatter your bustline, whether full or small. Advice on altering the ease when sewing a woven fabric from a pattern designed for knit fabric. How to increase bust shaping for several pattern styles. Basic and raglan bodices, blouses that are "dartless", or have front tucks or gathers below the yoke, and for a jacket with modified side panel. Grain-straight garments for an asymmetrical body. How to take measurements and alter a pattern. Lack of standardization between pattern and retail sizing discussed and advice on how to find a pattern size that fits best. Advice on selecting patterns that fit and flatter a mature figure. Advice on selecting patterns that are suitable with strong diagonal prints. Fitting broad shoulders. A description of increasing shoulder width in a pattern for a basic fitted bodice, for a princess-line garment, a yoked garment, a split-armscye princess-line garment, and garments with raglan and kimono sleeves. Experiments with border prints. How to get different looks from the same pattern and fabric by varying layouts and border placement. Includes a tip on altering a pattern to add or modify sleeve cuffs. Advice on tissue-fitting a pattern before cutting into fabric and pin-fitting the garment during sewing to refine its fit. How to alter patterns to eliminate the bulk across the upper chest. Describes vertical shoulder tucks, adjusting back and sleeve to match front and adjusting princess and yoked styles. Tip describes a method for copying antique patterns so the originals can be preserved uncut. Techniques and materials for transferring construction details from pattern to fabric. Spun-bonded, polypropylene fabric used in agriculture is recommended as a pattern material. How to change a pattern from a dropped shoulder to a natural shoulder with set-in sleeve. Fitting a bodybuilder. A guide to taking bodice measurements and making pattern adjustments. Tip suggests prolonging the lifespan of patterns by transferring them to nonfusible interfacing. How to lay out pattern pieces on fabrics with nap or pile. Are you sure that pattern will work? A checklist of what to look for in a pattern, how to know what to look for and why. Tips on body facts and the ways in which a pattern may react to them. How to alter a pattern to fit a curved upper back (dowager's hump). Sizing up to plus-size patterns. An explanation of pattern grading for the full figure, the measurements needed and how to adjust specific pattern parts. A guide to basic patterns. A guide to the features that makes a pattern versatile enough so it can be used for almost any figure type. How to use a sloper as a fitting tool to simplify altering commercial patterns. How darts affect length and advice on reducing length in the middle of a pattern. The basics of pattern layout. Basic ways to fit plus-size, preteen girls. Suggestions on available commercial patterns and tips on ways to adjust a Misses pattern to fit younger figures. How to use a French curve when fitting a pattern. How to use a sloper as a fitting tool. Part 2. How to use a basic fitting pattern to alter complex designs, including a pattern with princess seams and side panels. The basics of cutting out a pattern. A guide to the tools and techniques. The seam method of pattern alteration. Tips on selecting a sewing pattern for use with handwoven fabric. Adjusting bodice patterns. How to alter slack (pant) patterns so they fit. | |||||||||
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