I Took Friday Off....
Except for doing some cooking and grocery shopping, the only thing I did was to spend some time working on my shirt pattern--measuring a shirt that I know fits me currently and then measuring the pattern I want to use in order to make sure it's workable.
It's a tedious process but at the end of it I should have both a trial shirt that fits and a ( Read more... )
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I've just now decided my vocabulary is further behind the times than I'd previously thought it to be. I had thought I understood "pattern hacking," but it is obvious to me now that I don't.
If you've done all your adjustments to the pattern, and you like the way it fits, what will the pattern hacking be?
By the way, do you not have a master pattern block against which to check your patterns? It seems to me that would be helpful, and much quicker than measuring shirts or blouses and then transferring those measurements to the latest pattern.
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Having never worked with a master pattern block, I'm not sure what good it would do me since I'd be stuck having to adjust it to me as well as the regular patterns---and that begins to sound like a lot of time wasted.
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Pattern hacking---The shirt pattern I'm currently working with doesn't come with a long sleeve much less a Bishop sleeve or a flutter sleeve so I'm stuck having to come up with my own and I'm planning on doing some stuff with the cuffs and cuff vents too.
Also, I'm moving the front edge of the back yoke up to the top of the shoulder so that I can make a few shirts with shawl collars.
That's it for right now since I've already outlined a lot of work...
:^)
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