Tutor Couture gives you your first lesson in draping a bodice. Draping is the more intuitive way to make patterns. For a perfect fit drape it right on your client's body rather than on the dress form.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, April 25, 2011
How to Draft a Basic Pant
(If the above link does not work copy and paste this URL: http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-draft-basic-pant-pattern-0126850/
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Sew a Circle Skirt Easy as "Pi"
There are many ways to make a circle skirt. Some people just fold fabric in half and estimate curves. Some use a string compass, some divide their waist circumference by 6 and cut into a square of fabric folded into quarters. I like to use π the Greek letter pronounced "pi" (as in a slice of apple pie) which is algebra for the number 3.14 . I never understood why pi works. I just knew it did and never questioned it. But at some point I had to wonder....
According to Richard Fischbeck, inventor of the Randome Shelter; an emergency shelter made up of geodesic circles that can be randomly put together in a very short period of time, "Nature does not use π (pi). Pi is merely an approximation. Nature always builds with whole numbers. We have H2O, not HπO. Mr. Fischbeck further explains, "A circle is always a polygon no matter how many corners it has. It can never have infinite corners. A polygon is not smooth or continuous. It is bumpy. It is made of many many tiny angles.
Suggested reading: Take it to the Limit. Stevenven Strogatz on math, from basic to baffling.
Suggested reading: Take it to the Limit. Stevenven Strogatz on math, from basic to baffling.
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