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Craft Forum / Textile / Sewing / February 2010pattern making
Forgive my ignorance first off! I attempted to search for answers on old posts. Overwhelming! I'm looking for help on pattern making. I make all my dresses and use what is now a homemade pattern. How it started I'll never know. ( friends, & pieces here and there)I have trouble designing collars, especially that fold down. What are the rules to know the length to fit the neckline? Also are there any good references for seeing collars to get ideas? My imagination tires and i like to just look at something and try drawing it. Are there any books just on collars and necklines? bodices...yokes...?? I don't and won't use a diff. manufactured pattern each time. I have 2 bodices that fit well and just want to continue to alter yokes, necklines, and collars, but I'm ready for more advanced trials. your ideas are welcomed! thank you !! Penelope Lee ------------------------------------- ##-----------------------------------------------# Delivered via http://www.sewgirls.com Sewing Community of the Ne Web and RSS access to your favorite newsgroup - rec.crafts.textiles.sewing - 4483 messages and counting ##-----------------------------------------------## > Forgive my ignorance first off! I attempted to search for > answers on old posts. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > advanced trials. your ideas > are welcomed! thank you !! Threads had an article about pattern drafting software: http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/6111/pattern-drafting-software You might take a look at one of the Wild Ginger pattern making programs: http://www.wildginger.com/products/patternmaster.htm http://livingsoftnw.com/ http://cochenille.com/ http://mypatterndesigner.com/MPD/Home.htm http://www.patternmakerusa.com/PatternMaker%20Store/software.html http://www.fashioncad.net/ http://www.optitex.com/en/products/main_modules or a book: http://www.fashionpatterns.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products _id=69 > Forgive my ignorance first off! I attempted to search for answers on old > posts. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > are welcomed! thank you !! > Penelope Lee Look into learning to draft you own patterns. There are lots of different pattern drafting books on Amazon, but the basic one I go back to time and time again is Winifred Aldrich's series on Mertric Pattern Cutting. Another good source for altering a good basic pattern is the Vintage sewing site, which has lots of older book info on line and is a great help: > http://vintagesewing.info/1920s/26-fcm/fcm-toc.html And then there is David Page Coffin's Shirtmaking book that has a lot about shirt collars in it.  SignatureKate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! > different pattern drafting books on Amazon, but the basic one I go back > to time and time again is Winifred Aldrich's series on Mertric Pattern [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > And then there is David Page Coffin's Shirtmaking book that has a lot > about shirt collars in it. A hearty second to Kate's suggestions. I'd also add Sue Thompson's Decorative Dressmaking book, though it's really not pattern drafting in the broadest sense. And you might also consider stealing a matching collar and neckline from commercial patterns (I also used to steal sleeves and armscyes). > > different pattern drafting books on Amazon, but the > > basic one I go back [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > neckline from commercial patterns (I also used to steal > sleeves and armscyes). "stealing"??? I'm shocked, SHOCKED! I borrow myself... SignatureBeverly http://ickes.us/default.aspx >>> different pattern drafting books on Amazon, but the >>> basic one I go back [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > "stealing"??? I'm shocked, SHOCKED! I borrow myself... I have Frankenpatterning down to a fine art... Bodice from here, skirt from there, sleeves come from this one, collar from that... And then I alter them in little ways! Frankenpatterns. :) SignatureKate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! > I have Frankenpatterning down to a fine art... Bodice from here, skirt > from there, sleeves come from this one, collar from that... And then I > alter them in little ways! Frankenpatterns. :) Them is what I grew up on. Mother and grandmother made all my clothes, I had to stand for HOURS with my arms slightly away from my sides, circling slowly on command. I used to BEG for a dress out of the shop!! Finally got my first one when I was 13!! (School blazer was the exception. Got that from the uniform shop when I was 11). Olwyn Mary in New Orleans > > I have Frankenpatterning down to a fine art... Bodice > > from here, skirt from there, sleeves come from this [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > exception. Got that from the uniform shop when I was > 11). I always envied the girls at school who had all their clothing from RTW shops. Then our house burned just before a very important event (my aunt's wedding), and Mom took my twin and me to Sears for "store-bought" dresses. They were lavender and had HOOPS! Thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Mercifully, within a few years I learned how much better Mom-made was, and grew to appreciate all she did to keep twin girls clothed. Identically, until I started making all my own clothes. SignatureBeverly http://ickes.us/default.aspx > > "stealing"??? I'm shocked, SHOCKED! I borrow myself... > > > I have Frankenpatterning down to a fine art... Bodice > from here, skirt from there, sleeves come from this one, > collar from that... And then I alter them in little > ways! Frankenpatterns. :) Love that term! I don't think I have made a garment "complete-to-the-last-detail" of a pattern *ever*. I thought it was normal to take a bit from this and an idea from that and combine/alter them to create an "original". ;-) SignatureBeverly http://ickes.us/default.aspx >>> "stealing"??? I'm shocked, SHOCKED! I borrow myself... >>> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > from that and combine/alter them to create an "original". > ;-) Certainly is in this house! There are a few 'perfect' designs, but they are mostly either dead simple or by someone like Issay Myaki and put out by Vogue (like my favourite skirt pattern that I have now used 3 times for me, once for Ma and several times for customers and friends!). SignatureKate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! penelopelee had written this in response to http://www.sewgirls.com/textiles/Re-pattern-making-4837-.htm : >>>> different pattern drafting books on Amazon, but the >>>> basic one I go back [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > from there, sleeves come from this one, collar from that... And then I > alter them in little ways! Frankenpatterns. :) ------------------------------------- I didn't know my method of sewing had a name!...Frankenpatterns... Thanks so much for all the inputs. This is how Ive been designing but honestly I didn't know if it was "correct". I have just come to find a few designs I can't figure out how to piece into my necklines. I need them modest. Wildginger is WILD! I love it. But it looks like overkill for me. Thanxs to all. I'll look up books too! ##-----------------------------------------------# Delivered via http://www.sewgirls.com Sewing Community of the Ne Web and RSS access to your favorite newsgroup - rec.crafts.textiles.sewing - 4529 messages and counting ##-----------------------------------------------## >> really not pattern drafting in the broadest sense. And >> you might also consider stealing a matching collar and >> neckline from commercial patterns (I also used to steal >> sleeves and armscyes). > > "stealing"??? I'm shocked, SHOCKED! I borrow myself... Never gave 'em back to the original pattern. <g> You would prefer "teefing"? |
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