Description
Learn how to customize your clothes–designing new pattern shapes, style lines, and fashion details with Sara Alm’s easy-to-follow instruction!
In Sara Alm’s Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method, sewers learn a technique that opens up myriad possibilities for making one-of-a-kind garments. By using basic pattern blocks called slopers, Alm shows sewers how to design new shapes, style lines, and fashion details–creating patterns for nearly any piece of clothing they want to sew. Take a basic straight skirt pattern, for example, and convert it into any other skirt design. Change the hemline or the basic shape of a skirt from straight to A-line to full swing with multiple gores. Try adjusting the waistline placement or convert it from waistband to waistline-facing. Change the style and placement of the closures. The options are endless once sewers understand the basics of flat-pattern designing, which is explained in the book.
Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method is divided into sections: skirts, tops, and pants. While many of the same principles apply to each garment type, there are different techniques to take into account. As soon as sewers know how to design from these three slopers, that knowledge is easily transferred to designing dresses, shorts, jumpsuits, and outerwear. The principles and techniques taught are also easily transferable to designing children’s clothes. By following extensive technique instruction in each of the three categories, twelve different garments are designed from each basic sloper and photographed on models so readers fully understand the process and the end result.
Thanks to Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method, passionate sewers will be as skilled as Project Runway contestants in no time!
From the Publisher
Project: Pants Pockets
Trace your chosen master front pant pattern onto drafting paper. Make any changes to the waistline and waist finish. Draw in the desired shape of the pocket opening, typically from the waist (below the waistband or yoke) to the side seam.
Make the waistline edge of the pocket width at least 1″ (2.5 cm) closer to the center front as the pocket opening. The more waistline, the better.
Draw in the desired depth and shape of the pocket bag. Use your hand or the object the pocket is intended to hold as your guide.
Trace the shape of the pocket opening, the pocket bottom, and the portion of the waistline. This is your pocket bag front pattern. Draw the grainline parallel to the grainline of the pant. This will sit just behind the self fabric when worn.
Trace a second pattern piece that includes the pocket bottom, side seam, and the entire waistline in the pocket area. Notch where the pocket bag connects with the opening on the waistline and side seam. This is your pocket bag back pattern. Draw the grainline parallel to the grainline of the pant. This will sit closest to your body when worn.
Cut away the pocket opening as drawn in figure 1 from the front pant pattern. Label both the pocket bag front and the pocket bag back ‘Cut 2 of self fabric.’
Publisher : Quarry Books; Illustrated edition (May 15, 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 176 pages
ISBN-10 : 1589239342
ISBN-13 : 978-1589239340
Item Weight : 1.55 pounds
Dimensions : 8.63 x 0.63 x 11.13 inches
