Hello all I hope you are enjoying winter so far! I just wish it would go away....
Anyway it has been a bit tough but it too shall pass. The highlight has been the students and clients I have had the pleasure of working with :)
Thursday was the second class of the semester with the Bradford students and they delivered! By the end of the class I was so elated I felt like I was walking on air! These ladies drafted a Raglan sleeve pattern in the morning, with the exception of one who unfortunately had to attend a funeral so she drafted her pattern at lunch time; cut out their fabric shortly before lunch and then completed the top with time to spare by the end of the day! One little speedy Gonzales was finished by 3 at which point she ended up helping others. Some of the students even learned how to use a cover stitch machine to finish the top! Click here to see the picture
But alas there will be homework
Next class will be focused on the set-in sleeve drafting and installation choose your fabrics accordingly for a loose top use something that drapes well for a more fitted top choose something with body the will hold the structure;
Anyway it has been a bit tough but it too shall pass. The highlight has been the students and clients I have had the pleasure of working with :)
Thursday was the second class of the semester with the Bradford students and they delivered! By the end of the class I was so elated I felt like I was walking on air! These ladies drafted a Raglan sleeve pattern in the morning, with the exception of one who unfortunately had to attend a funeral so she drafted her pattern at lunch time; cut out their fabric shortly before lunch and then completed the top with time to spare by the end of the day! One little speedy Gonzales was finished by 3 at which point she ended up helping others. Some of the students even learned how to use a cover stitch machine to finish the top! Click here to see the picture
But alas there will be homework
Next class will be focused on the set-in sleeve drafting and installation choose your fabrics accordingly for a loose top use something that drapes well for a more fitted top choose something with body the will hold the structure;
- Create two patterns
- Pattern one using generic measurements sent to you by email – complete the block only to the hip and trace the pattern pieces and cut them out
- Please bring inexpensive fabric to practice installing the set-in sleeve into the armhole
- Pattern two using personal measurements with all the individual adjustments already incorporated into the master pattern,
- trace the pattern pieces and cut them out
- Also if you want to finish a top for yourself please bring a woven fabric for this application
- Your choices are a loose top as shown on page 49 without front opening and only a dressmaker dart or a sheath dress/top with the addition of the fish eye darts on the front and back, back zipper and long or short sleeves. This is because you already know how to work with these styles making the sleeve installation easier
- Pattern one using generic measurements sent to you by email – complete the block only to the hip and trace the pattern pieces and cut them out
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