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March 18, 2022
Thinking that the skirt and/or pant, are not very open to any sort of variations can be an easy creative block to fall into. I mean pants are two columns for legs, and skirt a straight or slightly curved garment for the bottom half of the body.
But there are a lot more variations here than you suspect, and most of them involve dart rotations.
And what are dart rotations?
Dart rotating starts with knowing what dart points are on the body.
Next is how to rotate these darts and what they can make.
Next is what can you do with the lines that rotated darts give you? They give you seams that hide darts in them - it's seams that give you fit, but make the garment have a completely different look?
But that's not the end of this.
What about making great looking pants or leggings with prints?
What style of prints work best?
Then there's a review of how to place the prints and blocking colors?
What colors work and why, with downloads to show you projecting and receding colors.
There's some other resources available in this resource that's not available anywhere else. In addition, some resources that if you don't already have are at a big discount because they are so important to this creative process.
Most of all I wanted you all to begin to have some concept of how easy it is to trace your design onto a copy of your core pattern, and how these designs, even when they are sometimes iffy can turn out really well, because your core pattern has all the fit, comfort, flattery and beauty built into it.
This is a beginning guide on what to do with your core pattern after you have fitted and worked on it.
All the work that you have done in your core pattern contains all the information to make a garment that you will totally love. This means you really don't have to buy another pattern for making skirts, pants or leggings. Variations on your core pattern makes it possible for you to have the styles you see in a photo or on Pinterest without having to look for the pattern that looks like it might work. You can now simply trace it onto your core pattern and
you're done.
This resource also contains some other important resources at huge discount because they are so important to this creative process of varying your core pattern. It also contains some downloads that aren't available in the Resource Library at all, but are vital toward making good design.
In this world of crazy, illogical fashion, we sewists are having to turn into designers. That sounds really hard and foreboding, but it's not. Unlike designers, we simply haven't had all the experience they have, most of that experience they got when they went to design school. More than anything I wanted to make this process encouraging, empowering and enlightening without having to worry about whether or not you could vary your core pattern.
You can! It isn't that hard. It is knowing some guidelines and charging out into the unknown. That's what we sewists do and we do it very well most of the time.
This is the beginning of the series into variations on core patterns. I wanted to start with something basic, so that you wouldn't feel so intimidated. It takes a while to write these up, cause I'm an idea factory, and coordinating and organizing these ideas can be monumental with the sewing muse yacking in my ear 24/7.
The resource is available now at a discount so that you can enjoy it before spring starts in full force. Right now, I'm thinking happy, colorful and pretty. Those are all fresh looks for future clothes. When things seem upside down, it's great to have something to make us happy and often bright, springtime and summertime fabrics are just as much as drab, dark and somber fabrics. I'm ready to be beautiful, comfortable and look flattering in my clothes and
I'm dying to share that with you.
Skirts, Core Pattern Variations, Part 1 (but there's more than skirts in here)
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