Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Lil Dress Form (quarter sized mostly)


Long hard day draping and cutting.
But I lie. Well, the photo does.



This is what it really looks like, if I leave the background in.

And then I could show you the pattern I cut this from


I know Vionnet worked on a smaller dress form for draping, but I've found it saves a lot of time, paper and fabric to mess aroun.....CREATE on a smaller form.

I've used the drawing manikin
But you can't pin into it. And it's not very well proportioned. That grey culotte pattern looks like a Hefty bag on a real person


And usually this thing is wearing the little striped pullover shirt pattern I'm STILL poking at, almost a year later......

But today, it's wearing half a pair of culottes. Cause I need a new pair.
Oh, you'll get a pattern, too.....but not that one in the picture. Cause that's just not working.





Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Free peeks at K King Tailoring



I don't have the moola for Kenneth King's Smart Tailoring videos at the moment, but the online order page has some lovely chapter sneaks. And they are whole chapters, not 30 second snips.

That is an entire 3 minutes of smarty goodness