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This may be the worst photograph I've ever posted, but bear with me. See that right there? That's my draft of the back bodice for patternmaking. I made it with an L-square and a French curve #17 (and a pencil). After the professor demo'd how to do it, I was one of the first people in the class to finish, and she later (jokingly) called me 'Miss Gifted." In this case, gifted = ability to listen, follow directions, and do simple math. Still...it made me happy.
My dad was a wood patternmaker. A lifelong member of the United Patternmakers Association/ Association of Patternmakers and Allied Craftsmen. Latterly, patternmaking used all materials.. but in his day - patterns were made in wood. They form the void in sand moulds into which molten metal is cast.
The engineers provided drawings and the patternmakers sclade those up to account for the particular metal or alloy, which will be larger hot than cold. Since 1953, that would be in SI units - micrometres (microns) , millimetres, metres (multiples of 1,000s) - but tools used to make the patterns set in Imperial ("thous" = thousandths of an inch).
These patterns must have been held by the mill - of its working bits - to be supplied to a foundry whenever they needed new parts made
of Zimarras look like Spanish Ropas, which look to me like they took the top of their doublet patterns and widened them right about mid bust level.
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Curves are wonderful. They just aren't particularly fun to work with!
So this is muslin #2. Not too bad, but still needed to be taken in at the waist and bust area. I'm also finding that the traditional 2 dart block is just not going to work.
I perused through the Threads Magazine Archive DVD and I found a great tutorial on using princess seams to take out excess fabric on a muslin. I'm saved!
The princess seam took out just the right amount of excess, but still kept the shaping, so the muslin fit just right. Perfect solution. I used this before, but wasn't sure if it was the "proper" technique. I guess what really matters here is that it works. You just have to toss "proper" out of the window sometimes to make things work!
I still needed to pinch out a little more of the excess on the sides, hence the side bust dart. Hopefully this will do the trick.