Understanding & Drafting Sleeves, Part 2: How to Draft a Sleeve Pattern, Winifred Aldrich Method
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Part 2 of this video series covers the drafting method taught by Winifred Aldrich in her book "Metric Pattern Cutting for Womenswear" I go through the draft step by step while drafting a sleeve pattern for my basic bodice block (which was drafted using her method too!)
Part 1: Understanding Sleeves
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Part 2: This video!
Part 3: How to Draft a Sleeve Pattern, Dennic Chunman Lo Method
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Part 4: Comparing Our Sleeve Pattern Drafts
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Oh my goodness!!this is one of the most detailed tutorial i have ever come acrossed using Winifred Aldrich's pattern and drafting book.Thank you for carrying us along...☺️
It's a pleasure Yahaya, I'm glad you enjoyed this tutorial! Thanks for watching :)
Thank u so much.
Explanations are excellent.
Love that u give the measurements.
You're very welcome 😊 ❤️
I'm also using this book and had trouble with fitting the sleeve. I used the close fitting bodice block and the one-piece sleeve block. Even without ease you have almost 1cm too much on the front side. In my opinion the sleeve should fit perfectly when drafting it correctly, which it doesn't. The Aldrich book brought me confusion and frustration due to these "little" mistakes. I ended up drawing and measuring it over and over again and now I see your video where it also doesn't fit and you just "cut" the length so it does fit. That shouldn't be necessary in a Metric Pattern Making book in my opinion. You make great videos and I'm happy that I found this one to clearing up things for me :). Thnak you
I agree completely, the Winifred draft often creates more problems and questions for students! I'm glad I was able to help you and give you a little more clarity though :)
The best tutorial that i had seen! I hope u will make another tutorial detailed like this. Keep it up
Thank you so much! There's lots more on the way :)
Well I’ve learned so much everything is clearer thanks 🤩
Excellent videos, thanks! One of my biggest frustrations with the Winifred Aldrich books is the way they include seam allowance in the drafted pattern, without an easy way of omitting it, or specifying clearly which line/measurement to use later when another block is used as a reference, as when drafting sleeves (maybe particularly so in earlier editions.) Coming back to pattern cutting after ~16 years, I'm a bit confused! When she gets you to measure lengths and mark points on the body section for drafting a sleeve, does she mean on the cutting line, not the stitching line? I assume so, because some of the point numbers do seem to match up with those original points. Hope you don't mind my asking advice here! Thanks again!
Hi lovely, which edition of her books are you using? As far as I understand all the drafts are NETT, so don't include seam allowance. But I've never used anything below 5th edition of her books so I'm not if it might be different in older editions!
As a standard, I do all my drafting NETT and then add on seam allowance as a final step :) Hope that helps you!
@@projectpatterns Hello, thanks so much for your reply! That's interesting! Perhaps it's different in the women's wear books (I'm using Metric Pattern Cutting For Menswear, 5th edition, and also have 1st edition.) I've actually just found a note in the introduction about this, which I'd never noticed before, where she states that she's done the book in this way to prepare students to enter the industry, where they will often have to work on patterns derived from previous styles, which already include seam allowance, and so prepare them for the associates difficulties. Still frustrating for the hobbyist, with no intention of entering the industry, but makes a lot more sense. Anyway, drafting NETT would be my instinct too, but never mind. I'll just muddle my way through :D Thanks again, I really appreciate you taking the time.
Another excellent video
Love this! Thank you! I have used two drafting systems that use the bust measurement to draft the sleeve but I have a smaller bust and rib cage relative to my bicep so the sleeve is always tight and then I have the brain pretzel of widening the sleeve while maintaining the fit into the armhole 😨 I have this book but have been too scared to try it! Seeing you work through it has helped immensely.
You're so welcome! Books can be a little intimidating sometimes, and having a video to go along with it always helps! Have you seen my other sleeve drafting video showing Dennic Chunman-Lo's method? It's a little simpler and sounds like it will help with your bicep issue!
@@projectpatterns I have seen that video too and bought the book lol! Just waiting for it. I didn't realize that might be better for my sleeve issue, thank you!
Soo how'd they figure this out? I'm really struggling even with normal mens t shirt sleeves
Thank you for this tutorial....i tried my hands on drafting a bodice with Aldrich but got stock along the way because i was working on a plus size. Please can you do a video for plus size bodice block using Aldrich. 🙏
It's a pleasure! For plus size drafting you're best to search for someone who specialises in that area. There's so little information around plus size drafting but I know that Motif has a great online course called "the fundamentals of plus size" that might be able to help you with your drafting.