Is there another source you could show on how you learned to do this method? I just need my hand held a little more than this video provides. Thankyou.
Thank you for making a video on this. You seem to be the only person attempting to show this technique :'D However I am finding it really difficult to follow. I was really unclear on why each step needed to be done which is makes it hard to transfer to a different pattern. I completely didn't understand what you meant by "slash line near the bust line to allow the shoulder dart to collapse. The video at that point also didn't seem to be showing that? or if it was I couldn't tell which part was which. Sorry to be a bummer but the way the video was cutting around and you moved through everything so quickly, I actually could not use this at all. Such a shame I can't seem to find anyone else showing how to do this. Maybe you can make a clearer one in the future.
thanks for your feedback! yes, the footage for when I am saying to create a slash line near the bust is a few seconds before I actually finish saying that. I've added some articles that discuss using a sloper with a commercial pattern that I used when learning how to do this myself. The main take away is dart manipulation: the sloper and the commercial pattern both have darts built in to them in order to turn a flat, 2D paper pattern into a 3D garment that fits on the body. The sloper has darts marked out, so you know where they are, but the commercial pattern doesn't always show you where the darts are. This means in order to get the two pattern pieces to match up (to discover where alterations need to be made), you need to cut into the darts on the sloper and pattern (either where you know they are like the gathers in this example, or based on your best guess) to try and get the seam lines to match up the best you can. I've found placing the sloper on top of the armscye works best for me, but that might not work best for you and the articles I linked in the description discuss other ways of matching up the sloper with the commercial pattern piece. I would recommend taking a look at common places where darts are placed to better understand where to make slash lines. I think it would be helpful in understanding why I chose to create a dart at the bust line in this example, because that might not always be the best place to create one. I hope this helped clarify some things! It's a complicated subject.
Thanks for posting. I understand most of it. Too wide shoulders, long waists and princess seams in the wrong place are my major disappointments with commercial patters. I think I can fix it now. I was originally looking for a pants video but I guess it's the same principle? the the crotch position on my sloper is pretty different from the pattern
Beautiful. Thank you.
Excellent tutorial using sloper.
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Thank you so much!
Is there another source you could show on how you learned to do this method? I just need my hand held a little more than this video provides. Thankyou.
I just edited the video description and linked 2 articles that I used when figuring out how to alter a pattern using a sloper, I hope they help!
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Thank you for making a video on this. You seem to be the only person attempting to show this technique :'D However I am finding it really difficult to follow. I was really unclear on why each step needed to be done which is makes it hard to transfer to a different pattern. I completely didn't understand what you meant by "slash line near the bust line to allow the shoulder dart to collapse. The video at that point also didn't seem to be showing that? or if it was I couldn't tell which part was which. Sorry to be a bummer but the way the video was cutting around and you moved through everything so quickly, I actually could not use this at all. Such a shame I can't seem to find anyone else showing how to do this. Maybe you can make a clearer one in the future.
thanks for your feedback! yes, the footage for when I am saying to create a slash line near the bust is a few seconds before I actually finish saying that. I've added some articles that discuss using a sloper with a commercial pattern that I used when learning how to do this myself. The main take away is dart manipulation: the sloper and the commercial pattern both have darts built in to them in order to turn a flat, 2D paper pattern into a 3D garment that fits on the body. The sloper has darts marked out, so you know where they are, but the commercial pattern doesn't always show you where the darts are. This means in order to get the two pattern pieces to match up (to discover where alterations need to be made), you need to cut into the darts on the sloper and pattern (either where you know they are like the gathers in this example, or based on your best guess) to try and get the seam lines to match up the best you can. I've found placing the sloper on top of the armscye works best for me, but that might not work best for you and the articles I linked in the description discuss other ways of matching up the sloper with the commercial pattern piece. I would recommend taking a look at common places where darts are placed to better understand where to make slash lines. I think it would be helpful in understanding why I chose to create a dart at the bust line in this example, because that might not always be the best place to create one. I hope this helped clarify some things! It's a complicated subject.
Thanks for posting. I understand most of it. Too wide shoulders, long waists and princess seams in the wrong place are my major disappointments with commercial patters. I think I can fix it now. I was originally looking for a pants video but I guess it's the same principle? the the crotch position on my sloper is pretty different from the pattern
yes, same principle for the crotch position! You can line your sloper up with the crotch curve and alter the rest of the pattern around that.