Trouser Block - Fitting Toile

So often I'm asked how I make my fitting toile's for Trouser Blocks, so I'd thought I'd put together a short post with some detail. Many of the points are small but essential for a good #FirstFitting. You can access a download of my Trouser Block here. I've also uploaded a worksheet that covers the detail for the first stage of fitting the trouser block. The PDF worksheet includes detail instructions and technical diagrams to take you through every step of the process.

Click through to 'well-suited' for all the fitting detail.

Stretch Skirt Block and Design Options

Following on from the Skirt Block and Design Options post I've separated skirt designs that use a stretch skirt block to start your pattern development. You can use my skirt block to make a stretch skirt block to use with all these pattern puzzle posts. Some of them have been sampled and those sample posts are also included here.

Click through to 'well-suited', the website blog, for all the pattern making goodness!

Fascinated by Pleating

I've always had a fascination for what can be achieved with a little heat and some petro-chemical fibres.  Permanent (heat-set) Pleating is the use of heat on polyester/nylon fabrics to set a pleat that will survive the rigours of wash and wear without the need of re-pressing.  I plan to investigate and demonstrate the Sun-ray Circle and the Mushroom Pleat Rectangle in this first series.

The first three posts in the series are here:

Prep for Permanent Pleating 101

Patterns for Pleating Project 101

Cut, Hang and Hem before Pleating 101

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New Posts on the Blog

A quick post to catch you  up on some pattern puzzles:

Pattern Puzzle - Wrap Drape Tunic
Pattern Puzzle - Drape Tube Skirt
Pattern Puzzle - Squares & Zero Waste
Pattern Fundamentals - Drape Skirt II

All post diagrams and photos are on the well-suited blog, now located on our website.

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Pattern Fundamentals - Gape Darts

Last Saturday we swapped our regular #PatternPuzzle for some #PatternFundamentals.  The focus of the conversation was GAPE DARTS and how to use them in your pattern making to get a better result in your first toile of new designs.  You may know them as contouring darts as suggested by Alexandria of In-House Patterns.

The first question for fans was do you know what a gape dart is?  And do you know when to use them?  All the pattern making instruction has been moved to the website blog.  Join me there! :)

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Pattern Fundamentals - Stretch Skirt Block

ALL THE DETAIL FOR A STRETCH SKIRT BLOCK CAN BE FOUND ON THE NEW BLOG.

Pattern Fundamentals - Stretch Skirt Block