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Making a Pattern from Existing Clothing
I have several worn out jackets hanging in my closet that I absolutely
love and want to recreate. I am an advanced sewer but am wondering how difficult this would be to recreate a pattern from them without tearing them apart. Does anyone have any suggestions about doing the sleeves and collars? That is where I see I may have difficulty in getting them to tailor smoothly. My thoughts were to piece butcher paper together and sketch the sections, adding seam allowance. Any help and suggestions would be appreciated. Grace |
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Making a Pattern from Existing Clothing
Grace Kirkwood wrote:
I have several worn out jackets hanging in my closet that I absolutely love and want to recreate. I am an advanced sewer but am wondering how difficult this would be to recreate a pattern from them without tearing them apart. Does anyone have any suggestions about doing the sleeves and collars? That is where I see I may have difficulty in getting them to tailor smoothly. My thoughts were to piece butcher paper together and sketch the sections, adding seam allowance. Any help and suggestions would be appreciated. Grace --- With most garments, tracing a pattern isn't difficult. I like to find the grainline, mark it (use tailor's chalk, which washes out); then start tracing the largest straight seam first. Lay the garment on a large piece of paper, pin at strategic points, then pin-pierce the paper all around the garment piece. I like to do this on a padded board,--you can stick pins through it, straight up-and-down, to anchor items, as if you were using a corkboard. As you come to curved areas, you have to unpin/shift pins, as you shift the garment curve. The older the garment, the wonkier the straight-of-grain and garment seams can get. You may have to do some truing of lines, after tracing. HTH. Cea |
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