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Exploring Pattern Making and Garment Construction for Students
Introduction
The art of pattern making and garment construction lies at the heart of the fashion and clothing design realm. These indispensable skills are the cornerstones for crafting fashionable and well-fitted attire. Whether you're an aspiring fashion design student or a DIY enthusiast eager to expand your creative horizons, comprehending the intricacies of pattern making techniques and garment construction basics is paramount. In this blog, we'll embark on an exploration of these fundamental aspects, providing insights and valuable tips for those new to the fashion industry.
Unlocking Pattern Making Techniques
Pattern making is the craft of crafting templates or blueprints that serve as the guiding force behind cutting and sewing fabrics to form the final product. Let's dive into the essential pattern making techniques:
Measurement and Sizing: The bedrock of triumphant pattern making lies in precise measurements. Proficiency in the art of accurate measurements is the cornerstone for ensuring a well-fitted final garment. Pay heed to keywords such as "measurement techniques" and "sizing standards" for comprehensive understanding.
Pattern Drafting: This is the process of giving birth to the initial pattern pieces on paper or in the digital realm. In your journey, acquaint yourself with essential keywords like "pattern drafting methods" and "pattern development."
Pattern Manipulation: The art of tweaking patterns to achieve specific design intricacies or alterations in fit. You'll find "pattern manipulation for design" and "fit adjustments" as valuable concepts to explore.
Pattern Grading: The gradual transition in pattern sizes, enabling the creation of various sizes for the same design. Unlock the secrets of "pattern grading techniques" and "size scalability."
Seam Allowances and Notches: These vital pattern elements guide the sewing process and the alignment of fabric pieces. Dive into the world of "seam allowance" and "pattern notches" to decode these key pattern instructions.
Mastering Garment Construction Basics
Once your patterns are meticulously crafted, the time has come to breathe life into them by transforming fabric pieces into tangible garments. Garment construction encompasses sewing, assembly, and the finesse of finishing touches. Here's a glimpse of some of the essential garment construction basics:
Cutting and Marking: With precision, cut the fabric pieces according to the patterns and mark significant points for alignment and seam matching. Familiarize yourself with keywords like "fabric cutting techniques" and "pattern marking."
Sewing Techniques: The mastery of various stitching methods, including straight stitches, zigzag stitches, and overlock stitches, is the bedrock for a polished and enduring finish. Delve into the universe of "sewing basics" and "essential sewing stitches."
Seams and Finishes: Grasp the array of seam types, such as French seams and flat-felled seams, along with finishing techniques like hemming and binding, to impart a polished look. Keywords like "seam types" and "fabric finishes" will be your guiding stars.
Fitting and Alterations: Discover the art of fitting garments on dress forms or live models and effecting necessary alterations for the perfect fit. The road to expertise lies in "garment fitting" and "alteration techniques."
Fastenings and Closures: Enhance your creations by incorporating zippers, buttons, hooks, and various closures. Learn the ins and outs of "garment closures" and "fastening methods" to add finesse to your designs.
In Conclusion
Pattern making and garment construction are the pillars of fashion design and clothing creation. For students and novices, this journey promises the fulfilment of creativity and the acquisition of indispensable skills. By immersing yourself in the realm of pattern making techniques and garment construction basics, using the keywords we've explored, you're well on your way to crafting beautiful, well-fitted garments that reflect your distinct style and creative vision. So, roll up your sleeves, gather your patterns, and begin the exciting journey of transforming your fashion dreams into reality.
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#marketing class is... fascinating /negative so far#gender is too Not A Big Deal to me for this#it puts so much weight on how traditional gender roles influence shopping habits#which like. it's just weird to have to throw myself into that mindset of 'men vs women' for a grade#because in my mind‚ the lines between the two lean pretty insignificant#like i get it. i'm not here to cancel this random ass course skjskdsd it's just a weird feeling to have to consciously lean INTO that#like there are objective demographic differences and patterns but it feels WEIRD to be reading my textbook about how#you should market cleaning supplies to women and beer to men#like i know it's all just about numbers and it's literally not that deep but it feels offputting to me personally sdksdks
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One Piece Warrior Cats AU: ASL Bros
Ace cat naming progression: Emberkit -> Emberpaw -> Emberwish
(black rosetted tabby tortie)
Sabo cat naming progression: (kittypet name) -> Wildpaw -> Wildfire
(apricot point, scottish fold)
Luffy cat naming progression: Sunkit -> Sunpaw -> Sunstorm -> Sunstar (eventually)
(calico)
#yes I know that tortie patterns are super rate in male cats#in my headcanon for this Ace is FTM and Luffy is XXY male#I haven't been commenting on gender for the others so far but i hc law as FTM too#funfact wildfire was the name given to me by the official warriors name generator when I was in like 6th grade#Luffys name was originally Wildcloud but I was really leaning into the sun theme so I decided to change it and then i gave the prefix 2 sab#if i make more ill just do a full body png and not worry about adding extra details#east blue crew is probably next if i continue#monkey d. luffy#portgas d ace#revolutionary sabo#sabo#asl brothers#one piece#warrior cats#warriors au#my art#homegrown worms
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Swallow tessellation, origami, my first original model!
Now with instructions here !!!!
#my art#origami#bird#swallow#tessellation#curved origami#second technically if you count my little fish base penguin modification I did in 7th grade lol#very proud of this! as usual my paper fun kind of obscures the legibility of the final model but oh well#teehee.#I'll post the crease pattern and some folding instructions later#mine#wrong art tag lol
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sometimes i'll think abt a Fandom and wish it were bigger, and sometimes i'll read something from a fandom.. and wish it were smaller
#ppl seeing a confident black man : FINALLY! A PERFECT ANTAGONIST FOR OUR STORY!#THE CORRUPTOR!! THE ASSHOLE! MR KNOWS ALL!#i want to be bigger into football. i rlly do#but . omg. sometimes seeing just So Much . side eye shit is . like imagine my exhaustion#and this isnt me trying to be the behavior police like let ppl write but sometimes seeing such. Fun. patterns can be like#idk man it's sad like damn thats rlly how the world is and obvs i KNOW how it can be but it's real wack#real wack being reminded even in ur supposed happy place ur supposed lighthearted little break from the world#it's still not . idk. it's just not#oh the poor pale blond qb just a little anxious baby oh and his evil zany teammates trying to corrupt him oh theyre so terrible for my angel#:/#.. that is. a Grown. Man .#it's like replaying my 2nd grade teacher ******** me bcs i was a troublesome kid and it made her feel young and alive and bad again#like wtf am i corrupting you with maam? skibbity toliet ? leave me alone !!#listen. if it were smthing like 'x rlly likes tomatoes' when he actually likes idk carrots? i would not give a fuck. infact i prefer carrots#but bad patterns have smthing more to say bcs patterns in general have a story#it's more than 'he would not fucking say that' it's 'WHY tf are YOU making HIM say THAT of ALL people & THINGS???'#like i love having asshole characters in my stories too. and they can be poc ! NO ONE is a saint!#but having one just to fuel the only one u actually care abt? having their problems solely be for plot?? & making that one#a SPECIFIC kind of person ?? is kinda giving me 'u dont view x as a human which could mean you dont view x race as humans'#WHICH IS !! IT SUCKS ! THAT SUCKS!#i know i need to just suck it up and ignore it but thats like the life quote of being poc isnt it#ugh#it sucks
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video tutorial this video tutorial that. i am begging you to understand that written instructions are also an accessibility need.
#actual written instructions!!!!!#not like recipe blog style single sentence -it will look like this- instructions#or -you can't find instructions in my maze of photographs-#downloaded a knitting pattern it was like follow my video instructions for this technique#it's fine bc she did do some written instructions and i have my beloved montse stanley#but it bugs me especially in knitting patterns because in my experience#knitting people are more focused on accessibility than sewing peoplr#and i Know that asking individuals to meet ALL of the accessibility options is a) a lot b) often unworkable#but this lady is all. professionally graded! professionally tech edited! size inclusive! cup options! and i do TRY not to complain about it#and like i say she did put written instructions but the like -look how helpful i am! watch this video! obviously this is how you learn!-#just made me GRRRRR
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GOD Bulletville makes me FUCKING insane.
Trusting each other and working together and being so damn good at it because they've been here before and this is what they do and who they are except now one's a lawman and one's a criminal and yet Boyd still goes to him when he's lost and yet Raylan still trusts Boyd to have his back. Raylan knowing Boyd's not going to use the gun he hands him against him and Boyd knowing Raylan's not going to pull on him because they dug coal together.
Motherfucker, this episode.
#the trust#the TRUST!!!!!!!!#the falling back into old patterns and old habits like no time has ever passed#the FUCKING TRUST#I'M FINE#Justifiedfx#bulletville#raylan/boyd#otp: we dug coal together#otp: i've known you since the third grade#what's it called when you hand a guy who's a known criminal and murderer a gun and trust him to have your back and then let him drive off#and don't do a thing to stop it#hmm#raylan x boyd#boyd x raylan
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I know that the Imperial system is bad and all but I gotta say. I do really like how it works for sewing
#was watching jan misali's video on the imperial measurement system and thinking.#yes metric system is easier to multiply by 10. but you are not multiplying by 10 when sewing#you are dividing#specifically by two more than once#which gets Real ugly with 10#but is very nice with 36 and 12 and fractions of an inch#I like being able to divide inches when doing seams instead of having to work in arbitrary numbers of millimeters (too precise)#or numbers of centimeters (not precise enough).#like you got 1'' 5/8'' 1/2'' 3/8'' 1/4'' 1/8''. very directly related to each other. all the precision you need. easy to remember#also easy to standardize for different 'types' of things you're sewing#clothes are 5/8'' or 1/2'' seam. accessories like purses are 1/2'' or 3/8''. quilts are 1/4'' and French seams are 1/8''#and you can remember that and use it when you don't have a pattern to work directly off of#yards and fractional yards are also really nice to work off of when buying fabric. inches turn into fractional yards really really nicely#you can take a 5'4'' measurement for a cloak#which is 64'' just by remembering the multiples of 12 (remember your times tables? i learned those in 3rd grade)#which is 1 and 2/3 yards! very easy to remember and go to the fabric store and buy the right amount of fabric#(though i would round it up to 1 3/4 yards just to be safe)#good Lord 95 percent of this post is in the tags. anyway#my posts#sewing
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watching this clip again and thinking about girlhood and reflection and time and gender roles. like, i see my 7-year old niece, and it's gut-wrenching to watch her be pushed into the same eldest-daughter patterns of performance and forced perfection that i was as a kid, knowing what waits for her and yet not being able to save her.
#as a kid/teen i was forced into perfection -- top grades. constantly performing. constantly being responsible. no fuck ups EVER.#ALWAYS empathetic. always compassionate. always having to regulate my emotions when adults around me exploded in fury.#i could go on. but all this screwed with my self-perception and sense of self-worth + self-esteem for literal DECADES#so it's just absolutely gut-wrenching to see those same patterns played out again and again and again#and i don't know how to fix it#does this make sense? i'm rambling again. it's late and i'm tired but god is girlhood so heavy#disclaimer: i'm approaching this as a white middle class person in the global north so my perception is influenced by those privileges#experiences of girlhood are affected by intersecting identities of race/class/etc. so my pov is very limited in that regard#on girlhood#feminism
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in first grade me and a friend of mine would beat each other up for fun and sometimes strike ridiculous made-up martial arts poses while doing it. we'd do this like multiple times a week during recess. and we also named our "fighting styles" after naruto characters. just to be clear where the inspiration came from
#her fighting style was “naruto” and mine was “gaara”. btw.#also they were not discernible fighting styles at all. we'd just swing at each other with no pattern#incredibly fun. i loved every second.#only in first grade bc in second grade her family moved to tanzania and she was only back sporadically a few weeks the next four years#but whenever she was back you KNOW we'd be back at it again at recess. weirdo kids.
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I've developed a new strategy to countering unhelpful urges to self sabotage out of spite- This approach is 'Would my friends* yell at me** for this?'
So, currently I'm dealing with the ordeal of 'if one more person tells me to drink more water for my chronic illness, as if I don't know my own chronic illness better than they do, then I'm going to intentionally drink as little water as I can for a week in response'. Unfortunately, 1.) I live with people who tell me this often, usually in spats they started, so I'd be drinking... not much water, and 2.) self sabotage is fine and great and fun (not really) until it's at the expense of your own health (really) so I've had to figure out ways to get my brain to back down from this. Because I have gone through with it before to bad results with frustratingly little satisfaction at the end of the spiteful road. Mostly, it just makes me black out more.
The current working strategy for...not-doing-this is 'would my friends yell at me for intentionally dehydrating myself', or 'would my friends yell at me for calling ritz crackers an adequate lunch' or 'would my friends yell at me for telling my parents I'm going on a walk, only to go sit on the curb a block over in January for an hour'? The answer tends to be yes.
Because here's the thing. Will I do health/wellbeing things out of compliance to authority? No. I actively want to do them less every time I'm told to, at this point. It makes me want to become the problem people think I am. HOWEVER, I will do these things for myself, my own future and wellbeing, and for my friends who care about said future and wellbeing. SO FAR this approach of stopping and asking, 'would [friend's name(s)] appreciate this?' actually works really well, because no, they'd absolutely not appreciate me doing that, and I currently value their opinion far more than other people's.
So congrats to my friends for getting me to drink water (or gatorade, or liquid IV or whatever else) by existing!
*This includes mutuals. Feel free to substitute with 'would I get a concerned anon about this?'.
**Note that my friends are lovely and would not actually yell at me <3 Some of them might give me some negative discord react emojis about it though lmfao :drew: :deadash6: :imnotmadimjustdisappointed:
#ok to rb#we stan recognizing our unhelpful behavioral patterns and trying to curb them <3#my third grade teacher liked to repeatedly call me defiant and oppositional. i kinda see it now#i think the term on my iep was 'pathological demand avoidance' but ksjdksjhxnbv same difference i guess#oversharing in the name of spreading helpful strategies#taylor's tag#long post
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im so silly. spent way too long thinking about dnd characters, what genders ive been playing the most recently, what that means and what i Should be doing to get a Good Grade in Being A Person, etc. because i forgot the golden rule of. You Can Do Whatever You Want Forever
#dumbass hours. theres no right way to Be. ur not getting graded. the mormon thought patterns got me AGAIN!!#deprogramming is a NIGHTMARE yet AGAIN
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Oopsy Daisy 🌼 // Mystery Bag
#mystery bag#sticker pack#b-grade#stickers#grid#colorful#flowers#floral#pattern#illustration#art#digital illustration#character design#kawaii aesthetic#kawaiicore#kawaii#digital art#artists on tumblr#kidcore
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i decided months ago that i am going to make a piece of the costumes i have to realise
i do not know how to sew
#this is an exaggeration-- i know basic stitches and some embroidery stitches#but nothing to the point of garment making#we arent taught that below the level of schooling im at#and i'm not a textiles student#i AM allowed to ask for the school to buy things like fabric patterns etc because its exams#i say all this when i havent even designed the costumes yet#really looking at my group and going woe...waistcoat be upon ye#BUT im thinking of putting the detective in arm garters#hnhnhnh i have to realise THREE costumes to a good enough extent in order to get a good enough grade#usually its all the costumes for two characters but i'll call budget time and resource constraints#(i have no budget no resources and barely any time)#(eugh)#daveys drama adventures#davey rambles
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Me if I ever get a really bad psychotic episode and think my friend is a hulking scary monster so hit them with a chair: whoops, had a psychotic aggression moment after being psychotic this past month. Might want to find a better way to keep myself and other ppl safe in case it happens again
Some people: no!111!!1!! That's just regular aggression!!!1!1 stop talking bad about psychotics!!1!!!!! It was ur fully lucid and self aware choice to hit ur friend with a chair!!1!!!! Literally there's no such thing as psychotic aggression1!!!!1! Kys op!!
#narcissistic abuse#discourse#mental illness#actually psychotic#actually schizospec#literally yes mental disorders can drive u to do bad or stupid things. why do you think people seek help for them.#because theyre sad sometimes?#even low grade depression or anxiety can make you suicidal. and being suicidal can make you careless and stupid bc u stop caring ab shit#so like. maybe stop pretending mental disorders cant drive u to harm ppl and start addressing how to stay safe#and make sure others r safe around u#me if i say i got mad jealous bc of adhd related rsd and was mean about it bc adhd related impulsivity#people: OH NO UR SAYING THAT ADHD MAKES PPL ASSHOLES GO DIE RN#literally. go away. mental illness is an illness and not a quirk. bad shit happens. people do bad shit to themselves and others driven by#disordered behaviour and thought patterns#and you know what helps prevent this? talking about it honestly and spreading awareness so we can all get the kind of help and coping skills#that we need. so those who need meds or therapy can. so ppl can realize#'hey i felt super offended over this thing someone did that wasnt about me and hurt them! thats a pattern for me!'#'maybe i should talk about it with a therapist that specializes in stuff like that or try to use calming coping methods-#to calm myself down when i get really angry and see if it's worth hurting someone over!'#please take a moment to reflect#who are you helping by denying the disordered nature of mental illness
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