Jacket... Part 1 of ???
Jul. 25th, 2015 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisYears and years ago, I copied pants and blouses and dresses by taking them apart and using their pieces as patterns. It sucked as a method and also meant I lost the original. I rarely did it for my own clothes only for clients who were willing to give up their favorites to get copies.
But now we have google. I researched a bunch of different ways to make a pattern from clothes that you did not want to destroy and found one that does not work great for fleece but works plenty good enough.
Using painters and masking tape, I made a taped version of the pattern piece right on the jacket. (Picture of me taking picture is tossed in for free here.)
Then I carefully removed the tape in one piece and placed it on the pellon.
Then I traced around it, added extra for seam allowance, marked instructions and BAM! I have a pattern piece!
I'm really quite tickled with the process and the product. There really are only 3 pieces to make for this simple jacket since I am going to make a different collar and different pockets. I need a front piece and a sleeve piece (I'll cut two of each but only need one pattern piece).
Notes:
1. I needed to have used heavier pellon.
2. I needed to have used higher quality (not as sticky) painters tape.
3. I needed to have overlapped the tape way more for better removal.
But now we have google. I researched a bunch of different ways to make a pattern from clothes that you did not want to destroy and found one that does not work great for fleece but works plenty good enough.
Using painters and masking tape, I made a taped version of the pattern piece right on the jacket. (Picture of me taking picture is tossed in for free here.)
Then I carefully removed the tape in one piece and placed it on the pellon.
Then I traced around it, added extra for seam allowance, marked instructions and BAM! I have a pattern piece!
I'm really quite tickled with the process and the product. There really are only 3 pieces to make for this simple jacket since I am going to make a different collar and different pockets. I need a front piece and a sleeve piece (I'll cut two of each but only need one pattern piece).
Notes:
1. I needed to have used heavier pellon.
2. I needed to have used higher quality (not as sticky) painters tape.
3. I needed to have overlapped the tape way more for better removal.
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Date: 2015-07-25 07:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-07-25 08:00 pm (UTC)Get skinny (for around the edges) and wide (for filling in the wide open spaces and one of those curved rulers would be very handy. I didn't have one but sure wish I did. EDIT: I didn't mean curved ruler but flexible ruler.
I just ran out of tape and I'm afraid if I went to the hardware store this afternoon I'd never get home again. So the sleeves will have to wait until tomorrow.
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Date: 2015-07-26 01:17 am (UTC)Anne in Ontario.