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Good Morning All!!! Playing around with darts is something I have enjoyed from the first moment I began to learn anything about pattern drafting. I'm sure you've seen pictures like the one below, interesting, but intimidating for sure. The picture gives ideas, but no instruction about how to actually move the darts around. It also seems rather dated. But, take a look at the picture below, a lovely vintage Vogue pattern, right out of the 1940's. The dress was lovely then and now. Now take a look at this dress. Same idea as above, but with a very modern take. Here's another idea on creating dart interest. Notice that the darts are actually sewn so that they show on the outside of the garment. The middle dart radiates to the bust point, but the other 2 are above and below the bust. Here's another idea of creating interest with darts. Once again they are sewn to the outside of the garment, and extra interest was added by inserting leather. To create the skirt below, the darts were incorporated into the princess seam lines. The darts along the outside panels offer nothing more than interest. The dress below shows how the darts of the bodice were divided and then formed to radiate from the waistline over the bust. The design was repeated in the skirt where the skirt waist darts were rotated to the side seam and then flared out over the hips. Here's another lovely example of radiating darts creating interest with this Decades of Style pattern. With the dress below, all of the darts were rotated to the shoulder and developed into tuck of flange, which works beautifully with the draped back. Below is a wonderful example of darts that create an illusion of fit. The top is a Marcy Tilton pattern. There is a slight amount of fit at the waistline, but the darts give the illusion of more fit than there actually is. Here's the flat drawing of the blouse. Just a lovely use of dart manipulation. You can find the pattern HERE if you are interested. It's a style that would look great on just about every body type. Here's another fabulous use of dart rotating. Darts were rotated to create the princess seam line and then moved into the neckline. A dress that at first looks very simple is really quite complicated. Great design! The dress is from the Reem Acra Spring 2013 collection. The entire collection, although 2 years is old, is lovely wand well worth a look. If you would like to give rotating darts a try, just google "dart manipulation" and you should be able to find how it is done. It's basically quite simple. Get a basic bodice, draw in a line where you would like a dart to be, cut on that line and then close up the existing dart. Like magic a new dart will open up! Hope your week is off to a lovely start! Rhonda
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Designed by Howard Greer for Katharine Hepburn in her first leading role (as Cynthia Darrington, Christopher Strong), this Dress, jacket (with long or short sleeves) and hat ensemble was made available in pattern form by the Butterick Pattern Company as part of their 'Starred' series! In 2007, I created this multi-size pattern from the size 16 (34" bust) original vintage pattern (available here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/758438920/1933-katharine-hepburn-ensemble-single?ref=listings_manager_grid) for size set A, fitting 30" to 34" bust, 25" to 28" waist, 33" to 37" hip, size set B, fitting 36" to 40" bust, 30" to 34" waist and 39" to 43" hip or size set C fits 42" to 46" bust, 36" to 40" waist, 47" to 49" hip. 3/4" seams are given at underarm (all side) seams and 3/8" seams are given on all other edges. The center back seam of the jacket lay on true bias, so plaid or striped fabrics show off the chevron effect! The seam joining the bodice and skirt of the dress is shaped at the built-up waistline to follow the line of the jacket's lower edge for uninterrupted flattering lines. I would consider the jacket an advanced sewing level, as a gusset is sewn into the underarm. I have provided additionally illustrated instructions for this. See my shop listings for the jacket available separately (per this link:) https://www.etsy.com/listing/248841718/1933-katharine-hepburn-jacket-evadress?ref=shop_home_active_30 I wrote for Threads Magazine based on this pattern. See article here: http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/4669/working-with-vintage-patterns/page/all Read about my jacket project in black wool tweed in Threads Magazine Gallery here: http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/26895/katharine-hepburn-jacket All of my patterns are in stock as I print them in house, on demand. Celebrating over 20 years of bringing you accurately reproduced vintage patterns! See me at www.EvaDress.com for hundreds (yes, HUNDREDS) more! PATTERN NOT IN YOUR SIZE? Upon request, I am happy to furnish an additional schematic showing where to adjust the pattern pieces with instructions on how to re-size the pattern.
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Good Morning and welcome to a new week! Last week I posted pieces from the Peter Pilotto collection that they are doing for Target. I loved the mix of patterns and colors, but a number of you, well, let's just say you didn't care for it :) I have always loved mixing patterns. Recently, a friend was over and she commented on the fact that I was wearing a pair of pinstripe pants with a patterned top. She loved it but said that she is apprehensive about mixing prints. She shared that when she mixes prints and stripes her sisters comment that she should not be doing that. My philosophy is, if you like how it looks, wear it and if you aren't comfortable, well that's fine too. After all, if we all looked the same, what fun would that be?!!! Like many of you, I collect lots and lots of pictures as inspiration. So today I thought I would show you a few of my stored away photos. Sadly, I cannot give credit to anyone as I saved the pictures without saving designers or websites. Does this dress remind you of a dress I made last summer? I really love this fabulous use of denim, tattered edges and all!!! Love the "shelf" band under the bust. You just might see something similar to this as a Fabulous Free Patter Friday piece ;) These insets give me tons of ideas! Now, before you think I'm crazy, I don't care for the see through bra ;), but I love the work on the skirt and jacket. Of course I would like the skirt to be a bit longer as well!! This is such a sweet jacket. You have to look closely to see the bows on the sleeves. It's difficult to see, but I think the fabric of the dress below is quilted. Regardless, I like the cascading fullness down the sleeves. Great sleeve idea! This dress is just so gorgeous. Not for everyone, but I love the horizontal stripes with the bow detail. Fun use of old t-shirts. Oh my goodness do I ever love this cape!!! Another wonderful sleeve. Very simple, but such a lovely idea for a shawl. So that's it for today. I could go on and on, but I would rather not bore you too much!! Reminds me of a concert that my husband and I went to a few years back. I love the work of Doyle Dykes. He is such a gifted guitarist. He came to a point during the concert where he said that he had one more thing to share before he finished. My husband yelled out, "not so soon!!!" Doyle replied, "I found out the hard way that I can play longer than you can listen." And I can write longer than you can read!!! Wishing you all a wonderfully inspired week. Rhonda
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