Drape & Pattern Exam preparations

[janestarz]

Last night I was still dead tired from &Eva but I dragged myself to school anyway. It wasn't wholly in vain despite my lack of enthusiasm because we learned something I'd wanted to learn for a while: patterns with a drape.

I had read in Detje Bosgra's book (thank you again, anemoona!) that you can fold out your darts to create a drape in your pattern, but I'd never done this before. I was very interested to lear it, but had not yet taken the time. When Hanny said last night "we'll work on an asymmetrical pattern" it caught my interest to be sure, but I'd never expected that it would include draping.

The trick to it is in part that you're allowed to move the bust point a bit. Normally this is no more than 2 cm, but when making a drape or pleated bit it can move as much as four centimeters, because the garment will not be as fitted as other garments might be. On the right half of the pattern, we created two bust points, even. One was 4 cm above the old bust point and allowed us to rotate the top dart closed so the first drape would open up. The other one was 4 cm below the old bust point and allowed us to rotate the bottom dart closed so the second drape would open up.
It sounds pretty complicated, and it is. When we had drawn all the design lines into the pattern, I had no idea how to make the pattern pieces from it, but once we got started I got the gist of it pretty soon. It certainly opens up possibilities and I haven't forgotten my promise to myself about that drape-y heavy linen at the market.

Hanny also warned us. It's seven weeks until the exam, and we're going to be working towards the exam from now on. We've pretty much covered all the basic pattern making so far, so it's just repetition, new interpretations of new line drawings of different garments and exercising to keep focus. We're supposed to make 2 pieces of homework now, each week. One coat and one gown at half scale. And we're going to be working through them every week, so we understand why certain things are done a certain way. She will only be looking at the collars and the basic block, and the rest will be discussed in the lessons.
It's a pretty rigid schedule, but it's all for the best. The exam is going to take most of the day on April 20th, and we need to be able to keep our focus.

Comments

[anemoona.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... van deze kan ik mij even geen voorstelling maken, die moet je mij zondag maar laten zien.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

En dat is precies waar ik last van had, totdat we het in de les gingen behandelen ;-)