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It is a biological fact that the distance from the waist to the crotch is longer when sitting than when standing as you can see in the illustration above from How to Make Sewing Patterns. I learned this the hard way. The first time I made myself a pair of pants I made the waist seam horizontal, parallel to the hips. When I sat, the back of the pants exposed my buttocks.
I then researched pants and pants patterns and found that the Center Back seam was cut on the bias. You can confirm this by looking at any commercially made pair of pants that has a visible grain line. You
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Hi All,
I feel like I am talking to myself in this group. I can do that and it doesn't require a keyboard. Over at my Facebook MakerSpace Pattern Design group I have been working on a complete Computer Aided Pattern Design/Computer Aided Manufacturing CAPD/CAM process using desktop equipment. It looks like this process has the potential of eliminating the need to use paper patterns to create garments. I need to focus my efforts on this exciting development so I will be closing this group June 1st. I appreciate the interest you have shown by joining this group but....
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I have started a new Facebook group for discussing CAD and more importantly a venue for sharing designs suitable for desktop print-and-cut equipment MakerSpace Pattern Designs.
I have been in the process of preparing a mailing for my new book to the 356 library systems who have my How to Make Sewing Patterns that I discovered on the wonderful website WorldCat.org. I was impressed by the number of libraries that are creating MakerSpaces.
A MakerSpace is defined as "a place in which people with shared interests, especially in computing or technology, can gather to work on projects while sharing ideas, equipment,
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Amazon now has a button Read Sample for my book. This used to be Amazon's Look Inside. I am very excited that you can now see the table of contents, my introduction, and some of the initial pages that illustrate the differences between bespoke and ready-to-wear designs.
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One of the applications for the Mini-Mes described in Fashion & Costume Design in Quarter Scale is to display a design or design collection. Consider a wedding dress. A fair amount of time, money, and effort is expended to create a wedding dress. But it is "displayed" for less than a day and then put in storage. Photographs could be used to display the wedding dress. But a photograph is not nearly as effective as being able to see the design in three dimensions. On the other hand, a quarter-scale version of a wedding dress can be displayed whenever, wherever, and as long as desired.
The photo below shows some of the Mini-Mes included in Fashion & Costume Design in Quarter Scale.
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I got very excited when I learned about print and cut equipment and its potential use for pattern design. I spent a good part of this Summer researching it. For those of you similarly interested I have just added a web page to describe Print and Cut Resources. I found that because this equipment can be used for so many different crafts projects it was confusing to figure out what was required for using it for pattern design. I ended up buying things I did not need and ended up with tools I did not know how to use. This web page describes this equipment so you wont encounter the same issues.
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At long last my new book Fashion & Costume Design in Quarter Scale is beginning to see the light of day. Here is a brief description:
In Fashion & Costume Design in Quarter Scale, Don McCunn illustrates the vital differences between custom-fit bespoke patterns and ready-to-wear. He provides instructions and patterns for making quarter-scale dress forms (Mini Mes) and shows how designs can be prototyped in quarter scale with fabric. Introducing an original approach for creating fitted patterns for any body by tracing quarter-scale photos, he describes techniques for changing the Mini-Me patterns into limitless designs. He also introduces the concept of using CAD to create quarte
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I have just added a 10 minute video to the website for my new book at https://fashion-design-in-quarter-scale.com/CAD-CAM.html. It is really cool and I am having a lot of fun.
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Hi All,
Just wanted to let you know my new Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/bespokepatterns is quite chatted and has had some interesting things happening. Reminds me of my original Yahoo groups from two decades ago.
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