| Tip Of The Week Each week I'll post a new tip. It can cover garment care, stain removal, fashion. Just about anything having to do with every day life. I hope you enjoy the new page! |
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| Changing Darts In To Princess Seams! I finally did it! I got up the courage to change the shaping darts which I hate into princess seams. The princess seams look much better, anyway. First, I told myself that the worst that would happen is that I would have to draft a new pattern. Second, I have a lot of fabric I can practice on to see the final result. It worked up beautifully on the ugly fabric, so now I’m going to cut the top and dress I changed onto some fashion fabric. I smoothed out the shape of the shaping darts (kind of made them into rounded diamonds) and extended a straight line from the bottom of the darts to the bottom edges of the garments. Next, I decided where I wanted the seam to end since these are sleeveless garments and the seam had to end in the armscye. I drew a smooth curve from the top of the shaping dart to armscye. On the back, I was done except for the cutting. But, on the front I wanted to eliminate the bust dart (don’t like those either) because it will detract from the beauty of the princess seam. So, I taped the dart closed and that produced a new shape to the curve which accounted for the space of the dart. The new curve was more pronounced, but I had no problem easing it in since I’ve done many princess seams. The process was so easy it made me wonder what I was so afraid of in the first place. |
