If you’ve read any of my blog you’ll know I keep trying to avoid the topic of sewing because I need to place emphasis on the pattern making. Afterall that’s what the site is all about … teaching fashion students how to make patterns for ready-to-wear close fit stretch garments. While the site isn’t necessarily aimed at home sewists, I do realise there’s probably more of you reading the site these days! Let’s try to keep to sewing questions rather than duplicating pattern topics covered elsewhere on the site, although I understand sometimes overlap is necessary!
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Ami, it could have worked, if dress and fabric have similar stretch and you did things correct. What is wrong about the result?
Hi im a dancer (pole dancer) and am really finding it a struggle to find any patterns out there to suit my needs. i will only be using stretch fabrics (not sure if that makes a difference to patterns?). I thought if i laid one of my old dresses out on my fabric allowed for a seam allowance and got snipping out my pattern pieces, needless to say it went horribly wrong and looked no where near a well fitting dress. where did i go wrong? am i underestimating the complexity of patterns?
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