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Posted by on November 13, 2006, 8:16 pm
Grace Kirkwood wrote:
> I have several worn out jackets hanging in my closet that I absolutely
> love and want to recreate. I am an advanced sewer but am wondering how
> difficult this would be to recreate a pattern from them without tearing
> them apart. Does anyone have any suggestions about doing the sleeves
> and collars? That is where I see I may have difficulty in getting them
> to tailor smoothly. My thoughts were to piece butcher paper together
> and sketch the sections, adding seam allowance. Any help and
> suggestions would be appreciated.
> Grace
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With most garments, tracing a pattern isn't difficult. I like to find
the grainline, mark it (use tailor's chalk, which washes out); then
start tracing the largest straight seam first. Lay the garment on a
large piece of paper, pin at strategic points, then pin-pierce the
paper all around the garment piece. I like to do this on a padded
board,--you can stick pins through it, straight up-and-down, to anchor
items, as if you were using a corkboard.
As you come to curved areas, you have to unpin/shift pins, as you
shift the garment curve.
The older the garment, the wonkier the straight-of-grain and garment
seams can get. You may have to do some truing of lines, after tracing.
HTH.
Cea
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