{"id":2236,"date":"2012-11-02T17:34:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T00:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2012-11-04T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T18:28:04","slug":"essential-pattern-making-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2012\/11\/essential-pattern-making-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Pattern Making Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Essential Pattern Making Tools<\/h2>\n<p>This fall I have taken in two new apprentices, Poppy and Misia. They are learning sewing, pattern making and design techniques.\u00a0 One stitch at a time we are working on collaborative pieces, that employ the subtle nuances of building a well crafted belly dance costume.\u00a0\u00a0 They are learning that a big component of the design process is making custom patterns. Many sewers treat commercial patterns as if they are the word of law, rarely deviating from the way they are drawn. Pattern making allows a designer to work from an existing pattern, modify a sloper or draft something completely new. There are relatively few things that you need to get started pattern making.\u00a0 Below are the essential tools that you need to make your own patterns.\u00a0\u00a0 Along with a few good reference books, and a class to get your started on the basics, pattern making is a very potent tool in the\u00a0 costume designer arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 600px; margin: 0 auto;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/essential_pattern_making_tools\/set?.embedder=3102826&amp;.svc=copypaste&amp;id=62421756\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Essential Pattern Making Tools\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cfc.polyvoreimg.com\/cgi\/img-set\/.sig\/uONvzMDEfqkGUYpORubAIg\/cid\/62421756\/id\/CtY769IbQ3qTnb0tSl1J7g\/size\/c600x496.jpg?resize=580%2C479\" alt=\"Essential Pattern Making Tools\" width=\"580\" height=\"479\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/essential_pattern_making_tools\/set?.embedder=3102826&amp;.svc=copypaste&amp;id=62421756\" target=\"_blank\">Essential Pattern Making Tools<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/davinadevine.polyvore.com\/?.embedder=3102826&amp;.svc=copypaste\" target=\"_blank\">davinadevine<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Polyvore<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 600px; 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text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyvore.com\/cgi\/thing.outbound?.embedder=3102826&amp;.svc=copypaste&amp;id=69219501\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Needle Point Tracing Wheel &#8211; Pattern Making &amp; Fitting &#8211; Supplies -&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nnancysnotions.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2012\/11\/essential-pattern-making-tools\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/c600x496.jpg?fit=150%2C124&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/c600x496.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/c600x496.jpg?resize=150%2C124&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/c600x496.jpg?resize=300%2C248&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-attachment-id=\"2239\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2012\/11\/essential-pattern-making-tools\/essential-pattern-making-tools-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/c600x496.jpg?fit=600%2C496&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,496\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Essential Pattern Making Tools\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/c600x496.jpg?fit=300%2C248&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/c600x496.jpg?fit=580%2C479&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><p>Essential Pattern Making Tools This fall I have taken in two new apprentices, Poppy and Misia. They are learning sewing, pattern making and design techniques.\u00a0 One stitch at a time we are working on collaborative pieces, that employ the subtle nuances of building a well crafted belly dance costume.\u00a0\u00a0 They are learning that a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/c600x496.jpg?fit=600%2C496&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YZtR-A4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}