Thursday, February 18, 2010

Clothes patterns are a different breed

I'm making a dress for Molly. Its first life will be a shop sample. I decided to be thrifty and trace the pattern onto cheap interfacing (a trick of Monica's) so that I don't destroy the original pattern. It's KwikSew pattern 3767 and it's going to be super cute! I'm doing the one on the left, in better fabrics.Anyway, I traced the outlines in pencil, figuring I'm going to cut them out anyway. But I wanted to make the notches and other notations permanent. So I traced them with a Sharpie. I ended up putting wax paper underneath so the Sharpie wouldn't bleed. But look at my hand!
There must be a better way. Help, garment sewers! What should I do in the future?

4 comments:

  1. I know nothing about garment sewing, but that dress is going to be adorable.

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  2. hmmm. sorry, can't help you with weird stuff like that although my lame suggestion is... wear gloves? :D but i love the dress! so cute.

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  3. Despite the mess, the sharpie is the easiest method I have found! Though if you think you might use the pattern a great deal I do sometimes trace it onto muslin instead of the stabilizer. I think the blue hands are attractive. RT will love being married to a smurf!

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  4. I will be hunting that pattern for Fiona. Will Molly wear the hat? I trace all my patterns with a sharpie on "yellow trash" used by architects. I know Joyce used to sell it and you can also find it at office supply stores. I also keep the pattern sizes sepatate in their own envelopes.

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