Darts in skirts

The Basic Skirt draft of women's wear explained in this post has two waist darts in Front and two at Back. These darts eliminate the extra ease / fullness of fabric and help to drape the fabric crease free on waist to hip section.

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To draft A-line skirt, you can use basic skirt pattern and transfer darts. Draw slash lines and close them.

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Steffen Schraut Black Skirt Dart

The Pattern Making Academy on Instagram: "⛔️⛔️Flexibility of skirt darts⛔️⛔️ _______________________________ Do you know that the skirt dart can also be manipulated? If you’re playing around with your basic skirt block and thinking of moving the back dart from the waist seam where it’s typically found, The questions are: Does it makes sense to move the darts there? What will it look like with a dart there? Will it look strange and make a garment that nobody would dream of wearing? Rather…

The recent skirt pattern with bamboo petal folds looks like this. 😊 It's the front piece only, but the back piece works in the same way. So, at the base, there's an A-line skirt. If you're starting from the basic skirt block, rotate the waist dart towards the hem and straighten the side seam by adding flare. Divide the length into three horizontal sections (more or less, depending on the length). Then, divide the front piece evenly into 4 vertical sections before separating the horizontal…

Darts are an essential part of creating the shape and fit of a garment, but there are a few different types of darts in sewing

One of the most essential components of a well-fitted garment is the dart. Let’s dive into the world of darts and explore the different types of darts in sewing. […]

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The peg skirt is back! Everywhere I look, I keep running into peg skirts. They are rather unmistakable, small at the waist, flared out at the hips and then narrow at the hem line.A peg skirt is quite easy to draft. This will be the first of a two part post. Today I will show you how to start the draft of a peg skirt. Next Tuesday I will finish the draft and show you my finished skirt as well. The skirt that we will draft will have a yoke, pleats and a side pocket. The finished skirt will be…

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Empire waist dress pattern draft; Wrap-over bodice pattern draft, Surplice dress pattern draft

So, as you probably gathered from my post yesterday, I am quite pleased with the results of my first draping project. However, there were a couple, ahem, bumps in the road on the way to success. Can you spot the problems in the above picture? Because, seriously, they're about to poke your eyes out. Please allow me to share the entire story. French darts, as you may know, are diagonal darts side seam darts that start a couple inches above the waist and end near the apex of the bust. (Update…