I recognize this just might be my geeking out with sewing but I am so excited. FYI, I like math…a lot. The whole reason I got into sewing was the math behind it. A world of geometry.
I used inkscape to design a reconstructable bodice to my measurement. I have always wanted something more reconstructable and so I don’t have to go through so many materials when drafting. There really is no good option but now there is. When designing it I even added in the “2"x2” test print to make sure my conversion is correct when it comes into the glowforge app.
I then segmented it out with the main lines I use when drafting and the results have passed my pattern checking:
It’s a shaper that you can return back to drafting state. Normally you have to draft your bodice on muslin and then drawn your lines and cut it up. But now I can skip some steps because my bodice can reassemble. Basically cross over of sewing with puzzles.
This is called a sloper in costume building/pattern making circles if you wanted to google further about them. There’s assorted software out there to generate them from measurements but I’ve found human drawn (digital or otherwise) are still better.
Maybe, though I can’t think of what our studio would’ve used it for. We were just patterns and runway samples. We sent out basic samples to sample making studios. I’d probably just be mass producing French curves since we seemed to be breaking them constantly.
I knew that. My sister got her degree in costume design and introduced the concept to my mother. It just came out of my fingers wrong. I have always struggled with nouns. I can know and remember everything about the noun but cannot pry the noun out of my mouth with a front loader.
Typing, nobody reads the empty gaps, and Google is a savior. The most terrible nouns for this to happen… girlfriend’s names.