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Sewing - Intro to Garment Fitting
Fit is an essential skill in garment making, but it is one that is rarely taught. Spend the afternoon and morning with pattern maker Nita-Jane gaining vital fitting and basic pattern making skills that will help create garments that you really want to wear.
Teacher: Nita-Jane McMahon
Workshop Duration: Full day
Description: Using the Willow tank as a base you will learn how to fit and or alter a basic top. Techniques will include taking measurements and pattern mapping, pivoting and adding darts, fixing gapes, analysing pull lines and reshaping necks and arm holes.
Materials to bring:
- Willow pattern. This is available to purchase from Grainline Studio.
- a pre-made Willow top in calico - no finishing, sewn darts, shoulders and side seams; add stay stitching around neck and armholes at seam line.
- paper scissors
- fabric scissors
- pins
- tape measure
- french curve
Takeaway: You will leave with a new pattern with all adjustments translated. If fitting the Willow isn't an issue, you can use techniques to redesign style lines.
Level: Advanced Beginner
Prerequisites: Garment making experience of at least three tops.
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.