wait - what?
Sep. 14th, 2011 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonI decided to take a 1930s detour before I started the vest by doing a 1/3 size test version of one of the patterns from Kirke's Vionnet book. This was intended to be a short, throwaway experiment, but hasn't turned out that way.
For the uninitiated: Vionnet was a couturier of the early 20th century who specialized in drape and bias cut. The book in question is one woman's flat pattern drafts based on these garments that were originally designed on a 3 dimensional form.
Given that the pattern pieces aren't shaped like traditional flat patterns, I'm using an old sheet and making a small version so as not to waste tons of good fabric on a learning curve. At the same time, I do have a pattern and it's only 3 pieces, so I figured, how hard can it be?
Bwaahahaha!
I got turned around right away. Part of this is that it's not going together the way I expected and part of it is poor written directions and no diagrams. Check it out:
Wait, what? was I supposed to stitch something at (1)? Match WHAT side of the wool part to the back of I? Does "back" mean back of the garment or wrong side of the fabric??
So this is turning in to a pile of crazy comparable to the Donna Karan mobius dress.
I've only found one account online of someone who's tried to scale up these patterns and she recommends a Japanese book by Bunka Fashion College tutors that includes diagrams and scale. Not sure I want to pony up for this book just yet as I have so many other projects/books in the queue.
Ideas/solutions welcome. I'm going to take one more crack at this before moving on to the vest.
For the uninitiated: Vionnet was a couturier of the early 20th century who specialized in drape and bias cut. The book in question is one woman's flat pattern drafts based on these garments that were originally designed on a 3 dimensional form.
Given that the pattern pieces aren't shaped like traditional flat patterns, I'm using an old sheet and making a small version so as not to waste tons of good fabric on a learning curve. At the same time, I do have a pattern and it's only 3 pieces, so I figured, how hard can it be?
Bwaahahaha!
I got turned around right away. Part of this is that it's not going together the way I expected and part of it is poor written directions and no diagrams. Check it out:
1. Match lines F-D of wool part II to the back of lines F-D of part I.
2. Stitch lines F-D of velvet part II on line stitched at (1).
Wait, what? was I supposed to stitch something at (1)? Match WHAT side of the wool part to the back of I? Does "back" mean back of the garment or wrong side of the fabric??
So this is turning in to a pile of crazy comparable to the Donna Karan mobius dress.
I've only found one account online of someone who's tried to scale up these patterns and she recommends a Japanese book by Bunka Fashion College tutors that includes diagrams and scale. Not sure I want to pony up for this book just yet as I have so many other projects/books in the queue.
Ideas/solutions welcome. I'm going to take one more crack at this before moving on to the vest.
