Feeling overwhelmed, I needed to come up with a strategy of what to start with, and simple seems best. So, today, I finally got my drafting board out. Thoroughly cleaned with industrial automotive glass cleaner—because, what else would you use when you own no cleaning supplies except for the ones that come from your significant other's automotive shop—I began my first pattern drafting project, the basic straight skirt. Which actually lead to, you might not believe this, success! May not seem very exciting, but it is great to be in a place where I can experiment and learn, hopefully, without things going to astray.
Yesterday morning, before the serger incident, I persuaded Ramon to take all of my measurements based on what I learned in my pattern-making class. I tried to make myself as much like a model-form as possible, meaning, still, and with seams. This made the task much less exciting for Ramon, who, last time he graciously tried to help record my measurements, had the pleasure of doing it while I stood in underwear. Ramon decided that blue painter's masking tape—cut into 1/4" x 1/4" squares—was needed to make sure that things were lining up. Pretty inventive. He also measured my short pony legs like he measures a car's suspension, but I can't argue. With all of the blue tape, in the end I looked like an old cougar leaving the plastic surgeon's office with future corrections indicated. Lift. Tuck. Etc.
Well, as it turns out, Ramon did a great job! I had to alter the first drafted skirt pattern in a few spots after making the muslin. But I got the kinks worked out, and now it fits ... perfectly! Tomorrow I will finish drafting the complete skirt patterns for both of the following, and then I need to find fabric for both.
For the black skirt I am going to do a kick-pleat in the back, so I will need to figure out how to draft that. I can't see the back very well in any of the images that I can find, or the runway video, but I think that a small kick-pleat would work well.
Other successes include 1. fixing the serger, and 2. taking my Gap Kids sherpa jacket that I love, but never fit properly, cutting it up and turning it into a skirt in preparation for creating this skirt:
Pictures of the Gap Kids Sherpa jacket to come. For the rest of the evening I will be working on knitting my pink sleeves. I want to get this one done. The knitting and frogging is beginning to bore me.
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