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My First Pencil Skirt From My Block
Hand made Pencil skirt and Butterick 5526 Hi! So, I’ve been talking about the skirt block class I’ve taken and I just want to wrap that up. I gave all the info here so I wont go over that again, but I did want to talk about the process. In the class, we went through a number of lessons over five weeks. We learned how to make our own personal croqui by printing out a picture of ourselves and tracing over it. We used these croquis to design our own skirts. We could follow along with the instructor or design our own skirts. The beauty of it is we drew…
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My First Skirt Block Draft
Hey!!! So, I’m excited to share a little about my first skirt block! I’m going into week four of a five week course. No, I told you , I’m not trying to come out with a line of sewing patterns, but I am trying to streamline my fitting process. If you remember the pencil skirt I made here, I had a few fit issues. I think that was the point where I knew I needed to get a block. Many of my favorite bloggers and fit experts use them, actually Andrea from Sew to Fit has a tutorial showing how she uses her pants block to evaluate a new…
