Bodice sloper

This tutorial for beginners is on how you can draft your own bodice block. I've kept the tutorial simple, using as little body measurements as possible.

Whew! This is going to be difficult you guys, because frankly I want to give you the exact directions from the pattern drafting book I us...

Sloper is a mold of the body with wearing ease and they don’t have any design details and no seam allowances. Once you get a perfect fit in your sloper, you’ll get a perfect fit in any of your other patterns. … Read More

Sloper is a mold of the body with wearing ease and they don’t have any design details and no seam allowances. Once you get a perfect fit in your sloper, you’ll get a perfect fit in any of your other patterns. … Read More

So after last week's incredibly fun foray into math...because, sure, math is fun, now we must focus on making the new sloper pattern we have drafted fit properly. It is very doubtful your new sloper will fit perfectly right after you plot it out, or if like me you resorted the the standardized measurement chart it is almost certain that the resulting pattern won't fit you perfectly! Never fear, we aren't looking for perfect, at least not yet! Time to start fixing and fitting! So you have…

In this post we'll show you how to divide one dart into two or more darts to allow for better bodice fitting!

How to use a sloper based on your measurements to fit a sewing pattern to yourself.

Darts are added to a garment as they take up the excess fabric and help to fit the pattern on body contours. In a Basic Bodice pattern of women's wear there is shoulder and waist dart in front and only waist dart at back. On Basic Skirt Sloper, there are two waist darts each at front and at back. Darts are formed to fit body contours that vary in shape and size and they may appear as straight, concave and convex converging lines on finished garment.

How to Make a Bodice Pattern - Draft a sloper pattern based on your own measurements to help you fit patterns to yourself.