Slash and Spread ... HowTo (for Dummies)

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This is just the base sloper from the HJA book. It only consists of the bodice back & front and the sleeve. Since the front has the most adjustments that can be made to the sloper, I’ve hidden the back & sleeve. As you can see in the Variables Table, I have full descriptions at each item so that I don’t forget what to change when I do need to change something. I try to keep the variables down to the bare minimum, and only the most important, so that I don’t get lost in long lists of variables, …

Here, I’ve used the slash & spread technique to adjust the pattern for cup size and for rotating the darts. Each dart rotation is in its own group, so you can view the original and any rotation in the same pattern.