Studio workflow

[Douglas]

@nina_theatticlier

I am onto my next project, and I am reflecting on my workflow. I think I need to incorporate draping and/or a physical working pattern while I draft in Seamly to help me see in real life what I am doing on a computer.

Hi Nina…

Take a look at this topic. It’s a shift dress one of my employees draped on a dress form, from which I used as a proof of concept to see if I could enter the pattern in Seamly2D, and apply standard grading rules to adjust the pattern per someone’s measurements. In other words, it’s a way to enter (digitize) an existing pattern of a known size, and have it size to measure.

Shift Dress Pattern

This is a pattern based on a basic shift dress with gathering at the bust one of my employees draped on a dress form. We’re not sure of the exact size of the form as it was old and got recovered, but the measurements are 37-28-38 and we’re calling a size 12. What I hope you find interesting is the method I came up with - a way to code the formulas so that instead of drafting a pattern based on a system, it grades an existing pattern. How I accomplish this is to apply formulas at standard grade…

We do mockups all the time in my shop, and sometimes - like a recent job that was just not working after 2-3 drafts and mockups - it’s just easier to drape it.