04 March 2012

I'm Just Not Smart Enough For This

I would really like to make more garments (or any) traced from European pattern magazines. I actually like the process of tracing, I enjoy the challenge of picking my line out of the Burda rats' nest. So far, however, the only project I've finished is a skirt--a rok--from the April 2011 KnipMode, which, however, turned out to be enormous. Even so, it was well-designed and the whole enterprise was fun. I'm thinking of growing into it.

So I subscribed to Burda Plus through Amazon a while ago. A few weeks ago my second and last issue, Spring/Summer 2012, landed in the mailbox.

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Without thinking about it too hard, I decided to run up a blouse, #425, out of some light drapey black stuff in my stash. (I really shouldn't have forgotten what the stuff in my stash is--I haven't been at this that long!) It's a weird blouse, with one long sleeve and one short and a back twice as wide as the front.

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Incidentally, I found this picture at the Russian Burda site, where I also found Cidell of Miss Celie's Pants prominently displayed in her Puffy Sleeve Dress!

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Anyway, tracing is even more fun when the pattern parts are oddly shaped and too wide to fit on the paper in one piece but I managed to figure it out. Then, the hard part behind me, I proceeded to cut the whole thing in fashion fabric without remembering to add the !@#$% seam allowances!





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14 comments:

  1. gwensews05 March, 2012 05:57

    You, Professor, I believe are definitely smart enough to make that Burda pattern. Just do what you would instruct your students to do. Make it work!

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    1. KC05 March, 2012 22:07

      There's smart and then there's smart. My students would have it done for them!

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  2. Mary05 March, 2012 09:09

    It will just be more fitted! Make it work. :-)

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  3. Magpie Mimi05 March, 2012 10:09

    I can sympathise, but it's such a drapey top I'm sure you can make it work like the others said!

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  4. Beangirl05 March, 2012 13:35

    hahah! I have done that SO many times (and not just when I was starting out, sad to say). As for the KnipMode, I've found that in the upper sizes they tend to run large. I've found that with BurdaMode as well. I think they allow quite a significant more amount of wearing ease for "plus". In which case, seam allowance-schmeam allowance. You won't need them!

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    1. KC05 March, 2012 22:11

      You folks are right, no doubt. Thanks!

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  5. Jillybejoyful05 March, 2012 21:55

    I do believe you have a LOT of company in the forgotten SA camp! And I'm sure we are all quite brilliant...we just have that absent-minded creative genius way of doing things, you know? ;-)

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  6. Suzanne06 March, 2012 10:52

    OH KC! SILLY GIRL!! Burda rat's nest made me LOL

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  7. Carolyn11 March, 2012 00:53

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  8. Lizzie - The Vintage Traveler14 March, 2012 17:20

    " Burda rats' nest" + the most perfect description ever!

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  9. Carolyn15 March, 2012 07:10

    I'm sure you can make the blouse work, maybe it will just be a bit more well-fitted? Forgetting the seams allowance, we all have done it!
    Thank you for your (second) lovely comment. That was nice of you.

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  10. Anonymous28 March, 2012 14:15

    What a pain after all that work of tracing. I often forget to add seam allowances so I have to add them on to the tracing as well.

    I've nominated you for another trophy for your cabinet but please don't feel obligated.

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  11. Seraphinalina03 May, 2012 08:54

    Ha! My favourite "wait a minute... did they include SA or not..." moment was making a bra. No, they did not, and no, it did not fit and because it's taking a little out of all those seams, even the proportions just didn't work so I'm not sure who it would fit. How did it turn out?

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