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Featured Articles: Demystifying Pants - Patternmaking Process and Theory Wednesday, 03 February 2010 A lot of people struggle with developing patterns for pants. There always seems to be problems: The crotch sags, the butt sags, the waist rides up, the crotch rides up; no matter what they do they just can not get that pattern to fit properly. What is the cause and how can we fix it? This article... List of FREE Pattern Drafting Resources Tuesday, 26 January 2010 Welcome to the Fashion Students Online FREE pattern drafting directory. We have worked very hard to find all the best FREE apparel patternmaking resources we can. This is a comprehensive list of apparel pattern drafting resources including tutorials, online books and online patternmaking courses. If you have ever wanted to make your own sewing patterns, here are all the resources you could ever want!

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How to use inspiration to make something COMPLETELY NEW
blogger: AJ
Sunday 7, February 2010
You know I finally figured out what this part 3 of our course is all about. The whole shape and form thing...I just didn't get it. It is why I have not made many blog postings: I honestly did not know what to write about. I did not understand what was happening and could not explain what we had done or what our homework was.

Anyway, I realize that we had a 3D part for learning about 3d aspects of art. Then we had a 2D part for learning skills and being exposed to many different styles, techniques, types of 2d, etc. This part here is about literally exploring shape and texture and rhythm and colour. She doesn't want anything she can recognize, it's not the point. The point of part 3 is to improve our techniques with developing texture, combining colour, and using non-distinguishable shapes...

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Notebooks, folders, textbooks, and a computer
blogger: Daniel
Monday 01, February 2010
I spent the first weekend of the semester sewing, studying, and doing homework. I hope I can keep up these good work habits for the next four years.

I mounted the 125 swatches in the kit for my textiles lab. Hopefully they are still in the correct order. If by the end of the semester I can identify all 125 swatches I will consider my tuition money to have been very well spent.

As I was mounting my swatches I was thrilled every time I found one I recognized: muslin, corduroy, denim, and duck. Of those muslin is the one I know the most about, and even for muslin I cannot yet fill out all the lines in the book. As I learn more about textiles I will start making smarter choices at the fabric store...

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