04 Aug Tuck and Panel Dress
Our fans made quick work of the #PatternPuzzle on Saturday morning. In the end, they realised that most of the design detail was on the back of this garment with the front remaining quite clean.
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21 Jul The Apron Dress
The going was tough early Saturday morning with very few attempts at guessing the detail in the #PatternPuzzle. Julie Eilber came the closest when she suggested it may be pregnant manatee. Later in the day Em Pea Horgosi came to the rescue and provided all the answers.
14 Jul Drape Collar Extension
Saturday was fun with loads of great answers in our #PatternPuzzle. The final piece of the puzzle was the 'long pointy thing' that had nearly everyone stumped. The grown-on band collar is an extension of the front drape in this bias cut top.
07 Jul Shoulder Drape Tee
The Saturday #PatternPuzzles have featured many 'on-trend' fashion styles and this week is no exception. The shoulder drape featured is currently popular and turns up in many fashion collections. Our fans were excellent at spotting all the design detail and solving the puzzle.
30 Jun Turnback Thinking
The Double Turnback Drape is not especially new. We have featured it twice in our #PatternPuzzles and although it's not the most challenging pattern to cut, it is so attractive in its simplicity. The Twist and Turnback Top and the Twist Jumper. This particular design detail is featured across many fashion ranges and is relatively easy for the enthusiast sewer to interpret, using patterns they already have in their stash.
23 Jun Flare and Gather Dress
A very clever bunch of #PatternPuzzlers were able to nail all the detail in this complex design on Saturday. The most baffling part of the pattern shape are the very deep tucks in the left shoulder. This draped style mixes straight and bias grains with tucks and gathering and an invisible zip in the left side seam.
16 Jun The Draped Peasant Dress
Last Saturdays #PatternPuzzle pays homage to Yohji Yamamoto’s SS 2002 collection. Fans made very light work of our pattern pieces and had the puzzle solved by lunchtime. Gloria Lucia Sandoval went to all the trouble of printing out the puzzle, cutting and assembling the tiny pieces to make sense of it for everyone. :)
09 Jun ‘The Blank’ by Ruth E Richman 1948
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So it's a weird one this week. Over sixty years old and born of a time that valued efficiency in manufacture over effective use of resources. Patent #2,454,208, invented by Ruth E Richman in 1946, was filed as:
'An object of the invention is to simplify the manufacture of blouses, coats and similar garments by constructing them from a blank consisting of a single piece of material.'
02 Jun Mioara Cretu Outfit #2
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This weeks #PatternPuzzle is a thing of genius from our regular contributor, Mioara Cretu, gifting us the most baffling #PatternPuzzle of all time last Saturday. You may remember her first contribution from last year, featured here. Mioara teaches pattern making at a Romanian university and has a weakness for jersey one-piece patterns!
And for all my fans, you've done a wonderful job this weekend finding the answers to such a challenging puzzle. Congratulations :)
26 May Twist or Cowl Shift Dress
When I first posted the sketch of the two versions of the Drape Shift Dress on FB Saturday, I labeled the cowl shift dress as a drape and created a little confusion. Happily Mioara came to our rescue with some clarity on the use of these terms. You'll find a video of the pattern making instructions on my Youtube channel.
