Showing posts with label Lutterloh pattern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lutterloh pattern. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Lutterloh not forgotten
Oh Lutterloh I won't let you stump me!!! I refuse to let Lutterloh get the better of me. Long story short, I drafted my first Lutterloh pattern several several weeks ago, but the pattern turned out sort of funky so I just put it away. So much for the golden rule!!! I think that women's clothing sizes were very different in the 60's, which is probably why the pattern came out funky. I think that us Millenium girls have to make adjustments. Anyway, I decided to pull out the pattern that I made and see what I could do to make it work. Actually it has been haunting me for a while. Fortunately, I have been learning a lot about tissue fitting, so I decided to use that method to salvage the pattern. Based on the tissue fitting I added 1.5 inches to the hip area and decided to add darts to the back of the dress. I think that I have made all of the alterations needed on the pattern, so I will be cutting it out this week. However, I plan to add 1 inch side seams for a little extra insurance. No matter what I plan to end up with a wearable garment!!!!
Monday, January 28, 2008
Oh Lutterloh
This weekend I decided to see if the "golden rule" really works. So I took a stab at one of my seemingly simple Lutterloh patterns circa late 1960's. 
According to the golden rule, you only need your bust and hip measurements in centimeters to draft a pattern from the models included in their pattern book and this can all be done in less than one hour. Yet, eventhough I followed the directions explicitly and even watched the video again, I still had a bit of trouble. Now it may be that I was nursing an adult beverage during the process, but I don't think so. I even pulled out some of my pattern construction books for reference, because for unknown reasons the pattern did not trace out perfectly like the model.
According to the golden rule, you only need your bust and hip measurements in centimeters to draft a pattern from the models included in their pattern book and this can all be done in less than one hour. Yet, eventhough I followed the directions explicitly and even watched the video again, I still had a bit of trouble. Now it may be that I was nursing an adult beverage during the process, but I don't think so. I even pulled out some of my pattern construction books for reference, because for unknown reasons the pattern did not trace out perfectly like the model.In any case, I had to make some adjustments to the pattern, mainly to the bodice. My next step is to make a muslin of this pattern before I cut it out really. I think that I am going to use a black linen for my actual garment fabric and detail it with some heavy white topstitching.
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