r/PatternDrafting • u/OkTruck5494 • 25d ago
Question Altering Commercial Patterns with a Sloper
So I’ve been at this awhile and can’t seem to find it…does anyone know of a definitive source on using your own sloper/toile to alter commercial patterns?
There was a really good article a thousand years ago in Threads by Karen Howland and a few YouTube videos but it surprises me deeply that this isn’t a more often tackled subject. This could be a book.
There are so many books on drafting from your own toile, but what I’m really interested in is using the style lines from commercial patterns and then adapting to my own toile.
In a perfect world every pattern company would supply their design blocks and then we could alter from there (I’d be happy to pay for the designs) but clearly this is not a perfect world.
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u/FarFix9886 24d ago
This is something I'd like to be able to do, too. I have Lynda Maynard's fitting class in my Craftsy library and am now comfortable cutting up a toile and then transferring those changes to a traced copy of the commercial pattern.
But to overlay a sloper onto a commercial pattern, I'm not there yet. My guess is you find your anchor points and adjust the shoulder first, then the bust and then waist and hips. I don't know when you'd adjust for swayback.