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Got so tired of sketching the same sleeve over and over.
Was working on a bomber jacket design and kept messing up the raglan sleeve pattern. My instructor at the community college in Springfield told me to try a 1:2 scale paper mockup first. Cut it out of cheap muslin, pinned it on my dress form, and the fit was perfect in under an hour. Anyone have a better fabric for quick toiles than basic muslin?
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patricia16726d ago
Honestly, that whole process of making a quick mockup first is such a good life rule. I see it all the time with staging a house, people try to place their real furniture and it's a mess for weeks. But if you just use some old boxes and sheets to map out the room first, you save so much headache. It's like you figured out the dress pattern before cutting the good fabric. For cheap fabric, I've heard old bedsheets from a thrift store work even better than muslin because they drape more like real clothes.
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mia_park26d ago
Okay but is it really that big of a deal? Like, moving a couch twice is not a life crisis. Sometimes you just gotta live in the mess for a day. I feel like we're overthinking basic stuff. Not every sewing project needs a muslin, sometimes you just cut the dang fabric and fix it as you go.
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the_robin11d ago
Yeah, and it's not just sewing or moving furniture. I see it with cooking too, where someone will try a brand new recipe for a dinner party without testing it first. The mockup idea is basically just a low-stakes practice run, and skipping it because it feels like extra work is how you end up eating burnt, salty food at 9 PM.
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