About waist dart in making a skirt.

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Wed, 06/13/2012 - 19:50
lightprince4u
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Hellow Nahzat, how are you doing? I believe you are doing fine.

I have a problem with a skirt i am making, and the peoblem is with the dart of the skirt. The person i am making the skirt for has broad hip, tiny waist and a flat stomach. After my calculation, i got 4cm as my waist dart, which when i put it in the front, created a protruding point at the end point of the dart.

How do i eliminate this protrusion? Or it it possible to make the skirt without the front dart?

Secondly, i would like to know how to make a bodice fitted without makind a front dart because sometimes went the waist dart is large, the line from the waist to the bust line tends to converge instead of epanding.

Finally, in the online video lessons, we have styling pants for different body shapes, but there is no such for skirts. I would appretaite it if my observations are looked into.

Thanks.

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Mon, 06/18/2012 - 13:35
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Nehzat
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Re: Waist Dart Intake Issue

Dear lightprince4u,

When we are making a garment, we can have four waist darts on the front and four waist darts on back instead of two on each side. This way the intake is spread out more and lets the fabric lay flat against the body at the dart point.

If someone has a small waist compared to their hip circumference, we can have even more darts on the front and back.

For someone with a flat tummy we can reduce the intake of the front darts and add it to the side seams and back waist darts. This can also apply to someone with a flatter buttocks, by doing this to the back pattern instead of the front.

To make a fitted bodice we can not eliminate the waist dart, unless the person has a protruding tummy. To avoid the situation you mentioned, you can do a few things.

1 - Let out from the waist dart

2 - Increase the number of waist darts on the front (create another shorter dart between the    
     original one and the side seam)

We are also going to make video instructions on how to adjust the skirt block pattern for different body shapes. Thanks for your suggestion.

Happy sewing,

Nehzat

 

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