Category Archives: Pattern Making

Other than measuring sleeve and armholes, pants were the most difficult garments to measure when I worked in tech design. Getting the rise to lie flat so that I could measure its length was not an easy job and because rise is a crucial POM (point of measure), I couldn’t slack off. The difference between  Continue Reading »

I stood in front of the mirror, scissors in one hand and tape in the other. Fitting one of the seven, eight, or nine bras (I lost count at five) I have made since last summer, I hacked it up until it lay smooth everywhere. When the bra fit correctly, I took it off and  Continue Reading »

I remember when I bought my dress form. For several years, my aunts and I would take a trip to New York City for a girl’s weekend. I have a crazy family, which accounts for my insanity, and when the ten or so of us Flanigan women were in the Big Apple, there was a lot of  Continue Reading »

I’ll admit when I am wrong and I was wrong. What was I wrong about? Grading undies. How did I find out I was wrong? One of my readers told me. Emailing back and forth, one of my readers asked if I could explain my post on grading undies because she didn’t understand. “I wrote  Continue Reading »