Free glove patterns in the new Threads!
Aug. 28th, 2009 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labricoleuseSo, recall that the course i teach this semester is Decorative Arts--our first topic is gloves and glove-based structures.
FYI, past posts of note:
The students are starting to make their first straightforward pair of gloves, and by a stroke of luck and coincidence, there's a great article in this month's Threads magazine about glovemaking, with an excellent set of step-by-step photographs for making a pair of outseamed gloves.
(Outseaming is when you sew the gloves together with the seam allowances on the outside, as opposed to inseaming (SA's on the inside) or pique seaming (SA's overlapping to lie flat).)
Their website has some free augmentative materials--a stitch gallery and a gloves gallery--and scale patterns in three sizes as downloadable PDFs!
It's not a comprehensive article--there's not a lot of discussion about pattern manipulation for fit, nor coverage of the other types of seaming--but it's GREAT for seeing actual images of each step of glove construction, which is (IMO) a completely counterintuitive spatially-bizarre thing to wrap your head around.
In the same issue, there's also a cool article on recovering an umbrella frame with a new canopy. Again, not as comprehensive as, say, my parasol textbook--the article offers one method for creating the canopy pattern, as opposed to the three i discuss--but again, great photos and instructions.
Point being, it's a good issue for crafts artisans to pick up this month! (Or, anyone into gloves/parasols, really.)
FYI, past posts of note:
The students are starting to make their first straightforward pair of gloves, and by a stroke of luck and coincidence, there's a great article in this month's Threads magazine about glovemaking, with an excellent set of step-by-step photographs for making a pair of outseamed gloves.
(Outseaming is when you sew the gloves together with the seam allowances on the outside, as opposed to inseaming (SA's on the inside) or pique seaming (SA's overlapping to lie flat).)
Their website has some free augmentative materials--a stitch gallery and a gloves gallery--and scale patterns in three sizes as downloadable PDFs!
It's not a comprehensive article--there's not a lot of discussion about pattern manipulation for fit, nor coverage of the other types of seaming--but it's GREAT for seeing actual images of each step of glove construction, which is (IMO) a completely counterintuitive spatially-bizarre thing to wrap your head around.
In the same issue, there's also a cool article on recovering an umbrella frame with a new canopy. Again, not as comprehensive as, say, my parasol textbook--the article offers one method for creating the canopy pattern, as opposed to the three i discuss--but again, great photos and instructions.
Point being, it's a good issue for crafts artisans to pick up this month! (Or, anyone into gloves/parasols, really.)
