Comments on: A cutter’s must

By: Fashion Incubator » Checking a pattern pt.1

Fashion Incubator » Checking a pattern pt.1 — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:04:33 +0000

[...] did judging from the results. Namely, I had a hard copy (oak tag) pattern, a sewn sample and a cutter’s must. The only information I didn’t get was seam allowance but I’ll qualify that by saying I [...]

By: Jill Homiak

Jill Homiak — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:30:04 +0000

I see. So the pattern & pattern card go on to the cutting station/person. The patternmaker makes the pattern card though, correct? But the designer makes sure its given to the cutting station?

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:42:11 +0000

Good question Jill, thank you.

By “you”, I mean the person who is ultimately responsible -the designer- should see to it that the cutters have a cutter’s must, it’s part of the package of stuff you give them to produce an order.

The cutter’s must (or pattern card) should be provided by whomever makes the pattern. It is not a complete pattern, the job is not done, without it.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:27:34 +0000

It says: Regardless of whether you’re using direction cards (and I suggest you do), you must provide a cutter’s must to the cutting department or a contractor on an ordinary sheet of paper.

Is *you* referring to the pattern maker or the designer?

By: Fashion-Incubator

Fashion-Incubator — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:38:24 +0000

A question of line size

A reader asks (I forgot to ask if she wanted to be anonymous so I’m erring on the side of caution): In your book when you talk about line size, you mentioned that if you were doing purses you would…

By: Evolving Excellence

Evolving Excellence — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:07:18 +0000

Carnival of Lean Leadership #4

Welcome to the fourth Carnival of Lean Leadership. There’s a lot of material to cover this time, so we’ll get right to it… The highlight of the past week has been the blogfest on project kaizen by The Gang of

By: Fashion-Incubator

Fashion-Incubator — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:42:21 +0000

PN numbers

This post is about PN numbers -another layer of complexity in pattern room management and I hope I can explain this well. PN stands for Pattern Number so when we say PN numbers -and we usually do- we’re being redundant….

By: Fashion-Incubator

Fashion-Incubator — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:37:15 +0000

A cutter’s must pt 2

In the first post of this series, I defined a cutter’s must, explained its utility and had posted a very basic cutter’s must for style 21117 so go back and review that posting if you have no idea what I’m…

By: Fashion-Incubator

Fashion-Incubator — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:16:49 +0000

Project Kaizen: Tuesday

Today’s entry is making improvements for sub-team members performing the same type of work. In other words, I’ll be writing about troubleshooting in the pattern department. One of the clearest example of this is when I worked for an American…

By: Mark Graban

Mark Graban — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:23:49 +0000

That looks like “standard work”, as we’d call it in the lean world!