Comments on: Pop Quiz #473

By: Julia Crow

Julia Crow — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:41:07 +0000

Could it be that there is a huge bust curve on front but side front has very little? I can see the notch & armhole problems when looking but that bust curve really jumped out to me.

By: Melinda

Melinda — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:30:59 +0000

yep, the notches. hard to know which match.

By: Keasha Schultz

Keasha Schultz — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:35:43 +0000

The notches are incorrect because they do not specify the front from the back. The grainline is missing from the front or back side top panel, there is no labeling on these patterns. Hope I am somewhere close

By: LisaB

LisaB — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:37:56 +0000

Before reading any of the comments, the answer I came up with was the lack of offset notching.

After reading the comments, I see lots of other stuff that many of you have pointed out, including the missing grainline. How could I have not noticed that? I’m hoping Kerryn is right that it was part of what Kathleen removed; otherwise…yikes!

By: Kerryn

Kerryn — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:26:19 +0000

Donna: I think the grain line is missing from that piece because Kathleen has removed identifying information from the pattern. Also – CAD patterns usually don’t have grain lines that run through the whole piece (not to say this is a good thing).

The seam runs look a little strange but I couldn’t be sure at that scale. My biggest concern would be the notching – which a lot of you have already pointed out. If it’s important for the pieces to look so similar the notching should be staggered.

I’m not sure if it’s convention here in the US but I was taught to do double notches for back pieces and single for the fronts as well as staggering.

By: dosfashionistas

dosfashionistas — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:25:51 +0000

First, the notches are so much the same on all pieces that a seamstress with nothing else to guide her could sew the side front to center back and vice versa very easily, and any of the lower pieces could be confused with any of the others.

Secondly, the neck has a strange shape for a tailored garment. Both the front and back neck need to have a bit more curve to fit around the neck comfortably. The back neck seam is not even meeting the shoulder at a right angle, and it should.

My third observation is that several of the seams that should be right angle intersections are not. I was taught that all seam intersections, with rare exceptions, should be right angles.

Fourth, and this is obvious, one grain line is missing and the others should be centered or, in the case of the center front piece, be placed on the center front line. Or the center front should be marked in some other way, and it is not marked by either line or notches. I would have done both.

Fifth is that The front and back do not look to be balanced. The back is no longer in the shoulder than the front, or it doesn’t look to be. In fact, the back armhole is shorter than the front, and that will be a disaster if there is a sleeve. And if it is a woman’s pattern, it has a very strange shape with no bust room. Which leads to Sixth, that the armholes are strangely shaped, and not in a way that is anatomically correct. I didn’t catch the waistline shaping that some of the others cited, but I concur with it. I can’t tell for sure without manipulating the pattern, but it looks like something is funny.

There are pattern pieces missing, but I assume that isn’t the question.

Now you are probably going to tell me that it is something totally obvious that I missed entirely.

Do you suppose a $75 patternmaker just threw something up there he knew wasn’t right just to have a pattern pictured on his web site? I’d like to think there was some explanation. This has me almost tempted to come out of retirement.

Sarah@dosfashionistas

By: kaaren hoback

kaaren hoback — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:13:19 +0000

Nothing is labeled.No pattern number, no cut directions, so sizing instructions – nothing at all to define the patetrn. What is it? – a dress,or a jacket with long peplum as one poster says. Grain lines are a problem, as are notches, the waist seams roller coaster, armholes are whacky. I would never get that far I would reject this for lack of labeling.
Kaaren

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:03:22 +0000

Notches, the skirt notches are all in the center, so you don’t know which pieces go together. The bodice pieces the notches are equidistant from top and bottom, again which doesn’t tell you which pieces go together and also makes it so you can sew piece “A” to piece “B” with one of those pieces upside down.

That is what struck me first.

By: jessika

jessika — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:48:34 +0000

The waistlines curve downward on the bodice which is odd.

By: Donna Sebastian

Donna Sebastian — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:46:01 +0000

There is no grain line on side back. Don’t any of you sew? She said it was obvious.