Comments on: What is a Block?

By: Leather pattern making and sewing class

Leather pattern making and sewing class — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:27:51 +0000

[...] posting last week. The first day, their job was to copy this corrected version to use as their block pattern. The lessons for the day were learning to mark, measure and cut. Mastery of these three things [...]

By: Timo Rissanen

Timo Rissanen — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:51:34 +0000

Sigh.

I actually quoted this post today, to ‘But we need to teach skills’, or similar. On an unrelated note, my personal belief is that advising someone to set in a sleeve with a one inch seam allowance is not teaching the student a skill; I see it as a form of torture.

By: Whitni

Whitni — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:42:09 +0000

This is really great info – just learning about blocks and their usefulness in creating a consistent fit within a line. Thank you Kathleen for sharing your wisdom. We are all the better for it!

By: Sonia

Sonia — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:29:23 +0000

An overwhelmed THANK YOU to you Kathleen!

The Universe has smiled on me today as I stumbled upon your blog. All the pattern info here will be tremendously helpfull in my building a good patterns base.

I’m starting again making collections after a bitter false start, where I fell into lots of traps beginner DEs can fall into. One of them was me, completely overwhelmed with my pattern base, so much so I want to throw the whole thing in the trash… I cannot find what I need sometimes, and that shouldn’t be, of course.

I’ll start fresh. Yes, throwing stuff out, but keeping what worked… using a great PN number so it’s never lost again.

By: laurra

laurra — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:46:43 +0000

very interesting post , thank you

Happy Thanksgiving to all laurra

By: jocole

jocole — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:30:29 +0000

i love that series, i have it printed out and taped into my sketchbook. kathleen you are amazing. i love that you are showing us DEs how to do it in real life, as we NEVER learned anything close to the info you provide in school. i love my blocks, and using the system you outlined here on your website (and in your book) on pns and style #s. thank you thank you thank you

By: Tracey Valliere-Evans

Tracey Valliere-Evans — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:02:32 +0000

Cannot believe I got this in my e-mail box, as I have only just been speaking to Hanni about this in the Studio (our invaluable member of the team who is learning pattern-cutting)! I have printed off for her to read….although I am not sure if terminology is different in the UK??

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