heather.cohen
Dash
Feb 4

Checking my Draft

Hi,


Rory asked me to post some pictures of my draft so he could check it.


I drafted to Chest 36 Waist 30 Scale 18 Height 72" 1 head unit 9".


Thanks









6 comments
Rory Duffy
Feb 4

Hi Heather, It’s as I expected. The pocket is too high. As I said already, I don’t do the thirds system. If you are unsure as to where to put the pocket, line it up with the bottom button. The dart suppression is too much, 3/4” is all you need. On the positive side, your runs look good, you seem to have followed the rest of the draft correctly. After you make the adjustments I have suggested, you will be in a much better position to make a nice coat. Please post and share more examples of your work as the project moves forward.

heather.cohen
Dash
Feb 5

Am I right in thinking that I only need to go back to the step where you start the hip pocket and then carry on from there to change the placement and the darts?

Benjamin
Dash
Feb 4Edited: Feb 4

I was also thinking that the breast and underarm dart look hugely over-suppressed, as Rory said. I think this is often a beginner's mistake, looking for a shapely cut with elegant waist suppression. Don't fall into this trap. If you over-suppress these two darts it will cause drags/folds in other areas of the garment.


I generally check the pocket depth as being around 8-9cm below the waist line. Those pockets do look too high.

heather.cohen
Dash
Feb 4

Hi,


Thank you! Yeah I was torn between putting it at the second button point or at the point which is half of the underarm to hem measurement as Rory describes. I realise now that it should stay at the second button point.


With my darts I think I must have misheard how much they were meant to be suppressed by.

heather.cohen
Dash
Feb 6

I've moved my pocket down now and redone the darts and suppression. I realised I was reading the draft to mean 3/4" suppression on either side of the dart not in total. That's why they came out over-suppressed.