Hi, I am a HS fashion design teacher and I am using your tutorials to help give my students a visual and short lesson about flat pattern designing. Thanks!!
Chris, I must say that out of ALL the videos I've watched on dart manipulation, yours is THE MOST explicit. You explain and really SHOW what has to be done. You also go into detail to address the finer points that are invisible but matter. Everyone has these fancy videos but they still don't get the job done: but you do! Keep it up!
Natalie Isaac Thank you very much! I appreciate you noticing my going into the why's of patternmaking. Those are the things that you don't really learn until you've been working with these principles for a minute and unless you really ask yourself these questions and are determined to find out. There are a lot of things that would make more sense if we as patternmakers understood the functional reason behind them. Thanks for watching! :)
Hi Chris, I came across this lesson while studying fashion design and garments but it is only your videos that really made darts clear to me now. I am into school uniform business where we make simple shapeless uniforms for kids as I feared venturing into more complicated patterns. But now I know this will not take long before I get to get the hang of doing this. Thanks a lot for sharing ...Take care and GOD Bless
thanks! Yeah, pattern making isn't as hard as it seems. Once you get the basics like dart manipulation, ease, and grainlines most of the rest is trial and error.
Yes Chris...you certainly have a flair for teaching. When I was doing the course at TAFE if you didn't understand the concept you were lost with the teacher I had - there are some people who are born teachers and you are one of them.
hello m very thankful to u for videos of manipulations.i hv studied it bfor 10years..and now i hv to work on it.wen i studied manipulation i was a teenagr n realy i was not serious abt garment industry..bt now m working as a faculty n i hv to teach all dis.these videos are very useful for.. thanks a lott..keep ur work lyk dis...
I'm new to pattern making like not even born new... but you made this quite easy to understand! I mocked up a nodice sloper and wasn't that fun lol :) Thanks tor the video!!
Ruth Leonard if you're not following anything that tells you how to create your dart, the best way is to put it on a dress form and to fold in a princess seam dart. That will give you the start you need.
Thanks for sharing! This is a good video. Richpeace CAD software is a good helper for making patterns, and it is very convenient to use it to make patterns.
Hi Chris, I noticed that you didn't draw your french dart up to the bust point. I was under the impression that I had to draw my new dart location all the way to the bust point. Why didn't you draw it all the way and is it only the french dart that doesn't have to go to the bust or can I randomly draw any length for any new dart location?
Hi Mirella! Good question. The rule of thumb is that you don't draw your darts all the way to the bust point so your darts don't make the breasts appear pointy. The larger the dart intake is, the more you want to move the point away from the actual bust point. For instance, when you just have one bust dart for each bust, the darts end up being pretty large. So you draft your dart point 1 inch away from your bust point and you sew it about a half inch past the drafted point making the finished sewn dart a half inch away from the actual bust point. Smaller darts (usually achieved when you've split one dart into multiple darts) can be drafted fairly close to the actual bust point, maybe with the drafted dart point up to about a half inch away from the actual bust point. In this situation you'll sew the dart about a quarter inch past the drafted point still trying to avoid the actual bust point and making the breasts appear pointy. I hope that helps!
also, looking back at the picture on the screen, because of how small the bodice is that I'm using, my pen probably had trouble going all the way in the crack of the dart to trace it completely. But, when you're on a life size pattern, the method I described above applies.
That's helps! Also, one last question that I have been breaking my head over. I'm making two radiation darts from my neck line. One being shorter than the other. One dart (closer to the center FT) will sew an inch away from my bust, but I want the other dart to run parallel and not to wards the bust point. So what I did was, I drew my dart to the length I wanted. I then drew and angled line to the bust point, that way I'm still pivoting from the bust, but I get a boob shape!!! I can't avoid that can I? How would you go about this problem?
I watch you're whole series on darts hoping you would have a similar example :( I can't find anything online. I just need to know if i did it correctly and that's the result I will always get or if I did that wrong? I folded to close that dart right at the break point. I hope that's what I was supposed to do.
Mirella Coria-Zepeda Hey there! Okie dokie so i read through my description again and I sat and thought about it after reading your omment... First of all my explanation is backwards :( Actually when your dart is bigger (meaning the intake is large), you should actually make a longer dart to get rid of the pointy-ness. Why? because the angle of the tip of the dart is smaller resulting in a dart that smoothly disappears back into plain fabric. Meaning... bigger intake equals bigger dart, so to offset the dart looking awkward, you actually make the tip closer to the bust point. When the dart is smaller, it can (and usually should) be shorter since you don't need as much space to dwindle down to nothing since the dart is already small to begin with. Sorry I wrote the wrong thing the first time :( I misplaced the knowledge in my head :( lol Read on for next explanation....
Hi! You can't necessarily get rid of one... You have to change it or hide it. Turn it into a pleat(s), change it to gathers or make it part of a seam. That's all you can do or else you'll lose the fit
Suramichael Brown Hi there! you can use just one dart by default and it will take the excess room out of the garment. And you only make t big enough to take out the room you need to make the garment fit. Try that and see if it helps!
why when i move a dart the new dart is not the same width? for example I moved the shoulder dart to the bust, and tried every method. pivoting and slashing the paper. no matter what it went from 4cm width to 2.5cm. I dont get it. is it supposed to be like this? Am I not measuring it correctly?
Suramichael Brown well, think of the dart as an angle because that's what it is. as long as the amount of degrees within the angle is the same, you've successfully moved the dart. Also think of the dart legs as the radius of a circle. The radius will change depending on how wide the circle is, but the degrees within the angle won't change.
Suramichael Brown well, think of the dart as an angle because that's what it is. as long as the amount of degrees within the angle is the same, you've successfully moved the dart. Also think of the dart legs as the radius of a circle. The radius will change depending on how wide the circle is, but the degrees within the angle won't change. as long as you closed the previous dart completely, the new dart should be wide enough.
Chris White thank you for fast response! so basically if I measure the width and it changed a little, then its ok? Hope other ppl dont make the same mistake spending hours trying to figure out what they did wrong, when its not wrong. lol
hi chris thanks for this video this is very useful to me especially that i'm a beginner to patternmaking but what confuses me a lot about darts is that since there are a lot of dart placements i wonder whats the purpose of every placements, does every darts has something to do with the fitting or improvement of fitting to every size of the body? and which dart should i use to every size of the body or is just about the style?...thanks chris...i hope to hear from you soon...:)
Im not sure but I think it's more about style as to placement. If tge dart is needed somewhere then your likely to put ut there and adjust the rest of the pattern to suit your design - thats jow it mskes sense in my mind. *shrugs*
Hi Chris! I wonder how if using pivoting technique can I increase the room available for the darts (supposing I need them to be wider). Is the amount of room available for the other darts determined by the wide of the initial waist dart? By the way, thank you very much for sharing! (does the free e-book is still on your website?) Greetings from Colombia. :)
Hey There! I included your question in the Ask Chris Tuesday #10 Video! I wasn't very sure what you meant exactly so I answered how I thought you might be saying :) Thanks for commenting!
Hi, I am a HS fashion design teacher and I am using your tutorials to help give my students a visual and short lesson about flat pattern designing. Thanks!!
just wanted to show my appreciation for this series. you're a great teacher.
Chris, I must say that out of ALL the videos I've watched on dart manipulation, yours is THE MOST explicit. You explain and really SHOW what has to be done. You also go into detail to address the finer points that are invisible but matter. Everyone has these fancy videos but they still don't get the job done: but you do! Keep it up!
Natalie Isaac Thank you very much! I appreciate you noticing my going into the why's of patternmaking. Those are the things that you don't really learn until you've been working with these principles for a minute and unless you really ask yourself these questions and are determined to find out. There are a lot of things that would make more sense if we as patternmakers understood the functional reason behind them. Thanks for watching! :)
Wow...and you have the personal touch! Impressive!
I've watched and read several dart manipulation tutorials and none of them made any damn sense, until you. Thank you, you're doing god's work.
luxelinda Thanks!!
Soooo glad I found your channel!! Can’t wait to start watching. I’m a beginner/intermediate sewer.. thank you!
Hi Chris, I came across this lesson while studying fashion design and garments but it is only your videos that really made darts clear to me now. I am into school uniform business where we make simple shapeless uniforms for kids as I feared venturing into more complicated patterns. But now I know this will not take long before I get to get the hang of doing this. Thanks a lot for sharing ...Take care and GOD Bless
thanks! Yeah, pattern making isn't as hard as it seems. Once you get the basics like dart manipulation, ease, and grainlines most of the rest is trial and error.
Thanks for your videos ! I am learning pattern making on my own and it's good to find videos like your explaining how it goes ! Thank you again !!
Thanks Chris for this wonderful tutorial on Dart manipulation. You make it so easy to follow.
Yes Chris...you certainly have a flair for teaching. When I was doing the course at TAFE if you didn't understand the concept you were lost with the teacher I had - there are some people who are born teachers and you are one of them.
R Simpson Thank You SOOO MUCH!! That is a great compliment!!
hello m very thankful to u for videos of manipulations.i hv studied it bfor 10years..and now i hv to work on it.wen i studied manipulation i was a teenagr n realy i was not serious abt garment industry..bt now m working as a faculty n i hv to teach all dis.these videos are very useful for.. thanks a lott..keep ur work lyk dis...
Love your videos! I am learning so very much thank you from England x x x
thanks for taking the time to say that! I have so much more coming soon! Like today and within the next week! Stay Tuned :)
You managed to teach me more than My teacher did. :)) amazing
Plz make video about pattern block sloper
ur tutorial is wonderful☺ amazing mentor u r 😊 love frm India
Thanks for the tutorials. Can you show how to drape and cowl neck. placing or creating cowl.
I'm new to pattern making like not even born new... but you made this quite easy to understand!
I mocked up a nodice sloper and wasn't that fun lol :)
Thanks tor the video!!
This is so helpful. Thank you!!!
Easy method
Chris could you show us the procedure of adding darts to a dartless bodice please?
Do you have a video on how to true a bodice? It's urgent I have a project due and idk how to true the bodice sloper! Please help
thanks for this video..... big help for our assignment in Fashion design....
hello , please urgent. can you show me how you manipulate darts for a princess shirt?
how do you join the outside lines now that they are distorted? and not in line?
thank you so much, Helps a lot with my fashion assignment
yes i have a facebook, it's on my channel page
Can you please do a tutorial on How to grade by pattern shifting. I really want to learn that.
Thank you soo much for posting this!
+Kimcheegirlee Hi! You're very welcome!
so when you are making more darts you can only make 2 more darts from one at a time?
Say I was making a bodice pattern and I want to add darts to the pattern how do I know what size the dart should be?
Ruth Leonard if you're not following anything that tells you how to create your dart, the best way is to put it on a dress form and to fold in a princess seam dart. That will give you the start you need.
Thanks for sharing! This is a good video. Richpeace CAD software is a good helper for making patterns, and it is very convenient to use it to make patterns.
hi... where i get pattern for clothes
Thanks a lot it was really helpful love you
Gracias: es muy claro y me gusto ver el movimiento de pinzas
Wonderful. Thanks
Hi Chris, I noticed that you didn't draw your french dart up to the bust point. I was under the impression that I had to draw my new dart location all the way to the bust point. Why didn't you draw it all the way and is it only the french dart that doesn't have to go to the bust or can I randomly draw any length for any new dart location?
Hi Mirella! Good question. The rule of thumb is that you don't draw your darts all the way to the bust point so your darts don't make the breasts appear pointy. The larger the dart intake is, the more you want to move the point away from the actual bust point. For instance, when you just have one bust dart for each bust, the darts end up being pretty large. So you draft your dart point 1 inch away from your bust point and you sew it about a half inch past the drafted point making the finished sewn dart a half inch away from the actual bust point. Smaller darts (usually achieved when you've split one dart into multiple darts) can be drafted fairly close to the actual bust point, maybe with the drafted dart point up to about a half inch away from the actual bust point. In this situation you'll sew the dart about a quarter inch past the drafted point still trying to avoid the actual bust point and making the breasts appear pointy. I hope that helps!
also, looking back at the picture on the screen, because of how small the bodice is that I'm using, my pen probably had trouble going all the way in the crack of the dart to trace it completely. But, when you're on a life size pattern, the method I described above applies.
That's helps! Also, one last question that I have been breaking my head over. I'm making two radiation darts from my neck line. One being shorter than the other. One dart (closer to the center FT) will sew an inch away from my bust, but I want the other dart to run parallel and not to wards the bust point. So what I did was, I drew my dart to the length I wanted. I then drew and angled line to the bust point, that way I'm still pivoting from the bust, but I get a boob shape!!! I can't avoid that can I? How would you go about this problem?
I watch you're whole series on darts hoping you would have a similar example :( I can't find anything online. I just need to know if i did it correctly and that's the result I will always get or if I did that wrong? I folded to close that dart right at the break point. I hope that's what I was supposed to do.
Mirella Coria-Zepeda Hey there! Okie dokie so i read through my description again and I sat and thought about it after reading your omment... First of all my explanation is backwards :( Actually when your dart is bigger (meaning the intake is large), you should actually make a longer dart to get rid of the pointy-ness. Why? because the angle of the tip of the dart is smaller resulting in a dart that smoothly disappears back into plain fabric. Meaning... bigger intake equals bigger dart, so to offset the dart looking awkward, you actually make the tip closer to the bust point. When the dart is smaller, it can (and usually should) be shorter since you don't need as much space to dwindle down to nothing since the dart is already small to begin with. Sorry I wrote the wrong thing the first time :( I misplaced the knowledge in my head :( lol Read on for next explanation....
Thank you chris , that was very helpful =))
Hi chris how can i eliminate a dart? i dont was one at all
Hi! You can't necessarily get rid of one... You have to change it or hide it. Turn it into a pleat(s), change it to gathers or make it part of a seam. That's all you can do or else you'll lose the fit
How do you know how many darts to put before trying the garment on? Also how big?
Suramichael Brown Hi there! you can use just one dart by default and it will take the excess room out of the garment. And you only make t big enough to take out the room you need to make the garment fit. Try that and see if it helps!
Totally helpful!
truly thank you!
Thank you!
why when i move a dart the new dart is not the same width? for example I moved the shoulder dart to the bust, and tried every method. pivoting and slashing the paper. no matter what it went from 4cm width to 2.5cm. I dont get it. is it supposed to be like this? Am I not measuring it correctly?
Suramichael Brown well, think of the dart as an angle because that's what it is. as long as the amount of degrees within the angle is the same, you've successfully moved the dart.
Also think of the dart legs as the radius of a circle. The radius will change depending on how wide the circle is, but the degrees within the angle won't change.
Suramichael Brown well, think of the dart as an angle because that's what it is. as long as the amount of degrees within the angle is the same, you've successfully moved the dart.
Also think of the dart legs as the radius of a circle. The radius will change depending on how wide the circle is, but the degrees within the angle won't change.
as long as you closed the previous dart completely, the new dart should be wide enough.
Chris White thank you for fast response! so basically if I measure the width and it changed a little, then its ok? Hope other ppl dont make the same mistake spending hours trying to figure out what they did wrong, when its not wrong. lol
Suramichael Brown &
Please tel me prinses dart with bust maserment
hi chris thanks for this video this is very useful to me especially that i'm a beginner to patternmaking but what confuses me a lot about darts is that since there are a lot of dart placements i wonder whats the purpose of every placements, does every darts has something to do with the fitting or improvement of fitting to every size of the body? and which dart should i use to every size of the body or is just about the style?...thanks chris...i hope to hear from you soon...:)
Im not sure but I think it's more about style as to placement.
If tge dart is needed somewhere then your likely to put ut there and adjust the rest of the pattern to suit your design - thats jow it mskes sense in my mind.
*shrugs*
Thank you so much Allie G, you are such a big help
Would somebody ( anybody) please explain WHY we should move a dart?
Hi Chris!
I wonder how if using pivoting technique can I increase the room available for the darts (supposing I need them to be wider).
Is the amount of room available for the other darts determined by the wide of the initial waist dart?
By the way, thank you very much for sharing!
(does the free e-book is still on your website?)
Greetings from Colombia. :)
rlly helps to meee
Thanks sir
Do u have a twitter? Or fb subscription? I've been tellin my friend costudents abt ur detailed infor
thanks
Hey There! I included your question in the Ask Chris Tuesday #10 Video! I wasn't very sure what you meant exactly so I answered how I thought you might be saying :) Thanks for commenting!
holaa podrían poner en español
Exato!
That's awesome! Let me know if they have some easy questions that I could make a video for :)
God bless your videos. :-)
Wondetful. Hilarious. Thank you!
***** You're welcome!
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Hi there! I sell a Dart Series tutorial where I teach how to create a cowl neck using your pattern.
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Why in God's name did they bring darts back? One of my friends said it best. They are like pointers, lol!