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Using a Bodice Sloper is an easy way to help you design beautiful tops, blouses, and dresses.
Creating garments from a commercial pattern or a sloper varies in many ways. Most commercial patterns are based on universal measurements. Our bodies are all different from one another, so sometimes we may need to do a lot of adjustments in order to make a commercial pattern fit.
A sloper, which is also called a block, is created with your own measurements or the measurements of your client. It does not have any seam allowances or design. In this series, I will show you how quick and easy it is to draft a basic sloper. All you need is a manilla pattern paper, a few types of rulers, measurements and a pencil.
Sloper Series
By using seven different slopers or blocks you can create a pattern for whatever type of garment that you want. The seven slopers are of course the, (1)Front and (2) Back Bodice, the (3) Front and (4) Back Skirt, the (5) Front and (6) Back Pants, as well as the (7) Sleeve. So with these seven slopers or blocks, you can create anything. But in this post, I am going to focus only on the Skirt Sloper. I will show you how to draft a skirt sloper the quick and easy way. This is going to be a series of posts. In the next one, I will add the next sloper, which will be the Front and Back Bodice in a few weeks.
