People are still contacting me about my patternmaking services even though I haven't refreshed my add since the first time I posted it. I do wish communication with people who contact me was consistent. Things happen though, one lady has had an unexpected tragedy in her family, this is usually a time consuming disaster in anyone's life, however, I think some people just starting out can get easily side tracked, like one fella I was talking to, that reminds me, I should email him again see what happened to him.
Never be afraid or put off emailing people, it's how to stay in touch. Don't always assume that people have changed their mind about you, it's just that there's so many things to do in work and life that if your services aren't needed "right now" than you may not hear from them in a while. However, this can put you at risk of being forgotten or shied away from. People will be like, "Gee, maybe she's forgotten about me and maybe I better contact someone else because she's probably gotten real busy, it's not like she's contacted me recently" You know what I mean?
So contact your contacts, hehehe, it won't hurt and they won't bite. I'm going to contact that guy right now... be right back.
Done. And they got back to me already too, so cool, you got to love clients who are that fast :) . So here it is, the fella I was talking about is just taking care of all the necessary prep work, he's got 3 shows coming up all in one month and one of my lady clients is going to send me a payment for some work I've done already.
Now for the Digital Patternmaking Process:
As I've done this several times already, I've worked out a step by step system for setting up and completing a digital pattern in the most efficient and time effective way, here it is:
1. pick out your sloper in the right size and type
2. don't get rid of anything in your pattern vector doc, you may need it for reference, alterations or even another pattern so keep everything and copy everything too
3. copy your sloper into the new garment pattern file making sure that front and back side seams have been aligned perfectly then separate a copy of them on a separate page (within the same vector file) but keep them on the same level (waist and bust lines are aligned across the page) this will help you keep your pattern drafting in correct orientation.
4. do your garment shells first
5. have a copy of all the necessary pattern markings you'll need ready on the outside of your pattern's vector page
6. group front and back pattern blocks then place them one on t0p the other with side seams matching
7. true up your pattern blocks and place your pattern markings
8. plan out your facings/interfacings
9. mark them accordingly
10. create your seams, plackets and hems
11. make as many copies of these front and back sandwiched blocks as other pattern pieces you'll be needing, for example if you need armscye, front and back facings, make a copy of the block 'sandwich' for each separate piece
12. ungroup the pattern block sandwiches and delete each unnecessary piece till you have each pattern piece you need from each group of front and back pattern block 'sandwiches'
13. group each new piece with their own separate pattern markings
14. arrange in order on the page, save again (do this often, make it almost like breathing)
15. export a copy as a jpeg and send it to your client and another one to yourself preferably in gmail should anything happen to your computer you'll still have your work in an email account that won't get rid of it
In my next blog post I hope to have a few pictures of my "lemon tulip lingerie" number as I'm almost done with the pattern. Just have to do those pretty little tulip sleeves. Slow going only because I've also been working on my clients projects. I'll have it completed before long though, no worries.
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