I’m still on working on slopers. I couldn’t get together with my friend this week, so decided I had some time earlier in the week to do some work. I decided to revisit the Craftsy course by Susy Furrer.

I retook all my measurements, and plotted them out on the graph paper, and the front came together quite well.  Here’s a stock photo from the class of the back. I did the back three times and it’s still not coming together correctly.

I have no idea just where I’m off, or if there’s an issue in the video, but it’s not working.

There is zero desire to go through the video a fourth time just to see if I can get a different result – something is not right there.

So… 

Suzy’s book Building Patterns The Architecture of Clothing had been available on her website a few years ago in PDF form. Thankfully I bought it then. So next I’m going to try that to see if I can find where I went off on my back bodice by following the book.

I can’t find that ebook now to link for you, but I did see it on Scribd.

Another interesting option I’ve come across this week is from Catherine Sews on Youtube. She lists a free sloper resource which I may try. If I can’t get my back sloper to work using Suzy’s book, this will be my next option.

The free resource Catherine references is Blue Hours Atelier. They offer free one-size bodice sloper patterns. They also offer a multi-sized bodice sloper in their shop on Etsy. I’ll keep you posted on how my sloper project is coming along.

Happy creating!