I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio.

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio where we share practical ideas for building a creative process so you can sew with intention and joy.

And Haley's out on maternity leave with her new baby, so I have a special guest

today. We have Robin, our professional pattern maker here, who's been pattern making with us

at seamwork for more than seven years. Prior to that, Robin worked in the ready-to-wear apparel industry

as a pattern maker with companies like Patagonia, Ugg, and Hannah Anderson. And today, she's here

to bust five common fitting myths. This is going to be a juicy

episode, huh, Robin? Absolutely. By the way, if you miss the last episode, Robin walked us through the

entire process of making a seamwork pattern. So be sure to go back and find that one if you haven't

listened to it already. All right, let's get into the myths. So I'm going to read the myths and then,

Robin, you're going to bust them, okay? Bust them wide open. All right. So the first myth is that having

your own sloper means that you won't have to ever make a muslin. Busting it. So this is not true.

A sloper is it's good for learning basic pattern drafting and understanding how the fabric goes from 2D flat to around a 3D body. However, a

sloper is very specific to that body. It's very close fitting. As soon as you start adding ease and

cutting in style lines, moving the shoulder, adding details, you change everything about the

sloper that made it fit the body so perfectly. The balance can get altered. And that's how it sits on you front to

back. You could develop wrinkles somewhere because the pieces aren't fitting together right. Or maybe

you went from the sloper to a princess seam and you didn't get the exact, you didn't rotate the dart

enough. So while it's really good for understanding the concepts and the principles,

as soon as you change the design, you lose all the information that you had with the sloper and have

to redo all that. Yeah. I think a lot of people think that if they have a sloper that's fitted to their

body, that's the end of fitting. And they can just either compare

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