On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Saragrace Knauf wrote: > I started with a softly stuffed tube which gave a reasonable > silhouette, but I'd like to hear what you have been successful with. > > Robin? I know you have done this - but didn't see any construction > details in your posts.
Odd, I thought I had that in there -- I remember talking about it on-list, but I don't see it in the posts I collected on my website. It may have been in later postings after I put together the collection. I tried a cylindrical tube, but it didn't work for the size I needed; it wouldn't bend well enough without too much creasing/bunching on the inner curve. I also wanted it to be narrower and tapered in the front, and much larger at the sides and back. So I tried two crescents, a top and bottom one, with the bottom one larger for more depth and the top one smaller for less roundness and a slightly flatter surface. (Think of a bagel with a vertical cut at center front, slice the whole thing in half to make two rounds, and then curve off some of the outer edge as you approach the center front. Two crescents.) That worked but not as well as the next iteration, in which I used roughly trapezoidal wedges to produce the two crescents. (Think orange sections with the tips cut off, and an "equator" line dividing the top and bottom.) That not only allowed me to do some shaping along the sides of the trapezoids, smoothing out the curves to create the correct shape, but also to cut the entire thing out of a fraction of the fabric that I needed for cutting full crescent shapes. It was very easy to tweak the fit, too, because I had a lot of seam lines for adjustment. In our case, the outer-edge seam line made a good place to attach a casing for bents to create a stiffer rim, but this isn't evident in all the images, and doesn't appear necessary for yours. You also probably don't want much flattening of the top surface, so you might cut your top and bottom halves the same proportions. But you'll still want to taper almost to nothing in the front. Here's a thread where I talked a little about some visual documentation for the seaming: http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Fashion/index.cgi?l=hcos03&s=bum%20roll&Cmd=Match+1 See postings of March 16 and following. If you call up the entire month as a text file: http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/~fashion/archives/hcos03/hcos03.cl ...you can find continuing discussion by searching on "bum roll". If my description above doesn't cover the issue you were aiming at, please tell me. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
