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blog:FreeSewing 4.2 adds four new designs: the Devon and Jett jackets, and the Sarah and Sunny skirts

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FreeSewing v4.2 is out, and it brings four new designs: Devon is a denim jacket, Jett jacket is a bomber jacket, Sarah Skirt Block is a basic skirt block, and Sunny is an 18th century split side skirt.

Devon Denim Jacket​

Desinged by Wouter – his 14th FreeSewing design for those keeping count – Devon is denim jacket pattern. Obviously, you can make it in other fabrics too, when we say denim jacket here, it’s more about the style of the garment.

Wouter has the following to say about it:

I Designed Devon because I had a nice denim jacket that I wanted to make available to others.

Devon is based on the Bent body block. Being a jacket, it has a considerable amount of ease added.

The design is inspired by denim jackets my partner has, and some patterns I’ve seen. Most denim jackets do not have set in sleeves, but since this is based on Bent, it does. It makes top stitching the armscye a little more challenging.

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Jett (Bomber) Jacket​

Next up is Jett jacket, another jacket pattern in a timeless style, this time the so-called bomber jacket, or depending on the choice of fabrics and styles, it can also be a varsity aka letterman jacket.

Jett was designed and coded by Gawain CCBR, they had the following to say about it:

It’s highly recommended to take another jacket you like and compare the shoulder-to-shoulder and waist- to-armpit measurements against it before you start cutting.

This pattern is intended to fit the widest possible range of bodies, so it comes with a couple optional adjustments under the Fit options.

The bust dart/full bust adjustment is intended for people with breasts. There are two implementations available, one based on horizontal and vertical shifts, one based on rotations like a full bust adjustment for a paper pattern. The rotation-based one is better and you should probably use it.

The full belly adjustment operates under the assumption that the waist measurement is taken around the fullest part of your belly. If the fullest part of your belly is below the place you took the waist measurement, don’t worry about changing the rest of the vertical measurements to account for it - Jett makes the adjustment all the way down to the hem.

The full belly adjustment only takes effect if your waist measurement + the given waist ease is wider than the ease the pattern is already generating around your stomach. If you turn it on, but don’t see anything change, it’s because the pattern has enough ease that you don’t need the adjustment.

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Sarah Skirt block​

Sarah is a skirt block based on the Aldrich drafting method. It was contributed by tduehr, the first design by their hand, but not the last (not event the last of this blog post).

Here’s what they had to say about it:

Sarah is the natural waist skirt block from W. Aldrich’s Metric Pattern Cutting for Women’s Wear, 6th Edition.

Blocks like this are used as the basic shape of garment designs. This can be sewn as is for a pencil skirt. Though, there are more options available in the Penelope pencil skirt.

*This is the first pattern I drafted for myself in different software as part of a collective attempt to learn CAD pattern drafting at my local maker space. (it’s the first in the book… probably not a coincidence). Several of the dimensions being magic and the curves being what ever looks good frustrated me intensely because they wouldn’t scale and the software does not contain a constraint solver to make up for that.

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Sunny Skirt​

And finally (we’re going alphabetic here), we have a new skirt design named Sunny. This is a design that was discussed on our Discord server. The design is credited to halbmoki whereas tduehr wrote the code for it, in that casual I could, so I did fashion:

Sunny is an 18th century split side skirt. This came up in Discord and I thought it would be easy to code, so I did. This type of skirt was usually used as a petticoat. It can also be used as a skirt on its own. The side splits allow access for a pocket like Lucy.

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