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Introduction to Sustainable Fashion and Sewing - Module 6 - Bodice and Dress Darts

teacher avatar Eva Dragoeva, Fashion Designer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:35

    • 2.

      Dart variations on bodices

      4:05

    • 3.

      Creating larger bust darts on the bodice

      9:50

    • 4.

      Working with multiple bust darts

      1:34

    • 5.

      Shaping the waist

      3:27

    • 6.

      Variations with waist darts

      3:34

    • 7.

      How to move darts around the bodice

      4:23

    • 8.

      Moving the waist dart to the bust dart

      3:13

    • 9.

      Moving the bust dart all around the bodice

      4:07

    • 10.

      How to draft a dress dart

      5:36

    • 11.

      How to sew a dress dart

      7:40

    • 12.

      Module 6 bonus video - how to use darts creatively

      1:54

    • 13.

      Final thoughts and suggestions

      1:19

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This is Module 6 of my beginner fashion and sewing course for sustainable fashion lovers. This is the last module from this course and it will focus on bodice and dress darts. You will learn how to get creative with and move bodice darts to achieve a good fit, how to construct a dress dart and and how to stitch it.

This is a technical module that's mostly paper based although there is a bit of sewing involved too.

To help you with the pattern cutting section of this module - you can download printable front and back templates for sample making here.

You can also download the evaluation sheet for stitching dress darts to reflect on your progress.

I hope you enjoy this module and that you have learnt a lot from this course. If you have - please review this course, so other fashion enthusiasts can easily find it. I look forward to seeing you soon!

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1. Introduction: Hey, welcome to module six. Congratulations, you have come so far. You have learned so much in the past five modules. And today we're going to wrap it up with yet another technique, yet more knowledge. And this time we're going to be working on the bodice. We're going to work with dads again, but we're going to work with both data and with addressed data. So without further ado, grab a cup bar and let's delve into it. 2. Dart variations on bodices: In the last module, we were working with dads along the waistline of trousers and skirts. This week, we are going to be working with bonuses. And you have a template attached with this module, front and back body this way, a small dot in this area. And want them dad too cold if the bus dad and it's there to do exactly the same as the data were working with last week, just on a different pace. So what it does is if you have too much looseness around an area around the bus and you want a more fitting design, then you want to paint that excess and create a dad to create three-dimensionality and a closer fit. And this is what we'll be doing today with the templates. We going to be exploring on what we can do with the bust dart, how we could shape viruses that are very loose fitting and create a more close fitting, more interesting and design. The first thing that we're going to do is to cut out our template front and the back. And the front, you should have just one data and it's a very narrow and that's on purpose. And on the back, you don't have any data because we'll be drawing that from scratch that later on. So go ahead and cut out your templates and we'll be doing a few different things just like last week. So you're welcome to print out just one copy of B. And then you could trace them a few times or you could print them a few times. If you were to fold the dad and the front, you will find that the front and the back are going to match along the shoulders. That's very important. If you remember from module four, when we did face things, we match the front of the bag and the shoulder because that's where we stitch. And in the same way, you will find that if your dad, your bus data, so region from bodies is not folded. The front shoulder seams wider than the back shoulder, but once you fold the data, they will match. We can have a data is quite narrow like on the bodies. Create a loose fit with a little bit of shaping on the bus area. Wherever you can make that data along bigger, depending on how 3-dimensional your body is, how voluptuous is. The more robust they have, the bigger damage you'd want around the bust area because they'll create a bigger curve in an area that has love loose fabric. Similarly, if you want a little bell-shaped, not too much, you could have a smaller data and narrower data. You don't have to have any data TO, if you want to have a very loose silhouette. As you can see, the shirt that I'm wearing today doesn't have any dance around here and it is very loose fitting, is up to you where they have a bigger diameter, smaller data, no data child, depending on the way if they want to achieve and on your body shape and what suits you. But it is good to know things that we're going to cover today because that will help to as creating a trusting designs. And sometimes dads can be used in a more decorative way, which we're going to explore in the bonus section of this module. So stick around. But for now, we're going to go over the basics. 3. Creating larger bust darts on the bodice: If you want to create a closer fit and what three-dimensionality, what you want to do is to make the DAT bigger. We already have a dad that's quite narrow. So what we can do is add a little bit on either side of the dads to create a bigger data. You want to do is add a marking on either side of the widest section of the data. So shoulder bear. And you could do half a centimeter away from the actual doubt on either side. You could do a centimeter depending on how big a dad wanted to create. This is just for playing. If it's on your own clothes, you want to pinch your fabric and see what fits you best and what works best. Deal in front of a mirror. But for now we're working on paper. Once you know how big you want that to be and you have marked that, you can go ahead and connect each marking to the tip of the data. As we mentioned last week, the narrowest point, the tip of the data on the body's template is as the bust point. And you probably won't find das, that our stitch all the way to the bust point if you went and had a look in the sharps. But when you are playing around with dots on the pattern, it's a good thing to do later, we're going to reduce the length. But for now, use the data that we have in place as a guideline. So go ahead and connect the tip of the data to the new markings that you have created, an either side data that should create a y. The data, if you are to the new lines of the new data. Together to close it on paper, you will find that there is a little step along the shoulder. And what you want to do with that is to unfold everything and then put some paint just sticks on paper and the back of the shoulder so it sticks out. And then you can hold the data along the new lines. And we've got step. You could gently draw or you could use a pattern master rule instead. If you don't want to do that by hand, you can draw a line that connects continuously the top step to the rest of the shoulder. So it's nice and smooth, a line that will get rid of the step. You want to cut out the excess of paper that you have and you should have a new shelf that has been drawn. Now, what you'll find is that you can close that new dads just temporarily. And then against the back shoulder that suddenly the back shoulders a little bit too big. And the reason is because we've taken that extra from the front whilst creating a why the dot that has taken extra fabric from further towards the center, front and towards the actual shoulder, that tip of the shoulder. So what we've done is, let's say you've taken half a centimeter on either side of the original data. That means that a whole centimeter extra has been pinched together. So a whole centimeter has been taken in from the shoulder. This is why you would in this case, have a whole centimeter difference between the front and the back shoulder. When the data is closed, what you need to do is to make sure that they both fit. So you could either, if you want to have really loose loose bag, which is an option, leave the bag as it is, and then add an extension of the shoulder and to centimeter or however much you've taken extra and then redraw the whole. With this, you need to be careful because you need to make sure that it's comfortable against the body. So if you were future working with a full body parts and then you need to have it against your body or the body of whoever you are doing this, make sure that the actual curve of D is following the natural curve of their body around your area. But you want to make sure that the front and the back shoulder always fit. Now, if you want the shoulder to also be CTs, just like we have added extra fit and three-dimensionality to the front, we could do is you could create a dad along the back shoulder and it's completely up to you where you place that data. The thing is that it would again depend on your own back, on the back of the eye creating that pattern. Because we have got natural curve along the back. So really, really depend on how, where those curves are for the patterns fit nicely. For now because you're working on it or template, you could go ahead and choose where you want to send that data. Created just like you created dad's last week, along the waistline, where you have a middle point of the dart, we choose for it to be. Then you can measure down a few centimeters because you don't want to have to bigger dots on the top shoulders are few centimeters is absolutely fine. Then measure. In our case, if we have taken whole centimeter, you want to have a centimeter the bag, so measure half a centimeter on either side of the midline, then connect the market. But you have created the bottom of the midline to create the tip of the data. Once you've done that, you could do the same thing that you did for the front. Adding paper behind the pattern on the job on the back shoulder and sticking paper on it and then folding the dad and redrawing, making sure that the shoulder line is nice and neat, continuous line and no steps. Charles, the excess of the extra paper. And then what you should have is if you had the front and the back. And then we can do is have the front and the back with a dat folded. Then EQ put them against each other. They shoot again, line up nicely because you would have taken out the same amount of material on the front and the back. Now, something to bear in mind if you have done this is that if you take too much from the front and the back, then that means the tip of the shoulder will move in a swell like we touched upon earlier. And you might still want to add a little bit extra if it's moved too much anymore, I want to add a little bit extra and we draw the front and the back. We can do that with a patterns right next to one another along the shoulders, placing them like we did in module four, we're creating pacing. So we have continuous arch in the back whilst shaping this part and linkages, move them away and cut-out. You'd need extra paper every time you add into a pattern. So just get that. And then blue masking tape ending on what to what, and this is how we make bigger dots. If we wish to, if we wanted to reduce the data too much take, then you do exactly the opposite of what we've just done and make the dads smaller, I need instead of adding material from the site potentially inside shoulder tips. You'd want to take off? Well, if you already have a dad, but you'd also want to make that narrower as well to match the front, depending on what you do, you can play around using the templates. You will find that the more I play around, the more ideas you come up with. So just have a go, just have a little play and see how the arm holds change, how the shoulder changes, and how much it can move, how Big Daddy could have, and how we use data can have. And you could even try to have a pattern without any dads to toe and see how that works. 4. Working with multiple bust darts: Of course, you can do a lot more with data on body. If we take another one of our bodies templates from bodies. And instead of adding to the dad where it is, we wanted to have that centimeter in a different place. You can do that and you still have that fit. To do this. Choose where you want your data to be along the shoulder and make a market. Then draw a line from that marking all the way to the bust point to add a dot. And let's take a centimeter off again, like we did here. And then connect those markings again was tip of the data. The bust point. And this would have created another adapt. But our total data lungs and the moment which we decided is that to centimeters just stated it would be in the same dot we have incorporated into separate dots. And the same would apply like we did before. You'd want the back to match the prompt and you could do it in a variety of ways that I explained earlier, where you can either add a little bit more to the shoulder or the front. You could totally up to you. 5. Shaping the waist: Shaping the waste happens in exactly the same way as we did last week. You trousers. Except we usually, that data should be little bit longer. We could do that by choosing where we want to have a data along the waste. And let's say we want a sanitary Turner hi, half of bodies, just like we did with the skirts, but we'll have three centimeters. Same with the borders. And so we work with have a bonus instead of a whole bodies. And we're going to have half of those three centimeters, in that case, 1.5 centimeters reduction. Because if you were to cut that bond is on the phone, then you would end up having present to meet and talk to a reduction. We've got the bust point on the patently. Have, you also have got a line? And that's the first line. The first thing we're going to do is I'm going to draw a line from the bust point down, straight down, so perpendicular to the hand. That would be the midpoint about waste. We are going to have that data a centimeter away. And to do that, we're going to mark half a centimeter on either side from the lung pump just created. Then we can connect those two markings I'll have created with the bust point, thus creating our waste data at a centimeter width. We can also take a little bit off from side to shape the waist. Let's take half a centimeter off from sightseeing. So we'll measure half a centimeter in from the side, the ham, and then connect that to DMO. And then you can cut that out if you wish to do so. When shaping the waste on broad is something that you want to bear in mind, is that you need to make the front, the center front a bit and ANCA as a standard that is a centimeter longer and then creating a slight curve all the way towards the side of the front, nice side. Now, because we're working with small scale, which is actually how to scale. You could go ahead and do this with half a centimeter measurements. So add extra paper to the hem of the patches, then the center by half centimeter down. And then from that point, just draw a gentle to meet the side of the pattern. And this is the correct way to create a shaping of the waste where you're slightly longer. Samples count, it would be a centimeter. Now appreciate that when you work beyond gloves, I won't be possible. You can't just grow extra fabric. But when you do pattern continues is the way to do it. And just, you know, just saying. 6. Variations with waist darts: Now, as we did last week, we can move the data around and we could incorporate our total data allowance or the waste into different dads. So in a way, we are going to be doing the same things, but this time the dads will be a little bit longer because they extend all the way to bus line. Now, we have got a one centimeter on actin and have sent me to take them off side. We can add it all insane dot. So we could add a little bit on either side of the doubt would create 2.5 millimeters on either side of that debt, then we'll end up having a 1.5 centimeters and dad and nothing taken off from site. Of course, if you have cutoff the side already, you want to use a new pattern. Because otherwise he would have taken too much and keep the side and make the dots bigger. You can also, let's take the bat, for example, have the same taken off from the back, but this time, instead of having a one dat and anything, take them from the side. You could have three little dots and five millimeters or centimeters reach. Again, you can choose where you want those dots to bait. You could draw lines connecting the bus line and the hand. Perpendicularly. You want the dads to be then because there'll be five millimeters or half a centimeter each in where you want to measure 2.5 millimeters on either side of each line and then connect to the mark. And they have created from those measurements to the other side of the midline to create the point of the data along the line. So we end up having is three little dots. But the waste measurement has not changed because you still taking off one of the half centimeter in total. You can play around and make them match. You could have designs that are not exactly the same on both sides. So it could be the trays, the pattern they have an have to France, one right and one left. And on the left you could have just one thing dot. And on the right you could have three little dots and they'll be asymmetrical design. It's about playing around, having fun. But most importantly, it is about understanding the basic. So you could play around. You can move waste as alone. So it doesn't have to be that your ways that is connected to the bust point, like one stat that I wanted to show you when we started, where an easy way to start creating the dad being technically move it along the waistline and keep it the same, just moving it further towards the site of further towards the center. Just snaking back to back. It's completely up to you, just like we did last week. 7. How to move darts around the bodice: Now we're going to do something more fun and exciting, and that is to move data around the body. So what we're going to do is we could actually move our waste data somewhere else that's not around the waist. And we can move our bust dart somewhere else, not around the bus where it is now. And we'd still have the same fate that we have a one star two. Before we start moving those dots. Let me explain. So grab another prompt. Bodies. Start with, let's have the bust dart and if you're way she can make them burst. That wider IS thing we're going to do is to move that around. We need to do to do this is you can choose where you want to move the dad. And as we're going to do an arm called dat instead of a bus. I'm going to mark where I want mine to be alone and then connect my marking with bust point. The next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to cut along that all the way to the bus. Once I've done that, I'm going to fold my dad sticking together. You can either use blue or masking tape up to you. Once you've done this, you'll see that that area that you have cut along the line created opening up. And because it's opened up, we can put a little behind it, then close it again just temporarily just hold it and then cut the excess paper. And when we open the bits and we fold it again, you'll see that a new dad has been created. You can use colored paper. So you could see this that I posted notes should do fine using that small bodies they have. And we've suddenly moved the data to data that's coming out from the uncle, believe it or not, will be the same. Even though this looks smaller. In reality, it takes out as much excess is just from a different place. Another thing you can do is move the bus dot somewhere else along the shoulders, exactly the same way. You can also move it from somewhere around the waistline. What would happen if we moved it to a very corner where the site team meets the waistline. Well, if I make a marking and that owner and then connect bust point to that marking, then cut along the line and close the bus stop. That partial open up. We could do the same as we did before. I'm paper behind it, gluing it from there, holding the open part. So it needs along that line again and then cutting the excess off on the side. And I'll hold the hand. And when we open the section again, we'll find is gone you that that new data, it's called special name when it's in that place is called fringe dot. It looks really nice on when applied. Here, you can see how it is different depending on how big the data in the beginning one. So if we started with the original data, That's the pattern. The new dad is the narrower. If we started with the data that we have made bigger to begin with, then the new fridge that when we vigor and they'll apply to all dads depending on where you want to move them. The ratio will be the same. 8. Moving the waist dart to the bust dart: Another thing you can do is actually move the ways that to us. As a starting point, you can prepare a pattern where you've got the original template that I've given you. And you have also drawn the ways that connects to the bus point. Then what you want to do is cut right in the middle of the bus all the way to the bust point. And once you've done that, you can fold the waste data together and that will automatically open the bus data. So if you close and hold the wastes that having the middle of the bus, the bus that will open along the possibly have cut. And that means that the data's not pick up. So all you need to do is to add, pay up the humming. And then as we did in the very beginning, fold, the new bus data falls, the bus data lines. And wherever you have a step along the shoulder, you want to redraw that. Now because technically technically you're not taking off any more from the shoulder because you haven't drawn extra outside of the data. You've inserted extra inside of the dot. Then you don't have to actually reshape anything on the whole. Because what's happened is if you actually found that what appears to be bigger dad now and then measure the front to the back bar is alone shoulder. What happened is that that's too much. And this is because we have kept our original data lines were just inserted the waste that inside the bus stop. So the waste will be more fitting it. But we wouldn't have taken extra fabric from this. So that's quite an interesting thing and it's a difficult thing to grasp because it almost makes no sense really. Because he taking, taking more fabric from here. But actually that fabric is being taken from the waist. You're ready. Again. You can't really do this using your own clothes. But something interestingly can do if you are creating your own patterns, which you might get into doing in order to redesign close later. And using the close just as fabric rather than as they are right now. In terms of pattern. This is possible when terms of straight up cycling, it isn't. But it's an interesting thing and I wanted to show it to you. 9. Moving the bust dart all around the bodice: Another thing you can do is to move the bust dart around anywhere. You can be somewhere else on the shoulder. It could be like we did alone, arm hold. It could be from the side seam. It could be as a French data about intersection between the sides and hair. It could be that you move it to the waist somewhere along the way, so it doesn't actually matter which way around. You could move the bus dad into the waste. That that's a rainy day. Just like we moved the waist to the bus, that you can do the opposite so you won't have any dad left here. We are close to the waste and the waste out and look bigger. But actually it would have just incorporated the bus data inside of it, exactly like we've just done the opposite way. Now, what if we move the ways that to the bus nitrogen is done? Then we decided to move this whole new data. This massive both Dad, I'm created somewhere else you could do. You could just move data around indefinitely. Way. If we move to that, to the center prompt, that is where things get more interesting. So go ahead and mark anywhere along the center line the only part and then connect that Mike and you've just create two to the bust point. Cuts along that marking and close your bus. Of course, the section they have curtains on will open up and you can add people behind IT ticket and then folds in that section again, cutting off the excess paper that beyond say tonight. Then when you open it again, we'll have a collision. Be weird. But when you go out and stitch it, end up having something very interesting. Every time you move a data center, you going to have to have a seam on the front because you can't really cut the whole thing. Falls. What you do then is add seam allowance to the cut, two pieces, one right and one left. And then close the dance, stitching them and then stitch the scene on the front. And what you end up having is interesting effects, like God that one here. And you can play around because depending on whether you have chosen to move that to the, towards the bottom of the center line. The top of the center line, you're going to have rent angles into x. So interesting. Yeah, it's something else to play around with. Stitching these dots. It's exactly the same way as we did last week with waste, that they're just playing darts and you stitch them exactly the same way. It's just a little bit wider than bit longer potentially depending on the way on an alert bodies there are, as you can see, that big data that we took from the bus, moving it towards the center crunch that made it wastes molar. But again, the Fed should be the same. It's just how that works. So go ahead and play around with moving, dance around. This is your homework, play around. You can move dads get comfortable with the idea and moving dad. Because once you do, you can start playing around with more advanced techniques. Later. Need to understand this technique in order to create interesting. And I hope they handed fun doing it. 10. How to draft a dress dart: Another thing I wanted to show you in this module is dressed that are dressed does a little bit different too plain dad's, whether brain dads on polish, on trousers. And that's because they're kind of like a dabbled that they can be found along the waste. But on dress, single piece dresses that don't have a scene along the way. So let's construct a dress that, and I'll also show you how to stitch it. Take your template. This week, we're going to add some way beyond the handle. Stick your template and A4 sheet of paper. And then extend the center front line down, all the way down, one up, and then extend the sign saying also all the way down. Then you end up having a way, a longer borders, which is how you start to dress up and draw a waste dad from the bus point down, you can mark the line along the hand of the original bodies because they handled the original bodies is the waste that could be the waist line. At the waistline, our dad is its widest. You could take a centimeter, two centimeters. It's completely up to you. It doesn't really matter because we just learning how to create a drift down. The next thing we're going to do is you can extend the center line of the data all the way down to o, depending on how long you want address that be Now on your own. Depend how much access you have around the ten year in their head. Very similar to last week. I extend, similar to what I've already got the chart, so got more symmetry. Mark how long down you want the dress data to end. So you could model the same amount between the waistline and the bus line. And then that mannequin they have created. You could connect with either side of the data. That's along the way. I'm having this kind of diamond shape. It could be a bit narrower and it couldn't be a little bit wider depending on what measurement is tied to. The same rules apply in terms of pattern cutting. Dressed dots. Where they can be moved around the waistline. They can be split in narrower dots. They can be taken off from the side. So it could be that you could actually take one or two and measure it away from the side seam along the way. Then extend it connecting to the whole of the bottom of the apple. Then two words, however long you wanted below the waistline. But make sure that if you aren't leaving the dart frog taking off from the side, just like we did with skirts last week. Make sure that you come things a little bit and there you don't take way too much because besides silhouette, my mother told me when you do that, make sure things are balanced and that you have the dots distributed where you can, if you have a lot to take off. Don't have a sharp forms and sharp edges and less sharp geometries, your thing, it is just a guideline I'm giving you just as how things are done or more balanced look, but it isn't guideline. You could choose to ignore it and just play around and experiment and see what works and what doesn't. That's why long design, because there's just so much with just the guidelines that I've given you. So much you can do. You just need to learn these basics first and then just how they just keep going. Just keep experiment. If you have red dots, you can go ahead if you like, and merge that back because normally you would have cheap another back on those. Because the point of address that is to make a dress fit around the waist, got a nice silhouette. You don't have to have converged out to toe. You could have a straight wrist, straight down, no shaping of the waste at all. You can do ignore that and just have the streets and the way it's totally up to you. It's different things they can do depending on the fit that you want. Just like when we played with plain dads, you don't have to have them because we don't have them. You end up having really loose way if you have got nice way depending on how much you want to take in. It's totally up to you. And that's the beauty of it. 11. How to sew a dress dart: Lastly, let's stitch address that. And again, like you did last week with the stitching a plane dad, he could cut a few different pieces of material and play around with the width and the length of the database stitching. You'd essentially one to draw a dad just like you did on paper. You can start by creating a little cross, if you like, with horizontal line and a vertical line. And then decide how far up you want the top of your data to go. How far down you want the bottom of the doubt to go, then connect your markings to create that kind of watch call a stretched diamond shape. And I could do that a few times every time changing the length and the width of that diamond to that. Then you want to do is fold the material right sides together and pin along the lines that you have created, making sure that you match the top and bottom side so that the line is old enough. And when you are doing this on fabric, we want to do is, we could do that with a heartbreak pen, you like anyway, because then it'll be easier to follow any way you could do it by eye while you're sewing. But the part we've got, the sharp bits at its widest. You want to curve a little bit when you sell it because again, our bodies and curved, they're not sharp. And so what you want along the way, so you want to have nice curves. And because of that, you want, when you're stitching this kind of data, we want to have got slightly curved edge of the way through white sharp parts of a white dress. Now you might think that you just start from one side all the way to the other. But the great weight is distressed dances. You'd actually start from one side Once the middle of that size. So let's say is tap on the top half of the data, but around the middle, closer to the widest point. And then you continue on curving around the widest point. And these are all way too opposite tip of the data. And you can do it in same way as we did that last week, where at the bottom, where close to the tip, you want to end up having the needle about Prince went away the actual fold. Then timing our material line up with the needle and then just hand needle, create another couple of stitches. Then take the whole piece of fabric out with some excess thread and then catch up to finish stitching the dad we want to do is turn the data Medea. Start from where you started stitching previously, overlapping a few stitches. So you don't need to backstitch anywhere along the dark because you stitching over stitching that's already there. That has the same function as backstitch. So just tap from waste started just a few stitches behind and then stitch all the way towards the tip of the DAT and finish of the tip as you do with them the other side and how normally do named dots and blue dots with a few stitches along tip, keeping some excess thread, tying it and trimming it. Then you can go to your ion and press nicely. And in my belly to be finished, you want to do it on section two time? Because where we've got that widest part of the data is where the waste is. And so it will sit nicely on a curve like the waste. But on a flat surface you want because that's going to put Dad's to shape things so they're not flat. And so the more shape to waste you have, the smaller waist to hip ratio, the bigger your dad's will be to accommodate nice clothes fit. So be more difficult to maneuver that if that's the case, you were does they're not quite so wide, it will be easier because there won't be quite so much shaping and the waste. So it really depends on how wide DuPont and some people, to make things easy in a way, heavily to cut diagonally along the widest part of the dress. Dad, I never do this. And the reason I do this because that would weaken the material. And at some point in mind, Rick, I don't think it's a good idea. I don't think it looks very good idea because it just leaves a real wages and ending on the material. If you have used material that crazy though that's not a great idea. If you have used material which is say, see-through, everything be visible so you probably don't want to do that. I need them. Sometimes dads can be quite decorative like that. If you are using a material that see-through and you add dots, waste, for example, there'll be visible and that can be quite interesting. Definitely. You just want to make sure that you are pressing it nicely. And when it is on the body, it should set up quite nicely. If you feel like you've got too much work around the waist of the dark. We can do is you can trim the excess material of following the shape of the data. And then potentially, you could then stitch that together to just add an extra set of stitching. You can also use binding. Again, it really depends on the material of the youth because it was too and that will add bulk. So I'm not being very good at it. You see two, again, you don't want to see some random bits of binding through the right side of the material. So if you don't wanna germanium, that you want to know how the bulk, you might want to consider having more data than narrower because then they'll be less material taken in a long time. And now we'll distribute the children's data lungs all the way around the waist. Take the same amount of ways. But the whip pan Dad, no, waistline will be smaller and more manageable. 12. Module 6 bonus video - how to use darts creatively: Here is your final bonus video. And this week as we've worked on a dance on bonuses, I thought to make it a bit more interesting and show you a few different ways in which he could play around with data in a different way. So if you have a pattern ready and you want to create more samples, we could do is you can use the same pattern and create different effects just using that one pattern. What I mean by this is you could The dark on the outside of the pattern. It's teach them but instead of stitching the dads or right side, right side, you stage them wrong side to side, and you end up having the data on the outside, which could create an interesting effect, is quite unusual. And it can be very interesting. Another thing you can do is instead of stitching all the data, you could actually just pinch the dots on the top and securing them where the seams app example the shoulder or on the sides. But one way of data and that's creating pleat. Pleat can then be holding the one side and stitch that way or folded Deanna way. And it will create two completely different effects. And the final way in which you can play around with dad is to actually, once you have stitched the dad and the regular way to add to top stitching, stitching the dark down, creating an interesting top stitch detail. And you could use different colors if you like, just to make it more interesting. And again, this is pretty completely different effect, even though you'd use the same. Which one is your favorite? 13. Final thoughts and suggestions: Hello, play, experiment, enjoy it. And if you have any questions, be sure to ask. And I do hope that you have learned and not at home. They have made the most of this course. And I hope that it has given you the tools to continue and go for more advanced techniques making the most out of fashion design, experimentation. I'm so proud of you. You've come such a long way. Make sure you play around. Make sure that you take everything that you've learned past six modules and mix it up. Why not print another one of the templates from previous weeks and apply a different mix of techniques they have learned to create a completely new design. I hope they started building of older. Hope you have got a lot of samples create. I know that with some practice and experimentation, you could create some incredible things and a wardrobe to be envious. I look forward to seeing you again until then. Thank you. Hayley.