Modest Maternity At Its Best

In addition to meeting the needs of the average modesty-conscious consumers, KosherPatterns.com has not forgotten about the population of expectant mothers who cherish and value modesty in their child-bearing years.  We are releasing today our premier edition of My Sloper Maternity Version 3.0, by offering a full and demo version in our online store.  This is good news for those who sew for modest maternity needs.

What makes My Sloper Maternity unique?

• When a regular apparel is worn on expectant women, one will notice that the front hemline will lift up and be uneven with the back hemline. Even though uneven hemlines seem to be a fashion statement these days,  modest consumers regard the ready-to-wear hi-lo hemlines as anything but immodest.  My Sloper Maternity’s design provides an even front and back hem length.  Thus, we ensure a modest coverage for the modest expectant mother.

•  My Sloper Maternity accepts Pre-Maternity Sizing.  One just needs to reuse the sizing before maternity and let the software do its magic.  XML Profiles save a lot of time.

• With its default ease measurements, one can design a comfortable maternity garment that fits the expectant mother throughout her pregnancy. One has to simply adjust the Maternity waist-to-hip depth accordingly to accommodate tummy growth as the pregnancy progresses.

• My Sloper Maternity 3.0 offers three garment lengths: hip, mid-calf and ankle.  Remember to adjust the pattern grid columns and rows when you need more pattern viewing space.

• My Sloper Maternity 3.0 offers 9 basic maternity styles that can mix and match with 10 sleeve hem styles, 5 garment openings, and 15 collar styles.  If you do the math, you will get a combination of 6,750 variations of maternity garments!!!

9 Maternity Styles

10 Sleeve Hem Styles

15 Collar Styles

5 Garment Openings

• Our Basic Maternity and Empire Waist Bodice styles also supports a Center Front Pleat and a Cowl Neckline for a Back Zipper opening and Front Shoulder Pleats for all openings.

• My Sloper Maternity includes these extras: pockets, neck facings, and trims (flounces) to embellish your maternity garment.

Here is a snapshot of the Maternity Tab in My Sloper Version 3.0.

 Sample Gallery

Here is small sampling of what you can make from My Sloper Maternity 3.0.  Enjoy!

Download My Sloper Maternity 3.0

Download the Free Demo to sew a test garment with a Basic Bodice, Back Zipper, Jewel Neckline and Full-length Basic Sleeve on an expectant mother.  Send us pictures of your creations with your best fabrics to enter a raffle to win a Full Version of My Sloper Maternity 3.0!

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We are pleased to announce the release of My Sloper Dress 2.0, with new dress patterns and sleeve hem styling and other new goodies.

Modest Dress Patterns

With the addition of 3 new dress patterns that focus on paneling and 3 new gathered tiers patterns, My Sloper Blouse 2.0 offers at least 20 ways of enhancing your modest wardrobe. These new back-zipped styles require minimal configuration, just click on the pattern, add enough flair at the hips, and print. Let’s get started with the new styles.

3 new Panel Aline Styles – A, B, C

Panel A-line Dress Style A

This style offers a front and back neck yoke, a middle panel and option to add flounce along the yoke seam line. The flounce pattern can be generated in the Trims Tab as there are so many different ways of designing a flounce. We leave it up to your creativity! However, we offer you some guidance on the measurements for the flounce when you select and draw the back and front dress patterns.

Panel A-line Dress Style A

Use the Computed Front & Back Yoke length (see blue highlight) to design your flounce length. Cut 2 of this flounce pattern for the blouse, one on each side.

Panel A-line Dress Style C

This style has panel lines starting from mid-shoulder to the hem. It is similar to a Princess-line style, but designed for a modest A-line silhouette. Flounces can be added along the top front and/or back of the panel line. Use the guide below to help you with the flounce length.

Panel A-line Dress Style C

The front and back panel trim lengths are merely a guide; you can make the flounce length shorter or longer.

Panel A-line Blouse Style B

This style’s panel line runs from the middle of the front/back neck towards the hem line. It has lots of options for flounce styling. See some samples from My Sloper Blouse 2.0 for a few options. Use well-blended fabric prints and colors for modesty. Avoid color-blocking that focuses on attention-seeking bold, contrasting loud color schemes.

Panel A-line Dress Style B

Guidance for the flounce length is given from these computed front and back neck measurements.

The panel line runs from the middle of the front neck to the hem. If you want to add flounce to the front middle panel, take half of the computed front neck measurement for your flounce length. If you want to add flounce to the neckline that stops at the front and back panel, take (half of computed back neck measurement + half of computed front neck measurement) for your flounce length. That’s all there is to it.

Dress with Gathered Tiers Skirt

My Sloper Dress 2.0 has 3 new variations for tiers with gathers.  Most gathered tiers utilize a lot of fabric rectangles, but My Sloper Dress 2.0’s gathered tiers skirt pattern are all A-line based and will save you a lot of fabric.  These gathered tiers style apply to empire, natural and drop waistlines.

Sample Dress Made with Gathered Tiers at the Skirt

Sleeve Hem Styles

Like my Sloper Blouse 2.0, My Sloper Dress 2.0 also has an addition of 4 new sleeve hem styles: Elastic Cased Hem, Elastic Case Frill, Flair Cuff and Frill Cuff.

4 New Sleeve Hem Styles

Sleeve Tab

The Sleeve Tab has been eliminated from My Sloper Dress 2.0. Everything you need to style the sleeve hem is in the Dress Tab. In addition, we added a check-box to help you tweak the sleeve cap.

Check this box to enable messages to increase or decrease the Sleeve Notch Control value.

You don’t need to follow these message guidelines if the sleeve cap looks smooth to you. The message will disappear if the sleeve notch control value is satisfied. My Sloper Dress 2.0 uses complicated math to guide you to produce the smoothest sleeve cap possible, but sometimes it will alternate between increasing and decreasing the sleeve notch control value and will not settle down. In that case, you can ignore the message and uncheck the box to disable the message. This applies to a case-by-case basis. In general, it is recommended to leave the message display and follow its guideline.

Dress Tab

Here is the look of the new Dress Tab.

Download

We have updated the Dress Demo software to Version 2.0 as well.  It has minimal features enabled along with bug fixes for the basic dress sloper.  If you have downloaded the 1.9 version in the past, you might want to check out the 2.0 version.

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The news of the arrival of a newborn baby girl often times brings the creative juices flowing.  If you have time in your hands, you may automatically think about sewing dresses for the baby even before she could walk.  Here are a few tips when designing patterns for babies and toddlers.

Modesty

Families who embrace modesty in their way of life can design modest clothing styles for their toddlers, thanks to My Sloper Software.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old, he will not depart from it. — Proverbs 22:6

Although training for modesty should begin early in the education of a girl, the exact age to start varies from community to community.  This training could begin as early as the age of 3 or 6.   Regardless of the age variance, parents provide modest clothing to their young daughters to accustom them to ways of modesty.  Modesty as we know, is not limited to just our outer appearance, but includes our behavior to G-d and society.

Ease

Babies in their toddler stage are quite active little people.  Add enough ease to their clothing to enable movement and activity as well as to accommodate the diaper.

Fabric

Sewing baby clothing takes very little yardage.  You can use your fabric stash for coordinating fabric to make up a whole garment and leftover trims for that extra cute adornments.  Use cotton whenever possible for the sensitive baby skin. You may try synthetic fabrics and at the same time, you should watch out for any allergic reaction to the material.

Lining

Line the upper bodice if you will be using a zipper to reduce any skin irritation to the zipper tape.

Button Closings

Your garment may have a button closing instead of a zipper.  Ensure that the buttons are secured properly to prevent the baby from swallowing them.

Gallery

Here is a sample gallery of baby clothing you can design with My Sloper Blouse, Skirt and Dress.  This gallery will be updated for more ideas.

Download

Although not comprehensive, here is a free XML Profile for babies age 12 through 24 months to be used in conjunction with My Sloper.

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