Teens 10% Leotard Block (Dance)
This is the Teen's 10% negative ease leotard block. It's the ultimate tool for creating your own teens dance patterns!
It has been designed specifically for dance and gymnastics with a more full coverage bottom and is better contoured for teens longer bodies. It's also designed to better handle torso rotation on the vertical without as much rippling as standard blocks.
This block comes in two formats:
1. Undarted: suitable for up to a B Cup
2. Darted for A, B, C and D cups (but slightly compressing)
I don't use girth as a measurement although many dance makers do. Instead I use nape to waist and waist to fullest hips so we can properly locate the waist (important if you need to know exactly where to increase girth). When you need to further change the overall girth you still do so at the waist if it's a small amount (less than 4cm), by checking the difference between the block's nape to waist and waist to hips against those measurements on the Teen. Any more than 4cm and you would be advised to distribute that extra length across several places on the vertical.
There is no vertical negative ease included so you can directly measure the blocks on the vertical.
This block includes a symmetrical front to back sleeve block and a whole host of different guide lines to help you design (there's an included PDF tell you how to use find and use the optional guidelines).
This base block/sloper set contains 13 individual sizes in 2cm increments, to suit ...
- Under Bust: 52-76cm
- Waist: 56-84cm
- Hips: 70-94cm
There is a size table included on every page of the pattern and in the images above.
