Archives 12/30-1/12 2005-2011

I laughed out loud at this photo that one of my students (Antonina) sent me. She works (hard) in the film and TV industry. Those of you who have taken my production pattern making class will probably get it right away. Everybody else, well, who knows. The back of her jacket says Poka Yoke (pronounced “poh-kah yoh-kay”) which is Japanese for idiot error proofing. Nicely made production patterns have all kinds of poka yoke strategies built into them. It’s a primary tenet of lean manufacturing. There’s no easier or better way to reduce but hopefully prevent, the number of things that can go wrong once your stuff hits the sewing line. Unfortunately, they don’t teach much of this in school or in books. It’s one of those things you learn on the job if you’ve had the fortune to work at a good company.

In any event, here is the archives post for this period in blog history -and there is more, much more on the archives page which lists nearly every entry ever published. One reader this week mentioned it was challenging to find specific material so I wrote a tutorial on how to find stuff that should dramatically improve your results (the search box is useless unless your keyword is very unique). Have a great weekend.

December 30, 2005 through January 12, 2006
Thread consumption formulas
Dress Kathleen
Nameless Tutorial #7
Nameless Tutorial #8
Push Manufacturing Bras
Sewing patterns for geeks
A question of line size
Paper wedding gown
If I were to produce a line pt 2
Top 10 lies of designer-entrepreneurs
Who’s copying whom?
Fix my pants