I was asked to help out Markus making the bodies for the mother and librarian puppets as he was having trouble figuring out how to pattern an hourglass form. I used my costume cutting knowlege to sketch a basic bodice bloack for the pattern, as if making a mannequin. I adjusted the shapes to match the design and proprtions compared to the father.
For the librarian character, they wanted a similar shape to the mother, but a little fuller and with a slight hunch back. I remebered on of the tailoring books i used at kingsleys had an extemsive section on pattern adjustments for different body types so referenced that to create the hunchback pattern.