Darts are almost impossible to avoid when you are sewing, it is necessary for letting the fabrics follow the curves that the body obviously has, and on the top I made the other day, there were darts at the shoulder, to make the sleeves fall nicely over it.
I have never marked with chalk on the fabrics, but instead I have done like this:
Marking of darts:
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| Cut with the scissors a small chip at the ends of the dart and put a pin through the point of the dart. Pull carefully the pattern off, while the pin stays in the fabric (the head of the pin is pulled through the paper). |
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| Open up, so you have both the backsides and be sure, that the pin is going through both layers. |
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| Place a pin through the same hole in both layers, and make sure the point of the pins are pointing towards the two chips at the edges. |
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| Now the darts are marked, then you put the two chips together in each dart, so that they form a triangle with the pin at the end. Ready to sew. |
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