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Pattern Making & Drafting Online Video Lessons
Avoid frustration and wasting your time! Achieve perfectly fitted garments by drafting and
making your own custom block patterns, according to your own or others’ body measurements.
Note: You can measure yourself or others the way we teach you how to measure manikins.
Once you learn how to make block patterns, you can style them accroding to the design of
your garment by following the steps in our garment sewing video lessons here.
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Bodice Block Pattern Making (Drafting) - Online Video Lesson This video lesson will enable you to sew well fitted garments! You will learn how to do measurements, calculating dart intakes and drafting front and back bodice patterns. |
Video Chapters: 22 4Duration: 68 mins   |
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Sleeve Block Pattern Drafting (Set-in/Semi Fitted) - Online Video Lesson Learn how to measure and draft set-in sleeve block patterns. The set in sleeve is the most common type of sleeve and many other sleeve styles derive from it. You will also learn how to add seam and hem allowances around the sleeve pattern and mark notches and tailor’s tack on it. |
Video Chapters: 8 3 Duration: 62 mins |
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Skirt Block Pattern Making (Straight & Tapered) - Online Video Lesson Learn how to measure the body, draft a straight and tapered skirt block pattern according to your measurements. This lesson includes how to calculate the darts, adding seam allowances, abutted slit and hem allowances and how to mark and draw the lengthwise grain line. |
Video Chapters: 16 3 Duration: 68 mins |
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Full Figure Skirt Block Pattern Making (Drafting) - Online Video Lesson Learn how to make full figure straight skirt block patterns with abutted slits using the Nehzat Houshan method. This will help you achieve perfectly fitted skirts that fall well on the body and with hemlines that are parallel to the floor! Before cutting and sewing your fabric, I recommend testing your pattern on muslin fabric, to make sure your pattern fits you. |
Video Chapters: 18 2 Duration: 77 mins |
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Pants Block Pattern Making (Drafting) - Online Video Lesson Learn how to draft pants block patterns using the Nehzat Houshan method. You will learn how to do measurements, calculating dart intakes and drafting front and back pants block patterns. |
Video Chapters: 26 3 Duration: 105 mins |
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Pants Pattern Alteration (Adjustment) for Different Body Shapes - Online Video Lesson Learn how to adjust pants block patterns for different body shapes. Includes increasing and decreasing the rise, increasing and decreasing the crotch length for standard, full figures, larger and flatter tummies, larger and flatter buttocks and larger thighs. |
Video Chapters: 12 3 Duration: 52 mins |
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Pants Block Pattern Styling - Online Video Lesson Learn how to style pants block patterns, including: how to convert one waist dart into two, how to change a pants block pattern to a straight style, how to change a pants block pattern to a tapered style and how to change a pants block pattern to a flared (bell bottom) style. |
Video Chapters: 9 2 Duration: 50 mins |
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