This beginner pattern making class is intended for both home stitchers and fashion design students. You have design ideas, but don’t know where to start in making them a reality.
This beginner pattern making class is intended for both home stitchers and fashion design students. You have design ideas, but don’t know where to start in making them a reality.
In this class, you will learn the basics of drafting a pattern, which is used in sewing to cut pieces for a garment!
All students will use the same size for the basic bodice and skirt blocks so that the focus is learning fundamental techniques, such as dart manipulation, slash-spread, pivotal-transfer, pleats, gathers, style lines, contouring, and adding fullness to aid in the design process.
We will sew muslins for some of the pattern manipulations. If you desire to create a customized block to your measurements, you may use lab time to work on that.
There will be sewing machines to use in class when needed.
Prerequisite: Must have some sewing experience. Garment-making experience is preferred, but not required.
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Home Sewing classes are intended for ages 13 and up. Fashion Design classes are intended for ages 16 and up. If student is below minimum age requirement, private lessons can be scheduled.
This course for students to learn how to create a pattern based on body measurements. Final Project: Vest, Pants, Jacket, Skirt, Dress and Coat
Paris Fashion Institute acts as a hands-on guide for a professional living textbook of fashion creation, history and marketing; It utilizes the enormous range of assets available only in Paris, fashion capital of the world.
This studio course introduces students to the Art and Skill of Draping: creating three dimensional patterns with muslin on the Dress Form, draping in the traditional French style. Students use muslin to sculpt patterns on a dress form.
You will have patterns that fit and you’ll be able to turn it into innumerable designs for skirts, shirts and blouses, dresses and pants. You will learn how to make patterns, fit them, manipulate them, design them then make them for knits. Sign up for the classes one at a time or sign up for the ...
Learn how to use pattern blocks or slopers to draft your own fashion designs in our Patternmaking Intensive: Create Original Styles Using Pattern Blocks. Students in this patternmaking class learn how to manipulate darts and make style lines to create their own original sewing patterns.
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