PROFESSIONAL PATTERN CUTTING
Pattern Cutting for Tops, Dresses and Sleeves
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
This course forms part of our Professional Pattern Cutting Programme. It’s a great introduction to the art of pattern cutting. It is aimed at those wishing to learn pattern cutting techniques to gain skills to cut and make clothes to their own shape and size or to gain employment within the fashion industry or to use when making samples or to oversee the production of garments for their own fashion business. We recommend this course to those with some experience or pattern cutting or as a direct follow on to our Stage 1 Pattern Cutting for Skirts course
WHAT WILL I LEARN?
You will draft a Bodice Block to your own size or to a standard size 12. You will then cut and sew the block in calico and learn to make fit adjustments to achieve a perfect personal fit. Using the full scale and quarter scale block you will learn pattern manipulations including: Darts and dart manipulation, moving darts into seams to create a Wing seam and a Princess line seam. It will cover drafting techniques for necklines, armholes, facings, a button wrap a flat collar, a stand collar and 2- piece collar. You will develop the Bodice Block to create a Dress Block then draft and fit a Sleeve Block. You will then draft a pattern for a skirt of your choice to include seam allowances, annotations and all pattern markings.
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