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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction to Basic Bodice Pattern Design

      1:51

    • 2.

      Chapter 1: Drafting Basics

      2:23

    • 3.

      Tools Needed

      0:24

    • 4.

      Laying Out Measurements

      1:34

    • 5.

      Drafting The Shoulder

      1:50

    • 6.

      Drafting the Arm Hole Curve

      2:47

    • 7.

      Calculating Bust, Waist and Hip Circumference

      1:22

    • 8.

      Drafting Darts

      1:53

    • 9.

      Drafting The Back Panel

      0:44

    • 10.

      Drafting The Arm Hole On Front Back Panel

      0:46

    • 11.

      Joining Bust Waist and Hip Circumference

      1:25

    • 12.

      Drafting The Bust Dart

      1:59

    • 13.

      Drafting A Nicer Hip Shape

      0:33

    • 14.

      Drafting Review

      0:25

    • 15.

      Chapter 2: Cutting Overview

      1:41

    • 16.

      Reviewing The Cut Pattern

      0:11

    • 17.

      Course Conclusion

      0:42

    • 18.

      Bonus: Tape Rule Overview

      4:20

    • 19.

      How To Use The Tape Rule

      2:15

    • 20.

      8 Basic Pattern Making Tips To Remember

      1:50

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This course on Basic Bodice Pattern Drafting teaches you the fundamentals for drawing out body measurements into a pattern form.

Drafting a basic bodice is the first step in getting the structure for a fashion design. With proper measurements on a bodice, you can shape your fabric and curves into an excellent design.

In this course, we go through how to accurate add measurements for the neck line, the arm hole, the bust line, and waist line, with all accessory measurements along the way. I teach you how to calculate measurements so that you can draft a pattern that can be placed on drafting paper or clothing fabric for a successful design.

 

What you learn:

  • How to layout measurements for a bodice pattern
  • How to draft fitting lines and curves that will fit the body
  • How to calculate circumferences for the waist, bust and hip
  • How to construction waist and bust darts to help clothing fit
  • How to cut out a bodice pattern properly
  • How to setup drafting paper for efficient bodice pattern drafting and cutting

Fashion requires your ability to put your measurements into a good order for a fashion design to work creatively and this course will help you master that process. If you're ready to perfect your bodice pattern drafting, then see you in my course!

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Stella JB Fashion

Fashion Designer and Patternmaker

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I'm Stella, a fashion designer with a passion for blending cultures and styles into unforgettable pieces. Over the years, I've worked with talented designers across the U.S. and internationally, creating women's and children's clothing that merges contemporary Western fashion with bold, vibrant influences from around the world.

With years of experience collaborating with international designers and creating high-quality, custom garments, I've developed techniques that balance creativity with craftsmanship. In my courses, you'll learn the essential skills every fashion designer needs--how to design with purpose, cut with precision, and work confidently with premium fabrics.

From dresses and blouses to trousers, skirts, fascinators, and custom pieces, I'll guide you step-by-... See full profile

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1. Introduction to Basic Bodice Pattern Design: Welcome to Mike. Cause only basic buddies patterns for Beginners. I'm Stella. I will be your instructor. Be enough to make an upward bodies patterns in orders of course, art quantitative designs. This what is pattern? Course, I will teach you how to make an accurate bodies approximate. Starting with awkward body measurements, careful drafting and precise cutting out patterns supports the qualitative designs. In section of my course. Overview to each area with step-by-step actions. This course is for beginners in those wants him to have a good foundation. In cotton bodies patterns. You will need a few bodies soil. Who's that? I will leave you in this course. Here is my story. I am an independent fashion designer from Legos, Nigeria. For the last few years, I asked specialized in women's and children's glossy, meta unique and quality fashion design with contemporary Western an African styles. I have sought new fashion designer from my experience and perspective on quality fashion, equality, fabrics and quality soil to make dresses, blouses, trusses, cat, various art feed fascinates us and customize my courses. I love happy young fashion designer from basic of fashion and how to quote perfectly well. For this course exercise, you would stick the class cuz to coach your own body's pattern. I have provided measurement and steps to follow to successfully caught your design and trusting paper. I'll start this course. You should be able to use those measurements to drop out your body pattern that you can customize your own designer fabrics. You are ready to get started. Let's go. 2. Chapter 1: Drafting Basics: This is your drafting paper or your brown paper. Jello divide by four. And before you know the quantity or the amount of fabric you use, you have to know the BDS parts of the circumference of your body that you are using, and also the length of the fabric you are using. That is the length of your measurements or the length of the blood you want to use. Now the biggest pass of this body we are using for the sake of dysuria is the heap which is 40 inches. 40 divided by four would give us ten inches plus our one inch. That's allowing that is the width allowance. Closed our two inches seam allowance to make it that's in inches. Then you want to know the length of the fabric you are using. That is from your shoulder to the hip? The shoulder to the hip. I'm using here 25 inches by five inches close one inch allowance. The rest is okay. But if it's a fabric, you have to catch it. Now, this is the front panel. Why this is the back panel. Before you cut the back panel, you have to add your 1.5 inch zip allowance. The front panel is already touching inches wide. The back panel will be giving us 14.5 inches plus 1.5 inch zip allowance. This is Zip allowance. Just sweep. The next thing you do once you have gotten your zip allowance, list, the front panel, this mean, then pin it down if you want to use paint fine. But if you also want to use Pippa, this way, why, why do you opinions so that your walk or the fabric or your pass on paper will not be shifting or moving. This week. If you don't need this way, that means you are ready. So let's go do the main work. 3. Tools Needed: The tools you'll be needing, you'll be needing your scissors. Yamaka got CIP rules. You're, you're French, call, then your ruler. And another thing you believed you need your accurate measurements, that is your boss measurements showed up measurements, your waist measurement and your hip measurements. 4. Laying Out Measurements: From the shoulder, the Napal, Where we're using 9.5, then the waist measurement, which is 70 inches, then the hip, which is 25 inches. Have to get it. Again so that you can rule. It can get the correct measurements. Have to join the points together. All you need to do, joins the points together. Joining two points together. You go ahead to label the points. This is the bust point. The most points for the boys lines. This is the width line. This is a heap. Applying. 5. Drafting The Shoulder : Then let's sketch our short-term measurements. Measurements. I'm using a cysteine. Cysteine divided by two will give us eight. You mark. The next thing is to get your neck line. The neck line will be using here. First, you have to get the width of your neck. The width of the neck, the standard width of the neck we are using here is three inches, then the standard depths is seven. But for the sake of this tutorial, we'll be using five inches. We're using five inches. So for beginners, while we do is just get the bolus. So you can get your perfectly for you to get the calls. Just copy this way. Your net lined. The next thing is to get our handhold. Before our humble, we need to get the shoulder sloped. As you all know that our show that is not straight is what is sloppy. How do you get your shoulder slope? Probably shorter line. You might want inch down, one inch down, one inch. Then from this point, you're joining it to this net point. Net my points. 6. Drafting the Arm Hole Curve: So the next team is to get your HAM. Who, how did you get your HAM? Who? First of all, you have to get the depth of the ampoule. How do you get the depth of your handful, your boast measurements? In this case, the bush measurement we're using here is 38 divided by six clause. 1.5 gets him several points. You measure your 7.8 from this point, from the slope, from the short asked several 0.87 points, eight around this points, you imagine seven points, eight, then rule, it's done. Drawing these two points together. We need to draw our zone data. This way. How do we get this curve here? And before ten? We want, because the front, the front panel and the panel is not the same way you want to get the ampoule. What's unique to do? You divide this link here into two, divided into two from this point to this point, divided into two will be giving us three points. Nine. You measure three points mites. 3.93.9 is around this week. This is the midpoint of the line because we want to measure, wants to have the front panel from this point, measure 30k to quote three-quarter. Get our front cover. Why do we measure these three quota? Because by the time you raise your hand, it will not be too tight. We have to cut out the essays so that when you are raising your hands, it will not be too tight. So what you need to do from this point to this point, then you coverage by using your curve ruler. That is how to get your cough. Make sure the points are lining. This way. As you can see. You join it together. Joined the points together. This is your front arm, H2O. 7. Calculating Bust, Waist and Hip Circumference: The next thing you need to do is to get all your circumference. You're both circumference, your waist circumference, then your hip circumference. The circumference we are using here, that is your boss measurements. The measurements here I'm using here is 38 divided by four. You will have a 9.5. You will measure your 9.5. So this is my 0.5. You, this line here, this line here stands as your chest line. From the chest line, you mentioned my 0.5. The same thing. Put the same number you got in your boss points. Come to your waistline. We have the width layer I'm using here is 3232 divided by four will be giving you eight inches. You mark your it's inches. Mark your eight inches. This way. Your hip measurement is 4040 divided by four will give you ten nodes. I have not added any seam allowance. 8. Drafting Darts: Now the next thing we need to do is to get out our nipple, the nipple measurement. Then he puts a newborn measurements in this tutorial is it's inches divided by two will be giving us four. Then you mark down four inches. Market down. Then joining the points together. Make sure you join the points together. Joining the point together. From this bonus points come down by one inch by one inch, which is the EPA's this point here is the EPS from the hip points here. You come up by two inches by two inches from your waistline. Half inches in both side, inches in both sides. Then join the points together. This point joining with these points this way, joined together. Sway. This line we got corrupted Here. They are coded that helps to give your government nice fitting over the board. And the heap. 9. Drafting The Back Panel: When it comes to cutting the back panel, make sure you bring that to your z per hour, which is 1.51. Debts for the buck partner is not the same thing. We usually use one inch. You will measure one inch for the buck. This one we actually did here is for the front panel. You measure one inch. Then you join it with this point to get your cove. 10. Drafting The Arm Hole On Front Back Panel: Now, when you want to coat the handhold for the back, there's no point bringing out these. What you need to do. This is the length. Then what you need to do is just to get your cough in case you want to make it easy. You can just from this point, the measure 1.51 inches on HE just for direction. Then you cause I need to do you just to call off the back. I don't need to bring out these essays, this one, I don't need to cut it out. So all I need to do it is to just join, to just get a cold. 11. Joining Bust Waist and Hip Circumference: So when I'm caught, I'm gonna cut for us for the back. Then before cutting for the front notes. The difference between the front and the back dots is that the front dots is touching from the boss points. You come down by one inch wide. The back dots is starting from the chest points or the chest line. You also come down by one inch. That is a suit difference. So all you need to do then you join these points. As you can see from this point here. I brought at one inch for the dads. We need to add it back. This waistline. You add more extra one inch to the waistline. One inch you added yet I'm going to cut out from this data. We add it back. One inch plus 1.5 inch allowance, 1.5 inch allowance, 1.5 inch allowance. You need to do is to just join the points together. So you joined it from this point. 12. Drafting The Bust Dart: It gives you your oxygen. How do you get your, your boasts that you need to do? You will divide this point here. You divide it into two. Divide this point, measure it, then divide into true, just get the midpoint of this, this distance. This is, this is heat, then divide it into two. This is the midpoint. All I need to do is to just check it this way and measure. This is the midpoint. What you do is to bring this point, join this point and this point together. This point and this point together. Then from this point, sick one measure one inch. You measure one inch. This point, from this point, this middle point, sorry. This line is not there. This line is not its own. I McDonald's is not there. So this is the language going with from this point here, you measure half an inch in both side. Half an inch in both side. I've been chair of inches. Then you join this point to this point, this point to this point. Do the same thing here. This is the side. That's why this is the whisker dots. 13. Drafting A Nicer Hip Shape: You know, you can just leave this your blouse this way you want to, you want to make sure it has a very nice shape. From the hip. Points, you will measure one inch upward, will measure one or two inches upward. Let's make it two inches upward. Then you give it give it in my shape. Just to give it in my shape. We just covered this way. 14. Drafting Review: Before we do the cutting, I believe you know how to cut the front and the back neck line. How to get your shoulders loop? How to get the fronts and the backhand **, how to get your side. That's how to get your W2 dots. Also how to get all your circumference. 15. Chapter 2: Cutting Overview: I'm cutting out front on the BACC primarily performed on the combined paper or fabric. What I get to the umbo, I caught the bug. Tom Wolf was not a deep compared to the front. I do the same as the net line cotton for the bucket. I bring up the front panel to ship the midline on the front it to trace the back panel so that you can cause separately. You have your perfect cotton, then you practice it on your, on your own. For me, I'm already used to eat. That is why I'm putting it this way. I'm not separately. 16. Reviewing The Cut Pattern: Wow, this is so lovely. This is all we have done so far. This is the front panel. You can see how Jesus is the front panel, why this is the back panel. 17. Course Conclusion: Congratulations on completing this course on cotton, basic bodies patterns. In this course, we went through how to use measurements of drugs. Possibly basic pattern in paper. I believe we can now comfortably trapped and cause a physic bodies pattern. If you have any questions, comments in the course, and I am happy to answer. Feel free to leave photo of your walk where you complete your projects. I love to see your progress. I enjoy being your instructor. If you enjoyed this class, please leave a good review and check my profile for more cost. This has been stellar. See you in the next class. 18. Bonus: Tape Rule Overview: What do you understand by Chip room? Peru is a measurement or a flexible ruler. If possible ruler measurement that is used to measure distance and sizes. We have varieties of these measurements, this ruler, they include plastic, these two and the fiber glass is also used for the measurement, drafting parts on measuring fabric, measuring our curves and corners. Now let's go. This is a typical example of one inch chip route. From year to year is one inch. And half of this one inch would give us one over two inch. Further divide half of these. It would give us one over four. When we further divide is one over four, it's default. 1 eighth. When you further divide is 1 eighth, which we still give you one over 16. And I said, when you watch, watch very well. As it's decreasing, it's increasing w of the previous one. When sometimes you ask, Is this have gotten, how did they get this out of the gate at the goddess? As we can see, this particular tip, r2 is having system bars 1234567891011121314151616 bars here to make it one inch. Now the first one is one over 16. It can no longer be divided for them. That is why we left it that way. The second one is meant to be two over 16, which is two over 16. We dynasty we have to do is sue divide it to the smallest fraction, year one to year eight. That is how we got this one over eight. The next one is three over 16, which can no longer be divided for them. We leave it that way. The next one is four over 164, over 16. You see we can divide for that Swiss smaller fraction for year one, for year four. That is how we got one-quarter. Here. You move the same way. Five over 16 is no longer be divided. You move to the next one which is six over cysteine. We can leave it like this. It can further be divided to yet three to eight. That is how we got three over x. The next one is seven over 167 of our system, which can no longer be divided for that. Now you'll be asking, how did we get this half year is eight over 16, which is eight over 16, we can follow up, divide it to a smaller fraction. It here, E1 and E2. That is how we got our half-year. The next one is nine over nine over 16, which can no longer be divided for the last bar, is ten over 16, which can further be divided into smaller fraction five. Yet aids. That is how we got five over eight. The next one is one over 16, which can no longer be divided for them. The next bar is 12 over cysteine swath of a cysteine, which will further be divided to a smaller fraction. Six to ES6 aids. We can see divided to a smaller fraction. Yet three to year four, which is through quarter, three over four. The next one. The next one is Tati, or via Cysteine setting of a system which can no longer be divided into two smaller fraction. The next one is 14 over 16. We can further divide into smaller fraction. Yes, 7287 over eight. The next one is 15 over cysteine. It can no longer be divided. Cherry Smirnoff fraction will live with away 15 over 16. 19. How To Use The Tape Rule: In some measurements, when you have your measurements, you have it in decimal points. Is somebody is something that you don't have to be confused about is still the same thing when it comes to your tip rule. You just delete them, you just for you to be familiar with, like when we are calculating our Puebloan, it gives us in decimal points. Right now. Go one over two is the same thing as 0.5. Kids, when you measure and you get 0.5, just know it's the same thing as half, half of your tip rule. That is the symptom as half an inch. You don't have to be a freedom. How do I get this? Just know is symptomatic from year to year. The report five want your one-quarter one-quarter is also dissented, as is there a 0.25 that is half of this half of 0.5 would give you 0.25. When you divide one over following two, give me 0.05. Is there a point? So five, when you divide 0.25, it will also give you 0.1 to one to five. That is half of one-quarter. Well, no. So three divided by four would give me 0.75. In a situation whereby you have your measurements 1.75. We don't have to be afraid is the same thing. I want to be quarter from yet to displace is 13 quota and it's also the symptoms at 1.75 from yet is 1.75. If maybe a situation whereby you have 1.25 is also the same thing as 1.25. One more quarter. Maybe where you see 1.5 is the same thing I went on half, which is from year to year. 1.5 is also the same as 1.50. That is how to read your tip rule. 20. 8 Basic Pattern Making Tips To Remember: Hillary tips for those new to pattern-making. I'm Alice and associate of stellar, and this guide will help you get comfortable in your new fashion journey. Tip number one, understanding the basics. Familiarize yourself with key terms like green line, seam allowance, notches and dots. Tip number two, pig precise measurements ensure accurate measurements by following a reliable measurement guide for bust, waist, hips, and other relevant areas. Tip number three, start with simple patterns. Begin with basic silhouettes like a straight skirt or a simple top to build a strong foundation. Tip number four, create Muslim prototypes. Use inexpensive fabric like Muslim to create mock-ups and test patterns before cutting into expensive materials. Tip number five, master pattern alterations. Learn how to adjust patterns to fit different body types by adding or reducing width, length or curves. Tip number six, explore pattern-making software. Experiment with pattern-making software like Adobe Illustrator or specialized programs to streamline that process. Number seven, learn from online resources that into online tutorials, blogs, and forums to learn new techniques, troubleshoot problems, and connect with other pattern makers. Tip number eight, practice, practice, practice. Pattern-making is a skill that improves with practice. Embrace mistakes as learning opportunities and keep honing your craft. Remember, pattern-making is a creative and rewarding process. So roll up your sleeves, grab your tunes, and let your imagination run wild. Happy pattern-making