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Easy Sewing Kit: Learn To Draft An Offshoulder Dress

teacher avatar Stella JB Fashion, Fashion Designer and Patternmaker

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Course Introduction

      1:25

    • 2.

      Course Materials

      0:29

    • 3.

      Drafting Setup

      1:27

    • 4.

      Adding Vertical Measurements

      4:15

    • 5.

      Drafting The Neckline

      2:39

    • 6.

      Drafting The Waist Darts

      5:06

    • 7.

      Drafting The Seam Allowance

      1:56

    • 8.

      Cutting Out The Offshoulder Pattern

      2:52

    • 9.

      Drafting The Offshoulder Sleeve

      7:05

    • 10.

      Drafting The Offshoulder Sleeve Allowance

      0:40

    • 11.

      Cutting The Offshoulder Sleeve

      1:07

    • 12.

      Course Conclusion

      0:40

    • 13.

      Intro To A Flownce Peplon Pattern

      0:15

    • 14.

      01 Setting Up Measurements

      1:46

    • 15.

      02 Drafting The Peplon Shape

      2:23

    • 16.

      03 Cutting Our Your Design

      3:26

    • 17.

      04 Sewing The Design

      11:29

    • 18.

      05 Finalizing The Sewing

      10:57

    • 19.

      06 Attaching The Peplon

      7:13

    • 20.

      07 Final Design

      0:20

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The Easy Sewing Kit - Learn To Draft An Offshoulder Dress Course teaches you how to construct a beautiful dress in the offshoulder style.

In this course, you learn to draft a pattern for an offshoulder dress and sleeve, using fitting measurements, and quality techniques. We begin with organizing your pattern paper with accurate measurements laid out properly. You will then learn to calculate the armhole, the waist darts, and allowances. Finally you will draft accurate lines to match quality measurements for a fitting design.

What you learn:

  • How to layout measurements for an offshoulder dress
  • How to arrange a offshoulder pattern
  • How to calculate the neckline and the armhole curve
  • How to draft allowances for sewing seams
  • How to layout fitting offshoulder sleeve
  • How to cut out both offshoulder dress and offshoulder sleeve

The ability to draft different styles helps you grow your craft and skill. This offshoulder drafting course is made to help you grow in both, and be ready for your own creative take to the offshoulder dress.

If you're ready to draft your offshoulder dress, 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. Course Introduction: The offshoot or trace is a beautiful and facets iPads to an outfits. Knew how to track. Each, can add the right flips. Your wardrobe. Hi, I'm Stella, your instructor for this easy, sweet kid class on drafting an offshoot address. In this class for our skills level, you will learn the basic of laying out measurement and gelatinous an offshoot of pattern, which is clip. You also learn how to accurately judge a fitting or should a pattern included the neckline? I'm Hall, the width that unnecessary allowances for an offshoot, a design ready to solve. I discovered my passion in freshman over 80 category, which I blew them from a hobbyist to an independent designer, making him a variety of stars for women to brand and see me just in Western and African scouts. Matching your old fashion is not always easy, but where you truly are getting into the work of InDesign, Jerry's is pressure, earshot suppress on. In this course, I hope to share that passion with you in your work. At the end of this course, you will be confidence in drafting your own offshore that pattern. If you are ready to pass it to offshore the threats in, then let's go. 2. Course Materials: Materials you'll be needing for these shorter trotting. The pattern paper. Masking tape sees us. Long ruler. Then your code, your cover letter. 3. Drafting Setup: Hello, my name is Tyler was legit fashion. I will be to change you on how to draft your shoulder and your sleeve. Before then a mode to teach you on how to minimize all utilize your material. So I don't just wished your material k. So we wanted to track your offshore that or you want to drop anything to get the width of your fabric. You use the biggest circumference of your product measurements for the widths. So the biggest measurement I'm using here is the hip. The hip is 40 to 42 divided by four. The given me 10.5 inches plus 1.5 inch seam allowance. Okay. That's too often. But I made it seem so that I can have a little space where I can just drops for you to get the depth of your material. It depends on how the length which you want. Maybe you want to stop at your width if is a wisdom, the length of the muscle you are using should be your width. If you're stopping at the hip, it will be your hip. And if you are stopping at the new, it depends on what you want. For the sake of this tutorial we'll be using will be stopping rule. We are using full length of the material. That is what we want. The full length of the blouse. 4. Adding Vertical Measurements: So the force team, YouTube is an offshoot. Our kids be taking off the shoulder. Not pass night. It depends on what you want. If you want to be very deep, you can go as low as six inches. But for the sake of this tutorial, I will be using for an app which is by the time I saw it be five inches. I'm thinking of what you do. You take your tip rule this way as some GI right now to the edge of your shoulder, right here. The line head to the neck line. You will put it this way. Take off your 4.5. Then the next day you took all your measurements. Now, that'll be sick in my nipple measurements or the nipple measurement is my n half inches. Then going down to my boasts of an F, going down to the wastes, that is 16 and have measurement is 23.5. Then the full length of this material, of this fabric I'm using, the blocks is 25 inches plus or sewing, allowing your seam allowance for your ham allowance, that is 6.5. I'm using one inch for this for the M allowance. I'll just see if I can get a straight line. Just repeats the simple point, Jim. Then join the points in a straight line. I'm just saying I'm just connecting the points. Once I am done with this, the next thing you do just to liberate, you don't get confused, okay. If you want to get your APA posts, what he does do, you just come up by one inch is always profits. Always correct. Okay. Get your APA boast line. This is your APA. This is both points. This is on the bus. This is a W2. This is the heap. The full lengths of the blouse. Okay? The next thing we do before they will just note the difference between the buck Andy fronts panel. It shows the zip allowance. Any ship I have at the front. I'm also happy to simple descent ship at the bank for the buck panel. So duly different. It shows the zip allowance, which is one inch. That is what I left. Okay. 5. Drafting The Neckline: So the next thing you to use to get your net client hearts get your width measurements. You need to know your upper road measurement or the APA, both measurement divided by eight plot 0.58 allowance or your Neopets nipple divided by two plus 0.5 inch allowance. The shoulder measurement, urine should have measurements for this tutorial is 44 inches minus the APA boss measurement, which is 35 inches. Okay. That is it would give me nine inches because this fabric is unfolds. I have to divide it into two to give me 9.54 are going to measure the foreign half plus half inch allowance. That is five inches. You have your market there. Take your five-inch. This week, does your five inches or key. The next thing you do is to get you, I'm WHO curve to get your harm H2O. So I'll get your AMO. We have to take our boss circumference. The circumference here we are taking here is 38 divided by four to give me nine inches plus 0.5 each IES allowance. You would sit it here. Nian half. You do is to join this point to this point in recovery. You have to cover it. I am taking these measurements at the all-purpose because when I took it at both points is going through make your it may go to make the ammo to be to be. So that's why I'm taking it here. Okay. For you joined the points together in recovery. I feel like the Nest Team we do this is your hands. You want to get the depth of your neck. Just come down by one inch. You're going to come down by 1.5 is fine. But I'm using one inch, then I'm going to cover it as well. 6. Drafting The Waist Darts: So the next day you do to get our spam measurements. The boss, the boss pan here. It's divided by two. That is four inches. Four inches down to full length. Four inches. Four inches. My wrists, four inches. Down to displace. Then you join the points in a straight line, joining two points together. When you are done with this, the next thing you do is once we get our whisker, dots from the boss measurements, calm down by one, Come down by one inch. Like this. The width measurements, you'd take off an H in both sides. Half an inch, then to the heap. You come up by two inches. Joined the points together. Join these points. Points, points, points. Joining this point to this point. This point to this point. Why don't we teach you is to take all Sacco friends or your conference room, shack or friend. You come from the boast whatsoever you took care, you bring them, bring it down. That is, what will the measurement was I'm using is 3232 divided by four, is eight inches. And before then, you will measure this. That's the true cutoff displace. This is half way. You have to replace it back. When you if you have your on-campus measurements, you take, your honor, both you and I both measurements. It's depends if you have, your honor, both measurement and measurement or through yet he stood that it's true. In 30, true? True. Divided by four is eight inches plus you have to add half inch. That is what your half here. Back here. Come to the width statute to come here. This is one inch that we left. You add it back one inch to the heap. We're 42 inches divided by four, which is 10.5. There's no dots did that did not get 10.5. You have to measure your 10.5 here. Then I'm half symptoms to this full-length measure, the same thing here. Joining the points together. This point to this point. Then make sure you blend this side is no sure there's no sharp. 7. Drafting The Seam Allowance: We are taking our loved ones 1.5 inch allowance. You would sit all round one and enjoying the points together. That is all for these. For these, if we have done these damaged goods go, the next thing we'll do is just record. It's out before the notes. This is an allowance. We left this, please. We have to take it up because this is the ducts allowance. I didn't take it out. I just want to add it here. So what you just how many inches you left? I'm supposed to do this before. This is half inch. You add this up. Here. You come to the West. This is one each additive book. Replacing parts are joined together. I'm supposed to have before. Please ignore that is all for that. 8. Cutting Out The Offshoulder Pattern: So you go ahead. The neck. You open up. Careful. Front. Drop this cliff. 9. Drafting The Offshoulder Sleeve: A green I had dropped the sleeve, the sleeve chain. The first thing you do is to get the lengths of your sleeve. The length of your sleep, Dylan told is still wet I'm using here is ten inches. The length of this live. I'm using ten inches plus one inch seam allowance. Joined together. We are done with tardiness would do is to look for this clip cap heights. For you to get your, your sleeve. Cap height. You need to know the boss, your boss, Sacco, France. Both circumference divided by two off close one inch. Both circumference. Now I'm using here is 38, That's a divided by 12 is 3.166 plus one inch. Give me four points. One, that is the sleeve cap height. Okay. Then you measure, measure its use five, depends on measurements. So 4.14 to make it 4.2. Then I joined the points together. That is this sleeve cap heights. Both circumference divided by 12 plus one inch. That is all yours, those Cliff cap heights. The next thing we need to look for the harm WHO links, okay? We want to calculate the lengths. For you to calculate the length, you need to know your boss circumference. Also. You're both circumference divided by six plus 1.5. The both circumference is my boss circumference is that it's a divided by six plus 1.5 will give me 8.3 inches. Measure 8.3 inches. At this line. The sleeve cap heights, you measure 8.3.3 is around here. That's 8.3 plus 0.5 is allowance. We are done with that. Now want to calculate our width. The width, the width. From the top of your sleeve Mark de. You've already marked that. Okay. Your posts, your round shoulder measurements minus your own posts measurements minus your APA boss measurements. The run short ice 44 inches minus 35. Give you nine. Sorry, I'm not going to publish. Your shoulder measurements minus your elbows. Apart. Both measurements, which is 44 minus 35, equals to nine inches, okay? Because this fabric is on food, you have to divide it by two. Give you 4.54.5 inches plus off each allowance because you'll be joining me. It's Mach five inch. As you can see. What do you to join this point to this point in the neck. We also brought the neck. I want it to look cough, wanted to look nice. You can also come down by one inch by one inch. Just to cover it. Give it a nice curve. Then you calculate your, your, your, your, your RAS leave. Here I'm using is 1212 divided by two is six inches. 10. Drafting The Offshoulder Sleeve Allowance: So we know once we lived was 11 on half decimal, 0.4.515 to something we looked at the bodies you should do. Then you've joined. That is all for today. 11. Cutting The Offshoulder Sleeve: Ms. I'm ready. 12. Course Conclusion: Congratulations on completing this easy sewing kit course on trucks in an asha that truss. In the course went through how to apply measurement and crabs. If fitting osha that rest and sleep. It cannot comparatively traditional, old fashion. Your own measurements. If you have any questions, comments in the course and I am ready to answer. I have appreciated being your instructor. If you enjoyed this class, please leave a review and check my profile for more causes. This has pretty stellar. See you in the next class. 13. Intro To A Flownce Peplon Pattern: Hello, A, Today I'll be teaching you how to put your perfect flouns peplum. Gonna face it on the sleeve. Also teaching you how to put your prunolin on it perfectly well. 14. 01 Setting Up Measurements : Okay? This is how starts now this is the plain one, this is folded into two. The nesting fold it again to make it into four. You fold it to make it into four, okay? So it's folded into four this way. The next thing you do, you have to draw a four cardinal points. Before you do that, measure the distance between here and here to get the center of it. So you've gotten the center. Okay? Just the center here. The same here. Okay? The same thing. Measure here, you know, then get the center also. But it depends on how you want, how full I want, but this is just the lengths I want. Okay, Join the points to do that, right? Okay. 15. 02 Drafting The Peplon Shape: Like this. Once you are done with that, I'll be starting with sowing cheese. Okay, Join the point. Okay. The next I want to maintain 3 " or 4 " if he can decide to make use of four inch cheese or 3 " all depends on what he wants. So I'll be maintaining 4 " here. Okay. Is how you go about Che. 4 " sitting here for Oh, okay. 16. 03 Cutting Our Your Design: So as soon as you're done with this, the next thing you do, you cut it out. You can see you just go ahead to cut it out. I'm trying to just come see me, my cats just for the line. Okay. When you get here, cut it this way. Just cut it out. 17. 04 Sewing The Design: So this is it. Right. Now what I do, I'm going to join it. I'll join this. To join this. Okay. So you'll pick it this way. This is the right side facing the right side. Okay? Okay. You must teach you. Okay. I'm just joining it. And the same to the other one. As soon as you're done, you open it up. So I want to start joining you. Get a Colin, when you want to add half inch, make it this way. Okay. Just leave half an inch. This is how you sew it. Half an inch? You sew it, it's half an inch. Teach. Okay. I'll find Age won't drag me. Don't drag the cale. So as you can see it has been on the set of the Cole. So you keep doing this until you get to the end. Let's keeping you get to the end. Let's keep doing. Okay, we have got, you have got into the age, so when you are here, cut out the S. Okay, so the next thing you do, as you can see already rolling on his own. Already rolling on his own. You can see what I advise is to not make sure you not, not so that it can relax perfectly well. Just not okay. Just keep watching. So the essence of this, no change just for it to okay. I'm so that when you open it's going to rela, see, It's going to relase. When you open it it's s relax. So once you are done with you go ahead to close the 18. 05 Finalizing The Sewing: We close it up. But because of what I'm going to use it for, I would like to close it from inside. I'm attaching it to a close. I is going to look needs. I'll show you what I want to do. I'll take it back. This way I'm attaching it to a sleeve. So how go, I hate to just teach. Oh, go ahead then make sure I live like 1 " live like 3 ". To turn it something very, if it were to be like a pepalon, I'm going to turn it other way around. Open it, I'm going to show you. What I look more is drag. So no coming games from this series. So what do you bring in and out? I'm going to bring it out. It's going to be a little bit difficult because of this criminal. Okay? You drag it out gradually. Okay? It's a little bit difficult but you just have to bring it out. Okay? You do seem to the other side. So, so you're going to take your time to arrange it. So when you're done with this, the next thing you just take it to your ion to go give it a nice. The next thing I'm going to do this co have to sow, see. Let's show you closely. I can see how neatly I close it. You can see. So I'm going to take it to pressing on. I'll give you the nice phrase, okay? I'll make sure it's relaxed before attaching it to my sleeve. So this is the final look, so I'm going to show you how I'm going to fix it. On the clinal, on the sleeve. Okay. And show that sleeve. So this is exactly I sleek can see how it is. I'm going to teach you how to fix it on the sleeve. 19. 06 Attaching The Peplon: This is exactly where I want to fats going to draw design to it. This is the pattern of the design I want. That's what I'm actually dragging here. Drawing the design that I want for just what I want. Okay, so when I catch here, I'm going to take it a little bit of, I'm going to follow this pattern I'm drawing to make the okay, so let me just see if it's, if the, what I'm using is going to be enough. I'm going to drag in a little bit and come here so it's going to be fuller. Okay, so I'm maintaining this pattern. That is what I'm going to use to do my design. Okay, so I'm going to fix it this way so you can see exactly what I'm doing. So I'll follow the pattern that way. I'm just following the pattern I drew on the sleeve. So if you want to know how I called the sleeve, you can go to my channel. We will see how I call the offer sleeve. I'm an is just to follow the pattern I drew. Well, I'm in you just to follow the pattern my drew. You can decide to draw your own pattern there. All stars. So is I'm going to take you round. I'm just following the pattern. I've not done anything. You can decide to draw your own pattern. It depends on what you want. But this is the pattern, the design I want. I'm following the pattern. What I've done so far by following the patter. So this is the outcome of the design, you can see. So I'm going to fix it on my hand. I'm going to show you the final, the final look when I fixed it on the clothes to see how it's going to look like. Okay. 20. 07 Final Design: This is the final piece, the finished work. So beautiful. It's so beautiful. It came out very nice. You can also try it and see how it's going to come out because I love to see students doing their work. It's so beautiful. Lovely.