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Easy Sewing Kit: Learn To Measure For Dressmaking, Trousers and Pants

teacher avatar Stella JB Fashion, Fashion Designer and Patternmaker

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Course Introduction

      1:44

    • 2.

      Tape Rule Overview

      4:20

    • 3.

      Tape Rule Units

      2:15

    • 4.

      Chapter 1: Base Measurements

      0:14

    • 5.

      Horizontal and Vertical Measurements

      0:30

    • 6.

      Shoulder Measurement

      0:22

    • 7.

      Upper Bust Measurement

      0:28

    • 8.

      Bust Measurement

      1:14

    • 9.

      Waist Circumference Measurement

      0:32

    • 10.

      Hip Circumference Measurement

      0:48

    • 11.

      Preparing Vertical Measurements

      1:06

    • 12.

      Back Measurements

      0:35

    • 13.

      Arm Measurement

      0:27

    • 14.

      Arm, Elbow and Wrist Measurements

      7:00

    • 15.

      Chapter 2: Trouser Measurements Overview

      1:36

    • 16.

      Vertical and Horizontal Measurements for Trousers

      0:25

    • 17.

      Waist and Hip Vertical Measurements

      0:45

    • 18.

      Hip, Knee and Ankle Vertical Measurements

      0:50

    • 19.

      Reviewing Vertical Measurements

      0:22

    • 20.

      Horizontal and Circumference Measurements Overview

      0:05

    • 21.

      Waist Circumference Measurement

      0:35

    • 22.

      Hip Circumference Measurement

      1:26

    • 23.

      Thigh Circumference Measurement

      0:45

    • 24.

      Note: Crotch Measurement

      0:17

    • 25.

      Knee Circumference Measurement

      0:34

    • 26.

      Ankle Circumference Measurement

      0:33

    • 27.

      Crotch Measurement

      1:10

    • 28.

      Alternate Crotch Measurement

      0:33

    • 29.

      Alternate Crotch 2 Measurement

      0:26

    • 30.

      Course Conclusion

      0:34

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About This Class

Accurate Measurements are the key to good fashion design. Whether designing dresses, trousers, skirts, shirts and so on for yourself or for a client, you will need to start with quality measurements. And This Easy Sewing Kit Course for Learning Measuring has you covered.

In this course, I teach you the basics to prepare the key measurements vertically and horizontally for your design, so that it will inform an accurate design and a comfortable and stylish fit.

This course begins with teaching you typical dressmaking measurements for horizontal/circumference from the shoulders, busts, hips, thighs and armhole, and continues to the vertical measurements shoulder to bust, shoulder to waist and shoulder to hip. 

In the second part of this course, I teach measurements for trousers including the measurements for the thigh, knee, ankle and crotch.

What you learn:

  • Best technique for measuring for dresses and trousers
  • Alternate methods in getting accuracy
  • Important cues for where to measure
  • How to measure hard spots
  • How to arrange tape rule for best measure
  • How to prepare measurements for dresses and shirts
  • How to prepare measurements for trousers and pants

If you’re ready to begin perfecting your measurements, then see you in lesson 1.

Meet Your Teacher

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Stella JB Fashion

Fashion Designer and Patternmaker

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As an independent fashion designer from Lagos, Nigeria, I have had the privilege of working with major international designers and creating unique, high-quality clothing in the US and around the world. Specializing in women's and children's fashion, my designs blend contemporary Western and African styles to create stunning, one-of-a-kind pieces. Drawing from my extensive experience, I am passionate about teaching aspiring fashion designers the art of crafting quality fashion. Through my courses, I guide students in mastering the basics of fashion design, perfecting their cutting techniques, and working with premium fabrics. Together, we explore the creation of dresses, blouses, trousers, skirts, fascinators, and customized outfits, ensuring every piece is crafted with precision and sty... See full profile

Level: Beginner

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1. Course Introduction : Before you fresh on design, commit to look beautiful. It's most fit for pilot. That is the reason every designers nice upward measurements. Hi, I'm Stella, your instructor for this easy sewing kit class on accurate measuring for fresh on design. Each piece of clotting you will make the request specific measurements. This course shows you in this class for all skewed levels. You will learn the basic of measuring the body and getting key dimensions vertically, horizontally. In second Francis and the protests forms, you will know how to measure the hips, twist the posts, as well as show that to the nipple should be width, and show that to the heap. And finally, you also measure the full length of your trusses, which is the arsine and also the inseam, the crutch, De Tai, the Neil and the ankle. I have found out my pattern infarction over a ticket of ego, which I transformed from your hobbies, an independent designer, making inferences of cows for women should run and cylinders worst and an African styles, make your own fresh on is not always easy. When you truly and getting into the work of a design, say this pressure inspiration, suppress on, in this class. I hope to share that pressure with you in your work at the end of this course. You also be ready to measure for whichever side you need, the relative preference, pressure measuring. Let's go. 2. 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. 3. Tape Rule Units: 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. 4. Chapter 1: Base Measurements: As a fashion designer, you want your clouds to look fitted. The first thing you need to do, make sure your measurement is accurately measured. Now we're touching you on how to have your accurate body measurements. Let's go. 5. Horizontal and Vertical Measurements: The first thing we need to know is now we have two types of measurement. We have the vertical measurements and the horizontal measurement, where we are talking about the horizontal measurement. We are talking about the sack offerings of the width, boast and the heap. When you're talking about the vertical measurement, we are talking about from the shore, That's your nipple, the show that's on the board shoulder to your width. Sure that your heap and all of thoughts. 6. Shoulder Measurement: Now, the first thing you do, you take your shoulder measurement. As you can see, there's a joint here in your shoulder. So that is from one shoe that to the ADA. When you're taking it, you check it from this edge. From this edge, this edge. You take your shoulder measurement this week. Okay. 7. Upper Bust Measurement: Then the next thing you do, you take your APA boss measurements. Now we are taking our horizontal measurements, which is our, the so-called friends. This is the op-amp. Both measurements, you make sure the tip is parallel to the flow kit this week, this is your boss measurement. 8. Bust Measurement: Then the next thing you do, you go to your boss measurements. Make sure you take the full apart of the boasts. The practice where your boss is fuller. You take the measurement there and mature. At the bulb, the measurements, your tip rule is not done. When you're taking It's just want to show you something, okay? When you got to keep your posts measurements, make sure your tip rule is not the sweet. Make sure it's this way. Is framed. Okay? Like this is fam trip this way. Just on this, I'm just showing you how you make sure how you take your boss measurements. Mukesh, your friend this way and he's not going down. That is how to take your boss measurement by ticking the fuller parts of your boss, the full-up parts of your boss. This way. Make sure it's not so tight and it's not to lose. Okay? You make sure these SIP is parallel to the flow. That is how to take your boss measurements. 9. Waist Circumference Measurement: Then you come down to your width measurement, Mitchell, you take the C NOPAT or do narrow part of your width. For you to get an accurate West measurements, you have to tick. Maybe your elastic round your width for you to get the accurate measurements of cake. You wrap your tip round, your wastes. This tweet. Can't see. Your cipro is parallel to the floor. You check your wisdom measurements. 10. Hip Circumference Measurement: When you're setting your hip measurement, make sure you take the full-up parts of your heap 1 second the hip measurements. This way. Down to your *****, your boots, okay. Make sure the tip rule or cipro is not too tight and is not to lose its frame. This step is parallel to the flow. This way. This suite, that is the width measurement, does a width measurement. And the distance between the West and the heap is no more than seven or eight inches. That is one unit to know. 11. Preparing Vertical Measurements: Now we want to take all our vertical measurements. When you are sick, your vertical measurements. You can see a line here that is your shoulder from the Tudor line, you will teach the measurement piece or measurement there. Then take your show that to Nipah measurement. The shoot button nipple measurement of this door of my mod m Here is nine inches. Okay. Then you also take your post measurement when you're taking you on that post measurement ticket this week. Okay, so go down to your wisdom measurement. That is, the shoulder width can hold, you can leave it this week. Make sure you are still holding system and half, okay. That is how you to take your shoulder width measurement, where you should also take the shoulder to hip measurement. You also heard it that way. Then take the shoulder to hip measurement mixture nodes that the distance between your widths and the heap is no more than seven or eight inches. That is out to take it. 12. Back Measurements: Then when you come to the back measurement here, we wanted to take your backlinks the measurements yet. There's always important right on your neck. That is where you're gonna ****, please. Your tip rule. You place it this week and you'd sick. You'd sit your back measurements. The suite. That is how to take the buck measurements. And I noticed something where you are taking the buck measurement. The front measurement is like one inch higher than the back measurements. 13. Arm Measurement: Is how to take your measurement. When you want to take your Hm-hm measurements, you check around your armpits. Mixture is not two types. That's when you originally your hands, you freely raise the hands and it shouldn't be too tight. That is why you have to make it loose. I to be free. That is how to take your handbook measurements. As you can see. 14. Arm, Elbow and Wrist Measurements: Hello. Today I will be teaching you on how to take your measurements, the full length of her. Well, before we start, we need to introduce some part of it for loop. You will see here, yeah, he's shorter. This, you can see this pack that I am tying is your Pi sets. This is your elbow, easier for harm? Ya is where you want to take the cap height. Your cap height, you know, is stashing from your shoulder. This part that is why I tidy so that you will know where to stop that. When you look at this joint, it like this, like the visual hearing your hump way, you check it your seat. You can take to meet their families and kids are tricky. You want to take your measurements. You can see this tip, this tip there in kids, you're taking yourself. What do you do? You place it here in your shoulder, your shoulder measurements, your shoulder. This point, this important here, just place it here. Nazis, when my hands as true. Reading six. By the way, you stretch your hands. White-noise reading five. So this is how to take the your cup heights. You have to stretch your hands. Went to Qing dispatch, this is five inches, but when you put it down, you see is around 6.5. Let's say six around the body. Fats on you have to lift your hands up. Any measurement you see they're easier. What your cup heights, That's how to take your cap height. Now we are talking now want to check where you wanted to check your dearest live. You can google ahead to do that. Same one. We wanted to tick the roster of this part. Goes Go ahead. Okay. See you Take it up. No. You just take the measurement there. Right now. One takeaway you want to take, want to talk about the height, the full length, you already towards the cap height. That was white. Stuff here. You're close it this way. Where you want to take your book. This is how you do it. The length here. You want to seek out, depends on how linked you won't let, you won't, but you make sure your hands are this week. For this week, That's how to take whichever lunch you want to take you saw depends on board. Make sure you are bending your heads this week. You are typically your full length. Same thing applies. Just the kid deletes any lunch you want. That is how you're gonna afford it. Now what we want to take the phaco friends, I wanted to take the second phrase. Depends on the length of the address you want. I'm using my right Now. You will take maybe I wanted the length to stop here. Tickets wanted to be too tied, going to be loose, or mature. One hand is just inside. Depends where you want. This first histo so you can sort them to the length here. Enhance your ERPO SAT conference. You still have to bend it this way. You have to bend it. Bend. We want to take the airborne measurements. What I do, you have to bend gap parts. You bend it and take your measurements. You have to bend it this way. I take your measurements, just take your measurement that we symptom you may want to take for your bicep by odd ratio. I don't make my legs they don't even let me get here because but it's time your measurements gets here. It doesn't give you free. You are not free to raise your hands. It's dystopia makes you uncomfortable. Is it a, you take it off by one? H. Zulu is fine. Day you take your measurement the upper, Mr. Mitchell. You twist your hands this way. We want to take your for your for harm. You took the bigger part of their parts. You can see the biggest part is so you take the measurement, Measurements symptoms. We can see two fold your hands is we just take your measurement that we wanted to see what I'm Jane. Just take your measurement. When you come to do the risks also, check your measurement. Take your measurements. Can see it's free nodes. You also take your measurement here when you want to take your hand measurement here, make sure you fold your hands this way. This one this week. You tick. It's why you're taking this, because you can't just leave it. Because if you leave it, you say you will be able to pull it off. That's why you have to take this measurement here. Make it easier when you are pulling where you will put your address. Because the emphysema hand you made to make sure it's can go freely. Make sure it can go freeway, you're measuring. It, can go freely. 15. Chapter 2: Trouser Measurements Overview: In this lesson, I'll be teaching you on how to measure accurate Pinterest. Before then, there's some rules that you need to know. Once your measurement, you need to stand firm. You don't have to twist this way or stand. And how you need to stand firm. Its fandom. Another thing, some people don't even know where to start. So the altruism measurement we add the width should be four. For the sake of those people that don't know where they're supposed to be. You can also new edition sweep from your actual wastes. When we did the body measurements from the actual width, that is the from the tiniest, be the narrowest part of your width. From there, you can come down by two inches, then you will know where your W2 Stan or Beta Stu can actually client to tell you where she normally put as kid we as cat platform. That is where it starts your widths, that is where you take your wisdom measurement, okay? And another thing uses some trusses when they are drafting it. I'm gonna tell you on that later. You will see that on my, on my drafting, how to draft choices. Some people, we haven't so much fabric here. That is because they did take the crutch measurement correctly. In this case, I'm going to teach you different ways of getting your debts of your crops or your crotch lengths, okay? 16. Vertical and Horizontal Measurements for Trousers : Now I want to start from OEM a vertical measurements. You feel like you're also start from your result, a measurement that is the second phrase of your measurement. I'm talking about the second French, what I mean, the width second phrase, the hip circle friends, design. Second frame, your new sacral friend, then your uncool sac and friends. I now want to start from the vertical measurements. 17. Waist and Hip Vertical Measurements: This is our whisk, our width is starting from year. You took your measurement from the widths. Now on step from the West's heap, we always, there's something we call this. The width. Distance between the width and the heap is no more than 78 or nine inches. Range. Like for me, I use my width on my hip is eight. For some is nine. Why some can be severed? From your width? You will check. You already knew the distance, you will know you just jotting, you should know is the discussion of the modern, it's nine. 18. Hip, Knee and Ankle Vertical Measurements: From the width to your new measurements, then you take it down to your full length. Okay. There's a bone here, your comp when you get to that bone, come down by one inch, it gets to take your full measurement. Otherwise, maybe your client said he wants metric, get down. That is also 4s2 out to get it for the, for the sake of those people that after measuring their clients, they did remember to measure the new measurement. You can also get your new measurement by the stand between your legs. The distance between the crosslinked to your full length divided by two. When you divide the way you get the midpoint, then come up by two inches. You can also get your new measurement, Troodon Mitchell. 19. Reviewing Vertical Measurements: Now we've already taking all our vertical measurement. I'm going to repeat it again. From your width. The hip, That's the distance between the West and the heap. Okay, Then to your new measurement, you check your new measurement. Then checking down to your full, the full length of your trusses. 20. Horizontal and Circumference Measurements Overview: And I want to check all our CEC of friends. You starting from your waist circumference. 21. Waist Circumference Measurement: Where the width of your trust, trust is cut from. That is where he was catechizing your wisdom measurements. You take your wisdom measurement. Measurement. Make sure it's not too tight, not too loose. When you're taking your wisdom measurement, the width measurements of this door. He's not true. Titan, few actual your clients. You can see this is truancy. 22. Hip Circumference Measurement: When you're done with that, you come to do hip measurement. Make sure you tick. We're measuring the hip measurement. Take the full height of the heap. The full-up parts of the hip. Range it very well. I want to show you something. We're taking the measurement sick, the book, measurement like this. As you can see. You can see it. Make sure he's like this at the back. That's just what I wanted to show you. That is the flat part. As you can see, how to check the hip measurement, the full-up parts of the heap. That is where you take the hip measurements. 23. Thigh Circumference Measurement: So when you are done with that, you come to the tie, the fuller parts of your type. That is where you take the measurements. This way. Is a fabric day stretchy. Can just tick no mouth, don't. You don't need to leave any allowance. Just take hits. Don't make it lose. Ticky tight because it's a stretch of where fabric when you are checking it is when you took it that way, even though your client's interested BTS size. But if it's a fabric there is no stretching. Make sure after all your measurements at one inch to eat or half an inch for East. 24. Note: Crotch Measurement: You've taken this product, lest I forget, I wanted to teach ASL in the crutch omit the crotch measurements will be learned, but it's part of the Vatican measurements. But I wanted to take my time to explain the crotch measurements, how to take the measurement. 25. Knee Circumference Measurement: Welcome to your new measurement. You also check it this way. Notes, when taking this part is either you make it free. This way. By the time your clients is twisting the leg this way is bending this week, it will not be too tight or bet as to when you are taking the measurement. Just tell your client short leg this way. You can take the ankle measurement. Right? It turned depression July, this is not going to be too tight in this area. 26. Ankle Circumference Measurement: When it comes to the outcome measurement, is either you take it this way, metric lose. You measure it this way. You do. You take it off from this part here? You will do us if we want to remove it. Like this way, when you measure you like this, you take the measurements there. There's actually check the anchor measurements. 27. Crotch Measurement: In Situ on how to take your crotch measurement. You can take it in so many ways, whichever method that is best for you, you use. Part of the vertical measurement key. From here. From the width you come this way. This is number one on how to take your crotch measurements. You can take it like this. This is number one. And the second parts. The other practicum measure from your outside. The difference between your team and your acing. This is what we are talking about. The art symbol simply means that the full length of your choices, what we're talking about the interesting. So your Ipsum is starting from here. You take your measurement from, from here, then down to low desired measurement. That is the u for each new a crutch, u minus u minus this for him seeing from your outsourcing, you get your crotch taxes. The second way of getting your crutch measurement. 28. Alternate Crotch Measurement: I'm not sure there is another one, but I don't advise the beginner to do because you see, when you see from here from this man, the impassive true on the head. Then also add the width or the buck. But sometimes it's not very much accurate. I don't use it because it's from here to here. Yeah, he's always shorter from you measured the bucket. Bucket is always longer. I don't advise a beginner's true. Use this measurement. 29. Alternate Crotch 2 Measurement: The next method is sitting down on the flat chair. This way. You take the measurement from your W2, from the West measurements down, this way, down to the flats, to the surface of this chip. That is out to your crotch measurements. That's another way of taking a crutch measurements. 30. Course Conclusion: Congratulations on completing this easily swayed killed course on second acronym regiments in costs. We went through how to measure the probability. You cannot comfortably make your own literally fitting designs, conflict measurements. If you have any questions, comments in the course, and I am happy to answer. I have appreciated by your instructor, if you enjoyed this class, please leave a review and check my profile for more courses. This has been so tell us, see you in the next class.