Imagine what it’s like to be able to make designs for yourself or for a specific person/client.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to take measurements, whether it’s of your dress form, or of yourself, or a customer, this course will teach you how to do that, step-by-step, both for a Bodice and for a Skirt.

This Course is for a large variety of “students” — firstly, it is for beginners who want to learn how to draft a Basic Bodice, and a Basic Skirt. It is also for intermediate designers who want to learn how to measure a body, or dress form, and draft a pattern to fit specific measurements. It is also for advanced designers who want to make “made-to-order” designs to fit specific customers.

In this Course you will learn:

How to draft a Basic Bodice (Front and back), from scratch using specific measurement.
How to draft a Skirt (Front and Back), from scratch using specific measurements.
How to measure a Dress Form, or Yourself, or a Client, and draft a basic pattern.
Learn how to "True Darts", using a tracing wheel on pattern paper.
I have also included a very basic general concept of Pattern Grading.
...and some additional bonus videos...

No prerequisites for the Course.

Tools needed: tape measure, pattern paper, pencil, ruler, tracing wheel, scissors, french curve and/or hip curve. A Dress Form would be helpful.

Why is it beneficial to learn how to draft by measurements?: Power. It’s empowering knowing that you can learn to make outfits that fit YOU, or being able to make design for a specific person.

This Course if the foundation for my other Pattern Making Courses: it all starts with drafting a basic bodice and skirt. From this Course you can then enroll in my Pattern Making 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.

I use a Dress Form as a "body" to measure" and use those measurements to draft a pattern(s).

My courses are about learning how to be a great fashion designer; whether you are a beginner student or a professional fashion designer, learning skills and techniques in designing is an ongoing process: there’s always something new to learn, even if you know basic fashion design techniques, building on top of that is essential to expand your knowledge of the industry at large.

Nowadays learning fashion designing online is such an amazing opportunity: you can study fashion in the comfort of your own home, at your own pace, having full lifetime access. Save on the cost of hight tuition, instead learn by watching these high quality videos, which you can rewind and watch over and over again, on your own schedule, at affordable cost.

Learning Fashion Sketching, and Fashion Draping and Pattern Making (Pattern Drafting) or if you want to explore The Business of Fashion, and learn the business side of fashion, or learning how to put a Fashion Collection together and learning the use of Fabrics and the Textile Industry, these Courses are an amazing opportunity to expand your knowledge, elevate you fashion skills, and add to your existing body of work.

Whether making clothes is a hobby of yours or a financial income generator, these courses empower you to build your confidence and make you a better designer. Regardless whether you are putting together your first fashion design portfolio, or build your fashion website, or learn how to market your fashion line, these courses give you the ability to accomplish all that especially because you will be saving on expensive tuition costs.

Jowanna Ramdeen

Fashion Illustrator and Fashion Designer

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