For this class, students will draft their own bodice pattern.

Materials:

Width of paper to be used: hip measurement divided by 4 plus 1 inch dart measurement plus seam allowance that is the biggest part of your body measurement is used to get the amount or the width of paper or fabric

Width of paper: 40/4 + 1+ 2= 13

Depth of paper: 26"(25”+1” allowance) or longer depth brown paper

Tools:

Scissors
Marker
Tape Rule
Ruler
Curve Ruler or French Ruler

Measurements:

Shoulder: 16"

Waist: 32"

Bust: 38"

Hip: 40"

Nipple to Nipple: 9.5"

Shoulder to Underbust: 12.5

Shoulder to waist: 17

Shoulder to hip:25”

Instructions:

Note: You can use the measurements provided above or add your own complete set as above. You will be drawing on the wrong(inner) side of the paper or fabric.

See diagram for visual location of lines, and adjust dimensions if you have your own measurements.

Front panel: Fold and cut this panel from drafting paper sheet to get a 26” x 13” sheet (from your measurements or the measurement above), cut out the excess
Back panel: Fold and cut this panel from drafting paper sheet to get a 26” x 14.5” sheet (from your measurements or the measurement above), cut out the excess
Back panel zip allowance: From the center of the fold, mark out a 1.5” line down from shoulder to the hip
From the shoulder line, take the bust point
Also from the shoulder line, take the waist line and the hip line measurement. All those measurements are your vertical measurements, go ahead and rule the line. Then label the lines for clarification
Draft the neckline from the shoulder line using the neck width and neck depth
Draft the shoulder slope, marking 1” down from the shoulder line
Draft the shoulder depth or length
Draft the armhole
Drafting the horizontal measurements -- the bust, waist and hip measurement
Draft the waist dart
Draft the bust dart
Measure and draft the back panel measurements for neck line, arm hole and waist dart
1. for basic exercise draw over the front panel pattern with different marker
2. for advanced exercise, trace the front panel measurements on the back and add only new neck line, arm hole and waist dart.
Carefully cut out front and back panels
1. For basic exercise, cut out back panel pattern out of all panels at once, then separate front panel and cut out front panel pattern
2. For advanced exercise, you can cut out each panel separately

Advanced:

Trace out the bodice pattern with back neck and arm hole lines on the back panel sheets.

Rebecca Ikediugwu

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