Pattern Making for Fashion Design - beginner's guide

Would you like to make clothes that actually fit you? Or do you want to design, and realise your own patterns? Then learn the techniques of pattern drafting with your own measurements to create paper patterns that fit your body perfectly.

This is a practical organised guide aim to teach you the fundamentals of Pattern drafting from scratch, by creating your own bespoke block or sloper. The starting point of fashion designing is drafting a basic sloper pattern. Basic slopers are the foundation and template of every outfit you have ever seen and you are about to start creating.

What you'll learn

Create your own bespoke patterns

Learn to take body measurements correctly

Draft your own basic block/sloper from scratch

Use your own bodice sloper/block for garment construction

This guide is for you if you ...

Love sewing

Make your own clothes

Fashion Students or designer

Dress Maker

Tailor or seamstress

Patternmaking for Fashion Design - beginner’s guide will guide you through the process of learning the basics of drafting the basic block or sloper block.

What is a parttern? A regular and intelligible form or sequence in the way in which something happens or is done. That can be replicated over and over.

Is a method of putting together a basic structure from scratch? That is using your own body measurement or that of a friend to create a template for your sewing creative expression by following a set of instructions to create a pattern or style.