Pattern Making
PATTERN MAKING I: Basic
Section 1: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Section 2: 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Thursdays. Check calendar for dates. Next class runs Fall 2024.
Duration: 4 weeks
This class lays the groundwork for understanding flat pattern techniques. A basic quarter scale pattern is used to study style, line changes, and structure. Class focuses on the bodice, sleeves, skirts, and pants. The notebook prepared by each student becomes a permanent reference.
MINIMUM ENROLLMENT: 3 students.
COST:$210.00
PATTERN MAKING II: Intermediate
Section 1: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Section 2: 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Thursdays
Duration: 4 weeks
A continuation and review of Pattern Making I. Students work from their notebooks in order to execute the garment from a sketch. The student drafts a blouse/dress, jacket, and pants.
Prerequisite: Pattern Making I.
COST:$210.00
PATTERN MAKING III: GARMENT DUPLICATION
Thursdays
Duration: 4 weeks
Do you have a favorite garment you would like to be able to reproduce? In this class you will make a pattern from a simple garment without taking the garment apart. Students bring an assortment of clothing such as: tee shirts, sweat shirts, elastic waist pants and skirts. The instructor will asses with each student which garments to begin to reproduce based on their order of complexity. Students will end up with a pattern reproduction of their chosen garment.
Prerequisite: Pattern Making I, II.
MINIMUM ENROLLMENT: 4 students
COST:$200.00
PATTERN MAKING: Advanced, Dress or Skirt Design
Wednesdays, or by arrangement with Director
Duration: 4 weeks
Drafting from either a full size sloper or the students personal sloper, students will complete the pattern development for the basic dress to be executed in Advanced Construction Techniques: Dress
Prerequisites: Pattern Making I, II; Personal Pattern Sloper I.
COST:$250.00
PATTERN MAKING: Advanced, Jacket Design
Wednesdays, or by arrangement with Director
Duration: 4 weeks
Drafting from either a full size sloper or the students personal sloper, students will complete the pattern development for the basic notch-collar jacket to be sewn in Advanced Construction: Jacket.
Prerequisite: Pattern Making I, II; Personal Jacket Sloper.
COST:$250.00
PATTERN MAKING: Advanced, Pant Design
Wednesdays, or by arrangement with Director
Duration: 4 weeks
Drafting from either a full size sloper or the students personal sloper, students will complete the pattern development for the basic pants to be sewn in advanced construction: Pant
Prerequisite: Pattern Making I, II; Personal Pattern Sloper I.
COST:$250.00
PATTERN MAKING: Advanced, Shirt Design
Wednesdays, or by arrangement with Director
Duration: 4 weeks
Drafting from either a full size sloper or the students personal sloper, students will complete the pattern development for the basic collared button-up shirt to be sewn in advanced construction: Shirt
Prerequisite: Pattern Making I, II; Personal jacket/blouse sloper.
COST:$250.00
PATTERN GRADING I- Basic/Intermediate
Saturdays: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Duration: 2 consecutive Saturdays
Students learn the changes in body sizes, and how this relates to grading. Students learn to grade a basic pattern by the slash and spread/overlap method and then move to the shift method.
MINIMUM ENROLLMENT: 4 students
COST: 250.00
PATTERN GRADING III- Advanced
Arrange time with Director
Students take their own original pattern pieces, transfer them to tag board, and use the pattern-shifting method to grade a set of production patterns. Students take pattern pieces and grade up to a larger size, and down to a smaller size, thus creating a set of small, medium, and large patterns of their original design.
COST:$200.00
PATTERN DRAFTING: Wovens
See calendar for dates and times.
Students draft a bodice front and back, skirt front and back, and a basic sleeve.
Prerequisites: Pattern Making I, II.
MINIMUM ENROLLMENT: 3 students
COST:$210.00
PATTERN MAKING WITH KNITS: BASIC
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Students master the drafting techniques associated with knit garments. Students draft slopers from basic knit foundations. Students learn how grade the sloper to accommodate various stretch and recoveries of knits.
Pre-requisite: pattern Making 1 and 2, or permission from instructor.
Cost: $210.00
PATTERN MAKING WITH KNITS: INTERMEDIATE
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Students continue to build knitwear slopers for pants and jackets that build on the foundations of Basic drafting.
Pre-requisite: Drafting with knits: Basic .
Cost: $210.00
PATTERN MAKING WITH KNITS: ADVANCED
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Students create block patterns such as basic tees, dresses, leggings, and hoodies based on the slopers and foundations. The patterns can be used in the Sewing with knits series.
Pre-requisite: Drafting with knits: Basic and Intermediate.
Cost: $210.00