Fashion Draping with Mood Fabrics by Benjamin Mach

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Intermediate | 2 hours 21 min

Taught by Benjamin Mach

One of the easiest garment styles to drape is a simple skirt. Starting with a yard of muslin and your dress form, Benjamin teaches this foundational lesson in marking, measuring, and draping fabric on your dress form. You’ll learn pro tips on smoothly pinning out your fabric to avoid twists and puckers, and then how to take your skirt front and back and transfer them to paper pattern pieces.

Chapters

Series overview01:11

Materials01:09

Preparing the dress form04:41

Skirt Front
Draping the skirt front12:11
Truing the skirt front03:27

Skirt Back
Draping the skirt back09:55
Truing the skirt back02:37

Creating Pattern Pieces
Transferring skirt front from muslin to paper11:37
Transferring skirt back from muslin to paper07:25

Materials

Here’s what you’ll need:

Muslin (approximately 1 yard per garment)

Pattern paper

Draping tape

Pattern weights

French curve

Measuring tape

Right-angled triangle ruler

2"-wide clear gridded flexible ruler (optional)

Pins

Tracing wheel

Transfer paper

Sharpie marker

Marking pencil

Fabric shears

Paper scissors

Dress form

Sewing machine

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Fashion Draping with Mood Fabrics

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Draping a Skirt

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Draping a Bodice

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Once you’ve mastered the basic skirt pattern, you’re ready to try your hand at a contoured bodice. Benjamin demystifies this process, showing you how to fit a flat piece of fabric to the neck and armhole, and effortlessly apply bust and waist darts. As with the skirt, he also shows you how to mark up your muslin and transfer it to a paper pattern with tracing paper.

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Draping a Dress

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In this final part, Benjamin puts together our skirt and bodice lessons to show how to drape a simple dress. Best of all, he then shows how to sew the muslin together for a test fitting. Once you’ve completed this final class, you’ll be ready to start creating your own line of garments, customizing them as you see fit.

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