Intermediate
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1 hour 51 sec
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00:55
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01:58
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14:39
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10:53
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06:31
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05:40
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10:26
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09:49
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Taught by Sanae Ishida
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Sewing your own clothing is incredibly empowering and even more so when you've designed a clothing pattern customized to your unique body. The foundation of drafting patterns is a sloper, also known as a "block," which is a 2D version of your 3D shape. Author, illustrator, and designer Sanae Ishida teaches you how to draft your own front and back upper body slopers by taking your measurements, transferring them to Swedish tracing paper, making the slopers, and checking the fit of the slopers by sewing a muslin. She also demonstrates how to create an optional bust dart. Once you've completed your upper body slopers, you'll have the tools you need to draft patterns for shirts, coats, and dresses.
Learn how to:
Here’s what you’ll need:
- For the slopers: Drafting kit (Swedish tracing paper or large pieces of paper, ruler, pencil)
- French curve
- Cear gridded quilting ruler
- Marking tools
- Full length mirror
- Masking or artist tape
- PDF for measuring chart
- Measuring tape
- Scissors for paper
- Seam gauge
- Elastic
- Necklace
- For the muslin - several yards of fabric
- Sewing machine
- Thread
- Seam ripper
- Sewing gauge
- Scissors
- Fabric shears
- Pins
- Chalk
- Pattern weights
- Snips
- Iron and ironing surface
Downloads:
- Draft a torso sloper with tracing paper
- Sew a torso muslin
- Take measurements of your body
- Troubleshoot fit issues
- Make a bust dart
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Draft and Sew a Torso Sloper and Muslin Reviews
132 users recommended this class to a friend
Nancy Hollo
She went slowly enough to understand each step and kept it simple.
2 days ago
Adrianne Miller
I'm enjoying it so far, I think this course (and I have the book too) is a more approachable method for a beginner learning how to draft. There are other teachers here on CreativeBug that are good too. This is the class I've decided to start with.
However, just a tip: I'm in the process of drafting the back sloper, and when I went to match it to the front sloper, I realized that the armhole depth needs to be measured from the shoulder slope depth, not the neck/shoulder point.
I may have the terminology off, but you did warn us while drafting the front sloper, in both the class and in the book. But you don't remind us again when we are doing the back sloper, lol.
So you can just guess what I did, and my slopers didn't match. But I eventually caught the error...and am correcting the armhole depth now.
My only other feedback is that, though you were definitely very inclusive with the models that you used in the photos, it would have been good to see some examples of what the slopers could or should look like if you are a woman with lots of curves.
I'm average sized, but very full busted. So my sloper looks quite a bit different than your example. And darts were a necessity, though I will later learn how to manipulate them out for certain styles.
December 26
Susanna Kleinubing
Very informative and thorough. Great teacher and class!
More than 3 months ago
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