Duration of the online course: 2 hours and 24 minutes
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Turn your design ideas into patterns you can cut, sew, and fit with confidence. This free online course is built for beginners who want a clear, practical pathway into fashion pattern making, without needing prior drafting experience. You’ll learn how to translate body measurements into accurate foundation blocks and understand why small changes on paper make a big difference in how a garment sits on the body.
Starting with essential bodice drafting, you’ll develop the front and back blocks and gain a solid grasp of adjustment methods so your patterns work for different shapes. From there, you’ll move into skirt construction and fitting considerations, then expand your skills with sleeve drafting, including how cap height and ease affect mobility and appearance. These core techniques help you diagnose common fit issues and refine your patterns rather than guessing at solutions.
As you progress, you’ll build strong pattern control through dart manipulation and design applications. Understanding how to move, split, combine, and reshape darts unlocks endless styling options while maintaining fit. You’ll also explore style lines such as princess seams, learn how added fullness changes silhouette and drape, and apply structural details like yokes and flanges in a way that looks intentional and professional.
The course also introduces contouring guides, a powerful approach to shaping garments neatly around the body while reducing unwanted excess fabric. You’ll learn how these guides influence design decisions and help create cleaner lines in finished garments. Finally, you’ll broaden your drafting range with multiple collar styles, including classic shirt collars and distinctive variations, along with troubleshooting guidance for achieving a comfortable, well-balanced neckline.
Whether you want to sew better-fitting clothes for yourself, start building a portfolio, or strengthen professional skills in fashion and sewing, this course gives you a practical foundation you can reuse on many projects. By the end, you’ll be equipped to draft, adjust, and develop patterns with a clearer understanding of fit, structure, and garment design.
Video class: Front basic bodice block for beginners/ class-1 / pattern making
02m
Video class: back basic bodice block for beginners/ class-2/ How to adjust the pattern?
03m
Video class: How to draft basic skirt pattern/ class-3/ fitting the skirt
02m
Video class: How to draft basic sleeve pattern?/ class-4/ explain the difference between cap height
02m
Video class: How to Increase or Decrease the Biceps and Cap Ease? / class-5 / pattern making
01m
Video class: Dart Manipulation/ part-1/Single Dart Series/class-6/step by step tutorial for beginners
02m
Video class: Dart Manipulation /part-2/Two Dart Series/class-7/step by step tutorial for beginners
03m
Video class: Designing with Darts/ 6 types of darts/ class-8/ pattern making for beginners
06m
Video class: Stylelines or Princess line /class-9/ pattern making for beginners
03m
Video class: added fullness/ class-10/ pattern making classes for beginners
02m
Video class: YOKES/ CLASS-11/ PATTERN MAKING FOR BEGINNERS
02m
Video class: FLANGES / CLASS-12 / PATTERN MAKING FOR BEGINNERS
04m
Exercise: What is a flange in the context of fashion pattern making?
Video class: Pin Tucks and Pleat Tucks/ Class-13/ pattern making for beginners
03m
Exercise: What is one of the methods for creating tucks in garment design?
Video class: PATTERN CONTOURING GUIDES/ CLASS-14/ pattern making for beginners
05m
Exercise: Which guideline is specifically intended to reveal cleavage between the busts by eliminating excess fabric?
Video class: Design using contour guides part-1/ class-15/ pattern making for beginners
05m
Video class: Design using contour guides part-2/ class-16/ pattern making classes
06m
Video class: Basic shirt collar pattern/ fit problem of the collar with solution/ class-17/ patternmaking classes
05m
Video class: peter pan collar / class-18 / step by step tutorial/ pattern making for beginners
04m
Video class: sailor collar pattern / class-19 / pattern making tutorial
04m
Video class: Mandarin collar( Chinese collar) / class- 20/ pattern making for beginners
06m
Exercise: What is a characteristic of a mandarin collar?
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Course comments: Fashion Pattern Making classes
Dora Eyiah Sekyi
I don’t know how to draft the basic sleeve pattern
Nazmul Clan
its good courses and easy way to understand.