Design-It-Yourself Clothes: Patternmaking SimplifiedIf you’ve ever watched Project Runway and wished you were a contestant, or you’re simply ready to take your sewing to a new level, Design-It-Yourself Clothes teaches you the fundamentals of modern patternmaking so that you, too, can create your own inspired clothing. Until now, the aspiring DIY fashionista has been hard-pressed to find self-teaching tools other than dry textbooks or books with outdated looks. Finally, in Design-It-Yourself Clothes, former Urban Outfitters designer Cal Patch brings her youthful aesthetic to a how-to book. If you want to wear something you can’t find on store racks and make clothes that express your individual style, or if you’ve reached a sewing plateau and want to add pattern drafting to your repertoire, Design-It-Yourself Clothes is the book you have been waiting for. In five key projects (each with four variations)–a perfect-fitting dress, T-shirt, button-down shirt, A-line skirt, and pants–Patch shares the art of patternmaking. At its core, it’s much simpler than you think. Patch covers everything an intermediate sewer needs to know in order to become a fabulous fashion designer, from designing the patterns, taking your own measurements, and choosing fabrics to actually sewing the clothing. You will also learn how to stylize patterns by using darts, waistbands, patch pockets, and ruffles. Patch offers tips, explanations, options, and exercises throughout that will make the design process that much easier. But besides showing you how to create clothing from scratch, she also teaches you how to rub off patterns from existing clothing–so if you have a pair of pants that you love but are worn out, or you have your eye on a piece in the store with a prohibitive price tag, you can figure out how to get the looks you want by using your own two hands. |
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angle armhole back pattern back skirt Basic Shirt basting bias bias tape bottom edge bust carbon paper Center Front CF and/or CB circumference collar cuff cutting instructions dart double-turned drafting draw a line drawstring dress edgestitch extension fold French curve French seams front and back front shirt garment grain line hemline high shoulder point key measurements knit LABEL AND TRUE Label your pattern length mark muslin neck width Notch overedge zigzag pant pattern pattern piece front PATTERN PIECES Label patternmaking piece of paper pieces with CF pintucks placket PLOT raw edges right sides facing rise seam ruffle ruler perpendicular self-fabric serger SEWING INSTRUCTIONS shape shoulder seam side seam line skirt pattern slash sleeve cap spandex step stitch straight stretch stitch style name T-shirt tape measure top edge Topstitch trace TRUE YOUR PATTERN twill tape underarm seam underlap waist line waistline wrist yoke seam zipper