Intermediate
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1 hour 51 sec
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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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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
108 users recommended this class to a friend
Emily Brooks
very well done. right amount of detail.
December 7
Leslie Kelly
this is a great class. Not overly complicated but just comprehensive enough for the home sewist to begin drafting their own patterns and getting better fit on commercial patterns. I am very happy I watched, and plan to watch her other muslin making courses. I made my front muslin already but not the back, so I will tackle that and make the sloper and see how it works for me. I am also glad she gives some "troubleshooting" fit tips as this has always been a problem for me. Hopefully with the guidance she gives, I can make this work for me!
November 6, 2024
Laura Ball
I want to see her use it to make a top
November 2, 2024
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