3 DAY COURSE
SEP 26, OCT 3, 10 | SAT 2pm-6pm
MASTER THE SKIRT BLOCK: 3-Day Pattern Making & Fitting Intensive
AGE 18 plus | $599+tax (Supplies included)
Learn the art of precision pattern drafting and turn your custom measurements into a perfectly fitted skirt block (sloper). Across three hands-on days, you will learn how to take accurate body measurements, draft a foundation pattern from scratch, construct a fitting muslin (toile), and manipulate pattern slopers into popular skirt styles.
By the end of this intensive course, you will take home your own reusable acrylic or poster board master pattern block, tailored to your exact measurements.
OCT 17, 24, 31 | SAT 2pm-6pm
MASTER THE PANT BLOCK 3-Day Pattern Making & Fitting Intensive
AGE 18 plus | $599+tax (Supplies included)
Conquer the trickiest garment in pattern making! Drafting and fitting pants requires a deep understanding of body geometry, crotch depth, and balance lines. In this intensive, 3-day hands-on course, you will learn how to take key lower-body measurements, draft a customized pant sloper (block) from scratch, execute critical fit adjustments, and manipulate your master sloper into distinct trousers styles.
You will leave with a perfected, durable pant master pattern tailored to your unique frame giving you the ultimate foundation to design endless pant styles that fit flawlessly every time.
NOV 7, 14, 21 | SAT 2pm-6pm
MASTER THE BODICE BLOCK: 3-Day Pattern Making & Fitting Intensive
AGE 18 plus | $599+tax (Supplies included)
The bodice block is the foundation of upper-body garment design, serving as the starting point for tops, dresses, jackets, and corsetry. Across three days, you will learn to translate 3D upper-body proportions into a precise 2D master pattern block (sloper).
You will cover body measurement protocols, draft front and back bodice slopers with sleeve foundations, fit a fabric toile, and master essential dart manipulation techniques to turn your base block into custom designs.
NOV 28 DEC 5, 12 | SAT 2pm-6pm
MASTER THE DRESS BLOCK: 3-Day Pattern Making & Fitting Intensive
AGE 18 plus | $599+tax (Supplies included)
Bring bodice and skirt fundamentals together into a seamless full-length dress block. The dress sloper forms the core template for sheath dresses, A-line silhouettes, shirtwaists, and empire designs. Across three days, you will learn to draft a unified front and back dress foundation, balance torso-to-hip proportions, fit a full-length fabric toile, and apply style variations.
You will leave with a permanent tagboard dress master pattern tailored to your precise measurements, ready to serve as the blueprint for endless custom dress designs..