Draping, Pattern Making, Design Elements - advanced techniques to create new designs/ideas: yokes, princess seams, stripes, grainlines, to refine your fashion design skills.
Pattern Making in Fashion Design - PART 2 - Yokes, Stripes.
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Advance Your Pattern Making Skills
Take your patternmaking knowledge to the next level with this course focused on more complex design elements and construction techniques.
What you'll learn:
- ✔️ How to draft and design yokes and princess seams
- ✔️ Techniques for working with stripes and grainlines
- ✔️ How to combine draping and flat pattern methods
- ✔️ Creative approaches to developing new design ideas
Ideal for those who already understand the basics and want to elevate their technical and creative fashion skills.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Transform basic bodice and skirt patterns into new designs
- Master dart manipulation (relocate, eliminate, convert to gathers)
- Create yokes, princess seams, and style lines with intention
- Use grainlines and stripes as design tools—not limitations
- Apply slash-and-spread techniques to add volume and shape
- Combine pattern making + draping to expand your creative process
What’s Included
- Yoke design (bodice + skirt) using drafting & draping
- Dart manipulation (shift, eliminate, convert to shirring)
- Princess seam development and variations
- Slash-and-spread methods for adding fullness
- Working with 1-dart and 2-dart bodices
- Grainlines & stripe direction as design elements
- Control notches and pattern communication
- Introduction to design elements (balance, proportion, structure)
- Real demonstrations using muslin and dress form
Let your designs evolve with precision and style!
See you in class.