DESIGNING CLOTHES WITH THE FLAT PATTERN METHOD: Customize Fitting Shells to Create Garments in Any Style

Sara Alm

Creative Publishing International, Minneapolis, USA

Year 2017

Pages 527

Learn how to customize your clothes – designing new pattern shapes, style lines, and fashion details with author’s easy-to-follow instructions. In this book sewers learn a technique that opens up myriad possibilities for making one-of-a-kind garments. By using basic pattern blocks called slopers, the author shows sewers how to design new shapes, style lines, and fashion details – creating patterns for nearly any piece of clothing they want to sew. The options are endless once sewers understand the basics of flat-pattern designing, which is explained in the book and divided into sections: skirts, tops, and pants. As soon as sewers know how to design from these three slopers, that knowledge is easily transferred to designing dresses, shorts, jumpsuits, and outerwear. The principles and techniques taught are also easily transferable to designing children’s clothes.