Learn essential fashion design skills alongside acclaimed instructor Judy Jackson. Discover the secrets to successful drafting for knit fabrics with different amounts of stretch. Use professional techniques to drape and fit a torso sloper complete with any darts you need. Create a custom sleeve sloper and adapt it with gathered, puffed or raglan sleeves. Modify your basic torso pattern for a variety of garments and add sophistication with decorative seams and custom shaping. Draft basic necklines and variations complete with trim patterns: crewnecks, scoop necks and more! Make personalized patterns for cozy, trendy knit pants. Plus, tame high-stretch fabrics as you create a sloper for perfect-fitting leggings. Use your new skills and discover how to make a T-shirt pattern as well as patterns for tops, dresses, pants and leggings!
Class Sessions
Introduction to Knit Patternmaking
34:14
Meet patternmaker, theater costumer and fashion design instructor Judy Jackson and learn about the techniques she'll cover in class. Judy begins with a thorough overview of knit fabrics, and what to take into consideration when working with different amounts of stretch. Next, explore ways to adapt patterns for woven fabrics into knit-friendly patterns.
The Knit Torso Sloper
41:42
Explore professional techniques for draping a knit torso sloper, fitting it properly and transforming your measurements into a flat pattern that will work beautifully with the fabric you've selected. Judy walks you through the entire process of translating a three-dimensional torso into a two-dimensional pattern, explaining how to take your fabric's stretch into account, add darts if needed, and much more!
The Knit Sleeve Sloper
29:33
Now that the torso sloper is done, you're ready to create a sleeve sloper. Judy offers a user-friendly approach to measuring the arm properly and drafting the sleeve, demonstrating with a model to illustrate tricky measurements and offer troubleshooting tips. Next, you'll see how your initial sloper can be adapted into different sleeve variations, including gathered, puffed, and raglan sleeves.
Adapting Torso Slopers
32:16
Put your new patternmaking skills into action as you experiment with torso sloper adaptations. Judy shares ways to modify your basic sloper for other garments and fabrics, adapting it into a boxier shape for stable knits, an A-line skirt, and even a dress. Along the way, you'll change silhouettes by adding flare, movement and custom shaping, and learn to incorporate decorative seams.
Adapting Necklines
24:07
Let your inner fashion designer run wild as you experiment with neckline variations and make trim patterns to finish them. Draft inserted trim for crewnecks or bound trim for scoop necks, and then discover ways to incorporate gathers, pleats, decorative trims, or any other creative addition you can dream up. Judy shares useful equations for determining the measurements of either neckline you choose to make, and shows you how to account for the stretch of your knit.
The Knit Pants Sloper
23:16
Explore the joys of working with knit pants patterns two ways as Judy shares ways to translate woven pants patterns into ones that will work for your knitwear, and how to draft pull-on pants from your knit skirt sloper. Learn which measurements you'll need, and how to measure each area accurately, as you draft a new sloper for a cozy, loose-fitting pair of knit pants.
The Knit Leggings Sloper
27:32
High-stretch fabrics and close-fitting garments can be intimidating, but Judy shows you everything you need to know to draft a sloper for a customized pair of leggings that will fit perfectly. Select a fabric that will provide the perfect amount of stretch before using Judy's expert step-by-step guidance to measure your legs and draft leggings start to finish. The result will be a professional-level sloper for leggings that will fit you perfectly!
Your Instructor
Judy Jackson
Judy Jackson has been teaching fashion design and theater costuming for more than 30 years. She's an instructor in the fashion departments at City College of San Francisco and Canada College in Redwood City, California, where she enjoys sharing her love of patternmaking, draping and design. Judy is involved in many local theater companies, where she both designs and constructs costumes for the stage. She has also published research in the area of computerized pattern-drafting methods.
Bonus Material
Patternmaking for Knits: Essential Slopers - Supplies
Bonus Materials available for download after purchase.
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