Kenneth D. King

Designing Details: Pockets

Kenneth D. King
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Meet your instructor and get to know the basics of pocket placement.
Pocketless pattern? No problem! Learn how to expertly integrate pockets onto any paper pattern.
Learn how to draft a patch pocket onto your pattern, complete with pleats.
Now that you've drafted your patch pocket, learn how to construct it on your garment.
If you prefer a single-welt pocket over a patch pocket, learn how to draft one for your pattern in this lesson.
After drafting, learn how to construct your pocket by pinning, pressing and attaching the pocket bag.
Install your pockets by transferring, cutting and sewing interfacing, positioning and pinning, then attaching.
Learn how to stitch around the welt and design a horizontal double-welt pocket.
Construct the welt unit and apply your welt to the garment, then add a pocket bag and finish your pocket.
Learn how to construct a vertical double-welt pocket.
Learn how to install, shorten and finish a zippered pocket.
 
 
11 Lessons
3  hrs 54  mins

Deftly designed and expertly constructed pockets are essential for every fine garment sewer’s repertoire, and with Kenneth as your guide, you’ll master these skills. Start by sharpening your design eye with a strategy for auditioning different types of pockets and choosing the style and size that complements your pattern best. Then, Kenneth will help you integrate your pocket design into the body pattern and draft your pocket pattern pieces. With Kenneth’s guidance, go step-by-step through constructing and finishing seven styles of pockets: regular and pleated patch pockets, shaped and rectangular welt pockets, as well as horizontal, vertical and zippered variations on his foolproof double-welt pocket.

Kenneth D. King

Kenneth D. King is a Manhattan-based custom couture designer whose work can be found in the wardrobes of celebrities such as Elton John and Geena Davis. He shares his vast knowledge of construction and patternmaking as an author, contributing editor to Threads magazine and much-loved instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and right here on Bluprint.

Kenneth D. King

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