The Pattern Drafting Sessions.
Learn to draft your own blocks and bring your creative visions to life
Passionate about sewing and eager to bring your design ideas to life? Join Mallorie for a series of pattern drafting classes focused on the bodice, pants block and dart manipulation.
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Learn how to draft your pants block from scratch and make a pattern that fits you!
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Learn how to manipulate darts to create new styles.
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Dart Manipulation
Participants will explore various dart manipulation techniques using a standard bodice block. They will learn how to move darts, incorporate darts into seams, and transform them into pleats or gathers. The class will cover both the slash-and-spread and pivot methods, enabling participants to create multiple designs from a single block.
By the end of the session, each participant will select one design to construct using fashion fabric.
Class details:
Start date: Sunday, December 1st at 10 am
3 hours/class for 2 weeks
Bring your own bodice block or a pattern that fits you with 4 darts (2 in the front and 2 in the back)
Level: intermediate - you should know how to use a machine and have experience with bodice construction
Draft your Pants
Do you dream of creating perfectly tailored pants that fit? Whether you're a sewing enthusiast or looking to take your fashion skills to the next level, our Pants Drafting Class is designed just for you!
In this class, you’ll learn:
How to take your measurements - lower part of the body
Manipulate drafting rulers
Draft your pants block from scratch
Adjust and make your block fit your body
Class details:
Start date: Sunday, October 20th at 2pm
Schedule: every Sunday afternoons (2 to 4:30) for 4 weeks
Cost: $500
Student level: you should know how to use a machine and have pants construction experience.
About your instructor
Hello, I’m Mallorie! I ventured into fashion and design later in life. One day, about 10 years ago, I was sitting in my office as an assistant basketball coach and I received an email from an art school that wanted to schedule a game. I thought, "Art schools have sports teams?" I went to the school's website and read the logo, "Be Artist, Be Athlete." I thought, "That's me!" I ended up leaving athletics to pursue an MFA in fashion design at the Academy of Art in San Francisco.
After graduating with an MFA in fashion design, I began teaching. I love teaching fashion design. I remember being new to pattern drafting and construction and how challenging it all felt. I often wondered if and when it would get easier. Well, it did and it continues to. There's so much to learn in the field and I still feel giddy when I learn new things.
Here at Studio Sessions, I hope to break down more complex processes so that they are digestible and exciting. I can't wait to work with you!
Draft your bodice block
will return soon!
Passionate about sewing and eager to bring your design ideas to life? Join Mallorie for this first series of pattern drafting classes focused on the bodice block.
Your instructor will guide you step by step, from accurately taking your measurements to constructing and fitting your first toile.
For this first Drafting Sessions, you’ll learn:
How to accurately take your measurements
Use drafting rulers
Draft your bodice block from start to finish
Construct your bodice
Make adjustments and fit your block
Class details
Duration: 4-week courses with weekly 2 hours sessions
Start Date: Sunday, September 22nd 9
Location: At the Studio, in the Elmwood
Cost: $500
Student level: you should know how to use a machine and have basic construction experience. If you never sewed before, check out our group classes or private lessons.
Materials: Dot paper, graph ruler, tracing wheel, tape, markers, french curve ruler, pencil, marker, tape, muslin, pattern-making ruler (optional if you have the graph and French curve ruler).
You should also wear something more on the form fitting side (tank top) and avoid wearing undergarments with a lot of padding.