PATTERN CUTTING ESSENTIALS:
PLEATS, GATHERS & FRILLS
17
Projects
21
Videos
BEGINNER & NOVICE
Skill Level
3.5 HOURS
Duration
Are you ready to start creating new silhouettes and adding volume to your patterns?
Then this is the course for you! Explore the art of drafting of pleats, gathers, and frills in this online course.
Discover how to use slash and spread to effortlessly transform patterns and unleash your unique style. With a perfect blend of video tutorials and written content, you’ll unlock endless possibilities for creating frills, gathered details and lots of pleats!
Enrol now and start drafting your dream wardrobe!
This course is the third course of the Pattern Cutting Essentials Course Series, covering essential beginner pattern cutting knowledge and techniques. You can buy this as a separate course or you can buy the bundle here.
GET DIRECT ACCESS TO YOUR TEACHER WITH:
- Step by step video tutorials
- Written content to go alongside every video
- Downloadable notes & example designs
- Built in Q&A sections in every course
- Email access for extra support
YOU'VE BEEN SEWING FOR A WHILE...
…And you love using commercial patterns, but want to make patterns that reflect your personal style and feel like luxury.
You've watched YouTube videos and tried reading the books...
…But are still going around in circles trying to understand complicated instructions and mixed messages.
You want to draft your dream wardrobe...
…And you want all the information, tutorials and help that you need to get started in one, easy to understand place.
TELL ME MORE...
Each module builds on the knowledge that you gain in the previous one, getting progressively more complex.
Starting with simple silhouette changes and creating flat frills, then moving onto how you can use slash and spread to add extra volume to create gathers and pleats.
We’ll work through lots of different examples, getting more complex as we work and seeing the techniques that you’re learning on a mixture of bodices and skirts.
All you have to do is grab your half scale blocks and follow along with the video tutorials. This is your chance to embrace learning and add pattern cutting to your list of impressive skills!
MODULE 1:
CREATING FRILLS
MODULE 2:
CREATING GATHERS
MODULE 3:
CREATING PLEATS
Are You Ready To Start?
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FAQS
- Beginner pattern cutters
- Hobby Sewers who are looking to take their sewing to the next level.
- Fashion Students who need an extra boost to their pattern cutting knowledge.
This course is aimed at beginner and novice pattern cutters, but you do need to familiar with some very basic skills including how to add seam allowance and basic dart rotation.
Yes! There are built in Q&A boxes throughout the course where I can answer all your questions and throughts. You can also reach me via email, kathryn@project-patterns.co.uk
Yes! At checkout you can select from two payment plan options:
1. Paypal “Pay in 3” option allows you to split the payment over 3 instalments over 3 months.
2. Klarna “Pay in 3” option allows you to split the payment over 3 instalments over 3 months.
Simply go through the check out process to find these options.
You have life-time access to the whole course so you can take as long as you need to complete it. And you can come back and revisit each lesson as many times as you want.
Absolutely. We all take in new information in a variety of different ways, so there is written content to go alongside each video tutorial.
This course comes with half scale bodice and skirt blocks for you to practice with. You’ll find them as downloads in the course that can be printed on an A4 printer at home.
STILL NOT SURE WHAT TO EXPECT?
Here’s a little sneak preview of what the inside of this course looks like!
COURSE CONTENT
Once you've purchased the course come back here to get started.
Simply make sure you’re logged in and click the introduction to get started!