Learn how to draft your own dress patterns with these creative ideas. Take your sewing skills to the next level and create unique, custom-fit dresses that showcase your personal style.
Drafting the Dress Block Drafting the Dress Block The Extended Line Dress (ELD) block is used to make dresses without a waist seam. Image 1 shows what the ELD block looks like. You don't need to make the ELD block from scratch - you can make it either: Using your Bodice Blocks and Skirts Blocks;
Follow my tutorial and draft a basic bodice block (bodice sloper) based on your body measurements. Enter the measurements into the user-friendly calculator, which computes approximate fabric consumption for the bodice and includes the measurements you have taken (and also measurements, that need to be calculated) in the detailed step-by-step pattern drafting tutorial, which you can easily download as a pdf document into your computer.
Drafting a sewing pattern for a wrap dress is a very important step in making the wrap dress. The process of drafting a pattern can be daunting and complicated, but with the help of this sewing tutorial, it doesn't seem all that bad. I will show you how to make a sewing pattern for a wrap dress from knit fabric.
This tutorial will teach you how to draft a pattern for a simple dress without sleeves using your own measurements. I have found it much easier to draft my own patterns for simple garments than go through the process of using a commercial one. Because if I buy a pattern (like Burda, McCalls, Simplicity, Vogue) I want to get a very complicated one, a pattern I can’t draft myself - with lots of darts, pleats,embellishments.But for a simple dress without sleeves I can easily make a sewing…