✨ Bring Your Designs To Life
You've got a dress block that fits. But now what?
This is the question that stops so many sewists in their tracks. You did the hard work of drafting a dress block to your measurements, or finessing the fit of a pre existing block. Then it sits in a drawer because you're not sure what to do with it next 🤷🏻♀️
✨ Bring Your Designs To Life is the answer.
Over two weekends in the Pattern Wiz studio, you'll learn how to take your well-fitting block and transform it into an original dress design. One that's technically on point, beautifully fitted, and a design that genuinely reflect you, and who you are now and want to become 💫
👇🏻 Who this is for
Confident sewists who have experience with making woven dresses, fitting invisible zippers, working with existing patterns, and making small pattern adjustments as needed.
Pattern cutters who would like to improve on turning their designs into reality with accuracy.
You have drafted a dress block (with me or someone else), or have a block that fits well and you are happy with.
You want to feel confident working with your block and rebuilding it into something new.
You're ready to move from working with pre-exisitng patterns to designing your own, and you're curious about what making something that expresses who you actually are, not just who you think you should dress like.
🤓 What you'll learn
Across two weekends you'll discover how to transform your block using professional pattern cutting techniques:
Adding volume, gathers and pleats.
Adding or removing seams and darts.
Changing bust dart angle and position.
Adjusting style lines and garment length.
Critiquing and refining a design idea.
Designing and pattern cutting your new dress.
Creating and fitting a calico toile.
Translating alterations back to your pattern and finalising your design.
By the end you'll have a drafted a pattern for a brand new dress and the confidence to bring your designs to life using your block again and again.
How the two weekends work
Weekend One: learn how to transform your block: adding volume, gathers, pleats, changing dart angles, adjusting style lines and length.
A guided inward exploration to help you connect with what you actually want to design and how your clothes/ designs can help you design who you are becoming.
You'll sketch and begin to design your new dress.
Weekend Two: Pattern cutting your new design, cut and fit a calico toile, and refine and finalise your design and pattern.
What you'll leave with
A drafted pattern for your newly designed dress. A block manipulation method you can use to create new designs again and again. A deeper understanding of fit and how to troubleshoot it. And a design that expresses not just your taste, but who you're becoming.
✂️ What to bring
Your well-fitting dress block - this is essential, the whole course builds from it.
A moodboard or print-out of inspiration: styles, shapes, and details you'd like to explore. Make notes on what you love about them and how they differ from your current block.
Tools and materials: mechanical pencil with 2H lead, pattern cutting ruler, eraser, tracing wheel, fine pins, calico, pattern paper, tape measure in cm, paper scissors, fabric scissors, red/black/green biros, Scotch Magic Tape.
Optional extras: awl, notcher, drill hole punch.
Your own sewing machine - there are x2 machine at the studio avalible for use. If you would like to use one of these please let me know.
Course details
📅 Date - TBA - sign up to the waitlist to get notifyed when the next course dates are released
⏰ Time: 9.30am — 3.30pm Saturday and Sunday
📍 Pattern Wiz Studio, Unit 6, 20 Wellington Road, Brighton, BN41 1DN
👥 Maximum 4 people — small group for maximum 1:1 time with Geri
💷 Investment: £580 for both weekends
You've got a dress block that fits. But now what?
This is the question that stops so many sewists in their tracks. You did the hard work of drafting a dress block to your measurements, or finessing the fit of a pre existing block. Then it sits in a drawer because you're not sure what to do with it next 🤷🏻♀️
✨ Bring Your Designs To Life is the answer.
Over two weekends in the Pattern Wiz studio, you'll learn how to take your well-fitting block and transform it into an original dress design. One that's technically on point, beautifully fitted, and a design that genuinely reflect you, and who you are now and want to become 💫
👇🏻 Who this is for
Confident sewists who have experience with making woven dresses, fitting invisible zippers, working with existing patterns, and making small pattern adjustments as needed.
Pattern cutters who would like to improve on turning their designs into reality with accuracy.
You have drafted a dress block (with me or someone else), or have a block that fits well and you are happy with.
You want to feel confident working with your block and rebuilding it into something new.
You're ready to move from working with pre-exisitng patterns to designing your own, and you're curious about what making something that expresses who you actually are, not just who you think you should dress like.
🤓 What you'll learn
Across two weekends you'll discover how to transform your block using professional pattern cutting techniques:
Adding volume, gathers and pleats.
Adding or removing seams and darts.
Changing bust dart angle and position.
Adjusting style lines and garment length.
Critiquing and refining a design idea.
Designing and pattern cutting your new dress.
Creating and fitting a calico toile.
Translating alterations back to your pattern and finalising your design.
By the end you'll have a drafted a pattern for a brand new dress and the confidence to bring your designs to life using your block again and again.
How the two weekends work
Weekend One: learn how to transform your block: adding volume, gathers, pleats, changing dart angles, adjusting style lines and length.
A guided inward exploration to help you connect with what you actually want to design and how your clothes/ designs can help you design who you are becoming.
You'll sketch and begin to design your new dress.
Weekend Two: Pattern cutting your new design, cut and fit a calico toile, and refine and finalise your design and pattern.
What you'll leave with
A drafted pattern for your newly designed dress. A block manipulation method you can use to create new designs again and again. A deeper understanding of fit and how to troubleshoot it. And a design that expresses not just your taste, but who you're becoming.
✂️ What to bring
Your well-fitting dress block - this is essential, the whole course builds from it.
A moodboard or print-out of inspiration: styles, shapes, and details you'd like to explore. Make notes on what you love about them and how they differ from your current block.
Tools and materials: mechanical pencil with 2H lead, pattern cutting ruler, eraser, tracing wheel, fine pins, calico, pattern paper, tape measure in cm, paper scissors, fabric scissors, red/black/green biros, Scotch Magic Tape.
Optional extras: awl, notcher, drill hole punch.
Your own sewing machine - there are x2 machine at the studio avalible for use. If you would like to use one of these please let me know.
Course details
📅 Date - TBA - sign up to the waitlist to get notifyed when the next course dates are released
⏰ Time: 9.30am — 3.30pm Saturday and Sunday
📍 Pattern Wiz Studio, Unit 6, 20 Wellington Road, Brighton, BN41 1DN
👥 Maximum 4 people — small group for maximum 1:1 time with Geri
💷 Investment: £580 for both weekends