You've spent hours cutting, sewing….and hoping 🤞🏻 Only to end up with something that almost fits. The shoulders are right but the waist isn't. The bust works but the back gapes. You may have even started defaulting to jersey because at least it forgives you.
And to make it clear, the problem was never your body or your skill.
It was the pattern and standardised sizing.
Drafted to your exact measurements, it becomes the foundation every garment you make from that point on is built from. Get this right once, and fitting problems become a thing of the past.
Whether you’re a avid home sewist, or a beginner pattern cutter looking to level up your skills, this course is the perfect introduction to the world of pattern cutting and dressmaking.
A Tailored Dress Block: Learn to draft a dress block based on your own measurements, ensuring a perfect fit every time. Say goodbye to off-the-rack clothing and embrace garments made specifically for you!
Build Confidence: Master the fundamentals of pattern cutting in a relaxed and supportive environment. By the end of the course, you'll have the confidence to continue your dressmaking journey, whether it's for yourself, your business, family, or your friends.
Master Fit: know how to troubleshoot fitting issues and how to relate these back to your block accurately.
A Fun and Productive Outlet: This course offers a fulfilling and enjoyable way to spend your time. It's a great opportunity to learn a valuable skill, meet like-minded people, and create something beautiful together :)
Learning to draft a dress block is an essential starting point because it builds solid technical foundations for understanding the body and garment construction.
Key reasons why are 👇🏻
One - Foundations: The dress block forms the foundations for most garments, including dresses, tops, and jackets. Mastering this gives you a strong understanding of garment structure and fit.
Two - Problem Solving: Understanding how the dress block is constructed helps you troubleshoot fit issues, such as adjusting darts, necklines, or armholes.
Three - Versatility: Once you know how to draft a dress bodice block, you can easily modify it into various styles, giving you creative flexibility.
Four - Skill Development: It enhances your overall pattern-making skills, helping you grasp key concepts like balance, proportion, and seam placement, which can be applied to more complex designs later.
Five - Custom Fit: Drafting your own dress block allows you to create patterns tailored to specific measurements, ensuring better fit and comfort.
Group size is max 4 people to ensure you get adequate 1:1 time with Geri
Weekend 1 - learn how to take accurate measurement, draft the front and back dress block, fit your dress block and translate amends back to pattern.
Weekend 2 - Toile fitting no.2, pattern amends, learn how to draft your sleeve block, sleeve fitting and finalise your dress block pattern.
Homework between weekends will be to make a second calico toile of your dress block ready to bring to weekend 2.
Essential:
Pencil (preferably mechanical)
Rubber
Tape measure
Scissors (paper & fabric)
Notebook
Pattern cutting ruler/ curve
Tracing wheel
2 meters of lightweight calico
Pins
Sewing machine (if you'd rather sew your toile than pin it together)
Optional (if you have):
Notcher
Awl
Pattern Wiz Studio, Unit 6, 20 Wellington Rd, Brighton, BN41 1DN
🕰️ Time: 9.30am - 3.30pm Saturday & Sunday
🗓️ Date: Sign up to the waitlist below to be the first to hear when this course will run again
Geri is a creative senior pattern cutter with 12+ years experience working in luxury fashion for brands such as The OWN Studio, The Vampires Wife, Victoria Beckham and Halpern . She is passionate about teaching & mentoring as loves being able to pass her knowledge on and empower others in making their own clothes and advancing their skills whether they be hobbyist or professional within the industry. She created Pattern Wiz to focus on nurturing creativity, self-expression, and slow fashion in a way that supports well-being, sustainability, and personal growth.
Her approach to teaching is explaining pattern cutting in a simple way making you feel safe and at ease in the process by reminding you nothing you do is ever 'wrong', it is all learning and part of the process!
You've spent hours cutting, sewing….and hoping 🤞🏻 Only to end up with something that almost fits. The shoulders are right but the waist isn't. The bust works but the back gapes. You may have even started defaulting to jersey because at least it forgives you.
And to make it clear, the problem was never your body or your skill.
It was the pattern and standardised sizing.
Drafted to your exact measurements, it becomes the foundation every garment you make from that point on is built from. Get this right once, and fitting problems become a thing of the past.
Whether you’re a avid home sewist, or a beginner pattern cutter looking to level up your skills, this course is the perfect introduction to the world of pattern cutting and dressmaking.
A Tailored Dress Block: Learn to draft a dress block based on your own measurements, ensuring a perfect fit every time. Say goodbye to off-the-rack clothing and embrace garments made specifically for you!
Build Confidence: Master the fundamentals of pattern cutting in a relaxed and supportive environment. By the end of the course, you'll have the confidence to continue your dressmaking journey, whether it's for yourself, your business, family, or your friends.
Master Fit: know how to troubleshoot fitting issues and how to relate these back to your block accurately.
A Fun and Productive Outlet: This course offers a fulfilling and enjoyable way to spend your time. It's a great opportunity to learn a valuable skill, meet like-minded people, and create something beautiful together :)
Learning to draft a dress block is an essential starting point because it builds solid technical foundations for understanding the body and garment construction.
Key reasons why are 👇🏻
One - Foundations: The dress block forms the foundations for most garments, including dresses, tops, and jackets. Mastering this gives you a strong understanding of garment structure and fit.
Two - Problem Solving: Understanding how the dress block is constructed helps you troubleshoot fit issues, such as adjusting darts, necklines, or armholes.
Three - Versatility: Once you know how to draft a dress bodice block, you can easily modify it into various styles, giving you creative flexibility.
Four - Skill Development: It enhances your overall pattern-making skills, helping you grasp key concepts like balance, proportion, and seam placement, which can be applied to more complex designs later.
Five - Custom Fit: Drafting your own dress block allows you to create patterns tailored to specific measurements, ensuring better fit and comfort.
Group size is max 4 people to ensure you get adequate 1:1 time with Geri
Weekend 1 - learn how to take accurate measurement, draft the front and back dress block, fit your dress block and translate amends back to pattern.
Weekend 2 - Toile fitting no.2, pattern amends, learn how to draft your sleeve block, sleeve fitting and finalise your dress block pattern.
Homework between weekends will be to make a second calico toile of your dress block ready to bring to weekend 2.
Essential:
Pencil (preferably mechanical)
Rubber
Tape measure
Scissors (paper & fabric)
Notebook
Pattern cutting ruler/ curve
Tracing wheel
2 meters of lightweight calico
Pins
Sewing machine (if you'd rather sew your toile than pin it together)
Optional (if you have):
Notcher
Awl
Pattern Wiz Studio, Unit 6, 20 Wellington Rd, Brighton, BN41 1DN
🕰️ Time: 9.30am - 3.30pm Saturday & Sunday
🗓️ Date: Sign up to the waitlist below to be the first to hear when this course will run again
Geri is a creative senior pattern cutter with 12+ years experience working in luxury fashion for brands such as The OWN Studio, The Vampires Wife, Victoria Beckham and Halpern . She is passionate about teaching & mentoring as loves being able to pass her knowledge on and empower others in making their own clothes and advancing their skills whether they be hobbyist or professional within the industry. She created Pattern Wiz to focus on nurturing creativity, self-expression, and slow fashion in a way that supports well-being, sustainability, and personal growth.
Her approach to teaching is explaining pattern cutting in a simple way making you feel safe and at ease in the process by reminding you nothing you do is ever 'wrong', it is all learning and part of the process!
