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The definitive resource for professionals, fashion design students, educators, as well as the home enthusiast.

Connie Crawford would like to introduce you to this new up-to-date edition of Patternmaking Made Easy.

The strength of Patternmaking Made Easy is the visually apparent instructional layout. Continuity between frames is clear. Each concept is laid out seamlessly on one page or facing pages. Yet each pattern process is complete and hasn’t sacrificed detail at the expense of instruction. Each subject is approached thoroughly with simple directness so that the average student may enjoy this logical journey into the world of fashion.

Connie’s drafting techniques are the same REQUIRED methods in the fashion industry and fashion design schools. She demonstrates pants for smaller and mature figures, princess seams, plackets, bustiers, knit designs, lingerie and tailoring -- just to name a few. All the techniques needed to draft flat patterns for bodices, skirts, pants, jackets, and sleeves are in this mammoth 459 page, spiral bound hardback. It will provide pattern makers and design students with the means to execute all of their creative ideas in a nearly infinite variety of clothing styles.

The previous texts: Fashion Your Own Pants, Fashion Your Own Skirts, and Customizing the Bodice are included in this textbook.

©2007, 459 pp., illustrated, hardcover, inside spiral bound

Forward and Acknowledgments	II
Introduction	IV
1 Patternmaking Equipment	2
2 Seam Allowances	8
Pattern Notches	9
Pattern Markings	11
Pattern Terminology	12
3 Principles and Theory of Various Blocks	18
4 Body Types and Size Charts	33
The Dress Form	35
Basic Bodice Draft	42
5 Design Principles and Pattern Balance	63
Designing with Darts	66
Learning the Basics	70
Styling the Basics	83
6 Pattern Principles of the
Torso/Blouse Sloper	97
Torso/Blouse Sloper Draft	100
Styling Dresses	105
Styling Empire Dresses	118
7 Contoured Theory	123
Taking Care of Gaposis	128
Contoured Styles: Halter	130
Sleeveless	131
Bustier Designs	137
8 Buttons, Button Extensions	143
Facings	147
Shirt Plackets	149
9 Pattern Principles of
Dartless Slopers	157
Dartless Blouse Sloper	160
Dartless Shirt Sloper	163
Styling Blouses	167
Styling Shirts	174
Styling Vests	177
10 Cowl Designs	182
Flounces and Ruffle Designs	187
11 Basic Collar Designs	194
Tailored Collar Designs	204
Hood Designs	215
12 Waist Fitted Kimono Block	219
Dartless Kimono Block	221
Raglan Shirt Block	223
13 Sleeve Drafts	230
Sleeve Designs	243
Sleeve Cuffs	248
Sleeve Plackets	250
14 Jacket Blocks Tailored	256
Jacket Sleeves	258
Jacket Lining Patterns	262
Jacket Interfacing Patterns	263
Jacket Sewing Instructions	265
Demi-Princess Jacket Design	267
15 Knit Blocks	271
Knit Sleeves	277
Leotard	278
Bodysuit	280
Panties/Briefs	282
Knit Designs	284
16 Basic Skirt Blocks	286
Two-Dart Basic Skirt Draft	290
One-Dart Basic Skirt Block	295
Flared (A-Line) Skirt Block	296
Skirt Designs	299
Skirt Openings	357
Vents, Kick Pleats, Slits	360
17 Pockets	362
Patch Pocket	364
In-Seam Pocket	365
Front Hip or Western Pocket	366
Bellows Pocket	368
Welt Pockets	369
Full-Size Pocket Patterns	371
18 Pants	375
Pant Blocks	391
Pant Styling	407
Waistline Treatments	427
Button and Zipper Openings	432
Pant Sewing Instructions	435
Appendix – Quarter-Scale Blocks	443
Index	451

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