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Metric Pattern Cutting, Third Edition

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I personally use the 5th edition of this book (purple cover) but if you want to be all up to date there is now a 6th edition (Oliver green cover), I'm not sure there's much difference though. I’ve not posted recently as I’ve had my head stuck in a book, Metric Pattern Cutting by Winifred Aldrich.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Here’s the first bodice block I drafted to my measurements, using the Close Fitting Bodice block from Aldrich. I'm guessing this means that if you want to add a centre back seam you'd draw the seam line, split the pattern in two and then add seam allowances. But what is the most amazing is that it teaches you how to draft different blocks with different ease in them which is great especially when you are drafting different styles. You don’t need any special equipment but I found having a claculator, set square, French curves and dot and cross paper (from Wimbledon Sewing Centre) really helpful.

I'm all for creating and designing your own sewing patterns so that you can get more from your sewing projects and this is why I am trying to make pattern cutting as accessible as possible to everyone. If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. As before we start with some blocks (mostly T-shirts) and move into adaptations like tracksuits, dresses and hoods. If you use a normal pencil then the lead will get thicker and thicker meaning you add the odd millimetre here and there to your patterns.

This new acceptance of colour, print and new combinations of classic garments have produced a robust and acceptable fashion market for men. You can use the industry standards or your own measurements and it deals with sloping shoulders and all the weird forms we take up over years!

My books have not been written to promote some particular theoretical approach to clothing design, but to help students to become competent in the basics of pattern cutting and therefore gain the confidence to develop their own ‘cut’. It’s made up of the instructions for drafting a range of blocks but doesn’t show us any examples of ways to adapt the blocks immediately. other linedrawings of basic dress design with technical directions for sizing, including methods for up-, and downsizing fitting home made clothing, complarative tables in text accompanied by technical descriptions for general sizing, incl.

The patterns constructed in many clothing companies are derived from previous styles and it is just not practical to work with nett patterns.

My ‘relationship’ with Aldrich began ten years ago when I received a list of recommended texts for the start of my Fashion Design degree course that included her Metric Pattern Cutting.

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