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Workshop costs vary according to location and length of time. Please contact Jennifer Smith for details.
Beginning Computer Pattern Making
- Overview of computer pattern making
- Taking measurements
- Creating a basic pattern
- Fitting the basic bodice
- Introduction to PatternMaker CAD tools
- Using PatternMaker CAD tools to pivot the bodice dart
- Includes workshop manual
- Includes CD containing:
- Trial PatternMaker software
- Women's trouser macro
- Sample of CD tutorial Pattern Making with PatternMaker
- PatternMaker manual and tutorial (.pdf format)
Intermediate Computer Pattern Making—No previous patterning
experience is necessary.
You do not need to have taken the beginning class to take this one, but you should be an accomplished sewer.
- Overview of PatternMaker CAD tools:
- Cut
- Rotate
- Poly
- Join
- Adding seam allowance
- Slashing and pivoting pattern making techniques
- Creating new designs using the bodice sloper
- adding pleats
- dividing darts
- adding gathers
- Collar drafting
- Truing
- Includes workshop manual
- Includes Proportional Scale
- Includes CD containing:
- Trial PatternMaker software
- Women's trouser macro
- Women's collar macro
- Women's bodice sloper
- Sample of CD tutorial Pattern Making with PatternMaker
- PatternMaker manual and tutorial (.pdf format)
The Instructor
These workshops are taught by Jennifer Smith who has over 20 years of pattern making and sewing experience. She taught for 13 years at the University of Florida Department of Theatre and Dance. Subjects taught include: tailoring, flat pattern making, draping, make-up, painting and dyeing, crafts, and millinery. She has created patterns for the costumes of hundreds of theater, dance, and opera productions. She has worked with a variety of artists including Placido Domingo, Denyce Graves, Jose Ferrar and Prince.
If you would like to host a workshop, please contact Jennifer Smith.
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