1. Making Your Own Bodice Pattern
Pattern Cutting
Making Your Own Bodice Pattern
Part 2!
Tutor: Kate Phipps

2. This week we are going to continue drawing out our bodice patterns…
This week we are going to continue drawing out our bodice patterns…. front and back pieces!
Remember to add seam allowances to your pattern once you have finished drawing it. You can be quite generous with these as a bodice ‘sloper’ can be very tight fitting!
Note… don’t worry if your dart placement doesn’t look quite right. If you have a small bust, the dart will be very small and vice versa!
Once you have completed this you need to begin making a toilé….. What is a toilé?

3. A toilé….

4. A "toile" is a version of a garment made by a fashion designer or dressmaker to test a pattern. They are usually made in cheap material, as multiple toile’s may be made in the process of perfecting a design. By altering a toile, it allows you to achieve a perfectly fitting garment.

5. Pattern Grading
Grading a pattern is a method of changing the size of a pattern up or down, whilst still maintaining the correct proportions of the original pattern.
For example, if you wanted to increase a size 12 pattern to a size 16, you would look at the main measurements required for a size 16 (such as bust, waist, full length). You would then increase your original pattern until it met these measurements. To do this you would use the ‘cut and spread’ method.

6. Final Project Ideas
Make a top from your bodice sloper…you could add a collar, a pocket, sleeves….
Use a commercial sewing pattern to successfully create a finished garment (you may bring your sewing machine into class if you have one at home).
Make an item of clothing of your choice from an existing garment, adapting a commercial pattern or creating a pattern from scratch (don’t choose something too complicated as the process is quite time consuming).
You may begin working on your final project from next week! You must let me know next week what you are going to work on. You must produce a completed garment by the final week.