Drafting Manual: How to Draft Pleats, Plackets and Pockets
Drafting Manual: How to Draft Pleats, Plackets and Pockets
Learn how to draft pleats, plackets and pockets that can be applied to a variety of garment designs. This in-depth digital manual is for sewists who want to create their own sewing patterns and understand the math behind how these design features work.
Inside the 39-page PDF, you’ll find:
Guide to drafting three types of pleats
Instructions for drafting full length and partial plackets
Instructions for drafting a variety of pockets including lined and unlined patch pockets and cut away scoop pockets
Tutorial for drafting a button front skirt with edge-to-edge pleating (and spreadsheet calculator)
Please note: This is a drafting manual, not a sewing pattern. It does not include pattern pieces or construction instructions. Recommended for intermediate sewists and beginner-to-intermediate pattern drafters.
Digital Download Includes:
39 page Instruction Booklet — more details below
Digital download only — no refunds.
Table Of Contents
How To Draft Pleats (Edge To Edge Pleats, Box Pleats and Spaced Pleats)
How To Draft Full Length Plackets (Grown-on and Separate)
How To Draft Partial Plackets (Two-piece and Single-piece)
How To Draft Pockets (a variety of Patch Pockets and Scoop Pockets)
How To Draft A Button Front Pleated Skirt (plus a link to a Google Sheets pattern piece calculator)
DIGITAL BOOKLET DETAILS
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This booklet includes the following:
• Instruction Booklet (39 pages)
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Sewing With Numbers is a newsletter hosted on Substack about sewing, math and how to draft your own sewing patterns. Through simple pattern drafting exercises, I'll show you how fun, useful and empowering math can be. Every 8 to 10 weeks, I feature a different drafting project, with each lesson building upon the learnings from previous ones. (This pdf booklet is a bundle of all the posts needed to draft one project.) The newsletter goes out about once a week with topics such as drafting exercises and design variations. Click here to subscribe and stay up to date on new projects.
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