Drafting Manual: How to Draft a Knit Cardigan
Drafting Manual: How to Draft a Knit Cardigan
How to Draft a Knit Cardigan — Sewing With Numbers Project 012 Draft-It-Yourself Manual
Learn how to make your own knit cardigan sewing pattern for your own fit and size preferences. This manual is created for sewists who want to expand their skills beyond construction and into garment design. This step-by-step guide walks you through the design and drafting process, starting with selecting a silhouette through drafting every pattern piece.
Inside the 30-page PDF, you’ll find:
How to Draft a Knit Cardigan
4 Design Variations
Bonus tutorial: Understanding Negative Ease and Drafting with Stretch Fabric
Bonus tutorial: How to Draft a Mitered Corner Hem
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.
PDF Includes:
Instruction Booklet (30 pages)
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Table Of Contents
How to Draft a Knit Cardigan
Four Knit Cardigan Design Variations
Bonus: Understanding Negative Ease and Stretch
Bonus: Drafting Mitered Corner Hems
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This booklet includes the following:
• Instruction Booklet (30 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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