Pattern Cutting Ruler - I use the Pattern Masterruler because I find the size covers most outfits I make.It's quite strong so it won't break (it's currently in my suitcase on my world tour and it's not broken yet, I think that's quite impressive) and it's super easy to do seam allowances with the extra lines on it. When you start out with any project I think knowing which tools to buy can be overwhelming and a lot of the time there are so many gadgets you just don't need. I thought it might be helpful if I showed you which tools I use and why. Metric Pattern Cutting for Women’s Wear, first published in 1975, provides a straightforward introductory book for students beginning courses in flat pattern cutting. The perfect book to start with, is Metric Pattern Cutting for Women’s Wear by Winifred Aldrich, which has been around since 1975 and by now has reached its 6th edition. It’s been published by John Wiley & Sons.

The size charts have been revised to reflect the changes in body sizing, the co-ordination with European size charts and to the way that clothes are now marketed to different sectors. The great expansion of casual wear has led to the growth of 'flat cutting' with no darting, and the section devoted to this type of cutting has been further expanded. The book remains written for beginners, students who are starting practical pattern cutting as part of The size-charts have been updated to reflect the changes in body sizing during the years. This usually means bigger waist and -hips and a smaller bust. Contents Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, 5th Edition PDF by Alan Agresti, Christine Franklin and Bernhard Klingenberg

A particularly useful chapter is the one that talks about correcting fit issues. Because lets face it, not everybody has the standard body-shape. This won't teach you how to sew, but it may provide a foundation for pattern manipulation and drafting. New for this edition is the inclusion of colour to help students recognize the different sections of the book and to enhance the garment illustrations? Colour illustrations also offer a new dimension to the updated material on computer-aided design and the CAD chapter now provides students with a clear guide to the technology. Essential Clinical Skills: Enrolled Nurses, 5th Edition PDF by Joanne Tollefson, Gayle Watson, Eugenie Jelly and Karen Tambree Managerial Economics and Business Strategy, 10th Edition PDF by Michael R Baye and Jeffrey T Prince

The book has been written for fashion-students, who are beginners in pattern making, but it’s also useful as a reference book for freelance-designers. Following some of the adaptions, I've altered commercial patterns, such as splitting the front to have a yoke, rotate the dart to the shoulder and add fullness to gather into the yoke instead of a dart. Part two… covers the basic processes of pattern adaptation used for the construction of sleeves and collars. These processes are used with both ‘fl at’ and ‘form’ cutting methods. I've been wanting to understand patterns and garment fitting better after falling into the historical costuming world on YouTube and having dabbled in sewing for most of my adult life but struggling to actually end up with something I will wear beyond a circle skirt.This edition has also responded to the way fabrics and fashion have changed the cut and sizing of garments in different manufacturing processes. The popularity of casual wear, in jersey or stretch fabrics, has led to the expansion of fl at cutting with no darting to create the shape. However, students have to understand how to create shape through cutting alone, form cutting, and therefore the first section of the book still covers this technique. Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 10th Edition PDF by Yunus A Cengel, Michael A Boles, and Mehmet Kanoğlu Metric Pattern Cutting for Women’s Wear gives you the chance to draft patterns to your own measurements. But you can use industrial sizes, too. There are a couple of different size charts: one for teenagers, with a more athletic figure (=high-street fashion), including sizes 6-16. And one for the mature women (=standard), sizes 6-24. Both with the possibility to adjust the measurements by the person’s height: short, medium or tall. There are also different charts for leisure wear with the letter-codes XS-XXL.

People often ask me to recommend some pattern making books, so I decided to write a few introductions. Well, there are already these two articles about the Pattern Magic-series, which I continue to recommend, but now it’s time to introduce something more basic. I chose some books which I want to write about. Notchers - These aren't a must but they are useful if you want to make your patterns last longer. They snip a 'U' shape in the paper meaning it doesn't rip as easily asnotching by hand creating 'V' shapes.