London

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Craft

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Textiles

Pattern Drafting Class: Bodice / Sloper

Perfect your pattern drafting skills with this beginner-friendly workshop.

Craig Parr

4.9 (31)

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3 hours

1 to 5 £50

London

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Craft

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Textiles

What you'll do

Come and learn how to successfully draft a bodice block to your own personal measurements with this hands-on pattern drafting workshop.

Hosted by experienced teacher Craig, this beginner-friendly class will help you learn all of the skills you need to create your own bodice block/sloper, which can be used to create many different designs, whether it be blouses, dresses, shirts, or tops.

Your teacher will begin by demonstrating the techniques you can expect to use before providing a handout as you begin your journey into pattern drafting. You will draft your bodice block on paper, then transfer it onto card to take home.

In this workshop, you'll cover:

Creating your own body measurement chart.
Taking body measurements correctly.
Drafting the bodice block.
Incorporating different bust sizing in the front block, while keeping a good fit at the back and shoulder.
Checking your pattern for fit purposes.
Book recommendations for using your blocks at home.

At the end of this workshop, you'll have a developed set of skills and all the knowledge you need to start creating your own patterns at home.

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What you'll get

Your bodice block in card to take home at the end of the workshop.

What to bring

A calculator.

Craig Parr is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and adheres to COVID-19 government guidelines. They won't run this class if they've had a continuous cough, a high temperature, or a loss of or change in their normal sense of taste or smell, in the last 14 days.

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Your safety is important to us!

On entering, we will have sanitiser stations for you to to freshen up. All machinery, sewing stations, and tools you will be using, will be sanitised before you arrive, and between each session.
At your sewing station you will also have sanitiser wipes, should you feel you need to use them.
Our lavatories are communal, but they will be supplied with santiser wipes, hand wash and disposable towels.

Face masks:
We will continue to follow the government guidelines on facial masks. If you are exempt please bring along your exemption badge.

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Location

The Fashion Box - 718-722 Seven Sisters Road, Seven Sisters, England

Your teacher

Craig Parr

4.9 (31)

1k likes

Who we are:

The Fashion Box was founded in 2013.

After graduating from Central Saint Martins, with a post-graduate degree in Advanced Innovative Pattern Cutting, Craig (Mr Fashion Box!) embarked on a kaleidoscope of successful ventures within the fashion industry.

Craig is a qualified university lecturer, graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University, with a Distinction in Academic Practice, teaching certificate.

During his time working in the fashion industry, he has worked alongside a huge selection of fashion houses, new designers and is a mentor to many university lecturers and fashion graduates.
He is also a former Collection Manager for Qasimi Homme, has worked alongside Sadie Clayton, and is currently working on production of a collection of clothing patterns for his own brand.

Craig has more than 25 years experience in teaching in universities and colleges, as well as with private clients. As a result, he is accomplished at getting the best out of both groups of students and one-to-one situations.

After 8 years at prestigious private Italian school, Istituto Marangoni, he left to pursue his dreams of opening his own fashion school, which resulted in The Fashion Box.

Craig is also former Head of Fashion at a London University, and is currently writing university programmes for fashion schools and universities worldwide.

He is a very patient, capable mentor and tutor, both to beginners and more experienced students.