Pattern Making Fundamentals

  • Duration: 8 weeks (once a week, same day and time for duration)
  • Class Size: 8 students (maximum)
  • Your Teachers: Jessica Hsu
  • Classes Start: Monthly

Price: $625

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Pattern Making Fundamentals
CA$625.00
 
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You Will Learn:
  • How to measure yourself to create your own block
  • create skirt block
  • learn to manipulate block to create your own design
  • A line skirt
  • Sew muslin of block and A line skirt
  • Fit and adjust pattern

Project Include:
  • Skirt block
  • A line skirt
  • Muslins and fitting with adjustments
 

Pattern Making Fundamentals Part-time Classes

 

Kick start your pattern making career or hobby on our beginner-friendly course where you’ll learn the fundamentals of flat pattern making. In this course you will learn to draft a skirt block. You’ll sew together muslin's of the blocks, fit them and learn how to apply fit adjustments to final pattern.

 
 

Important Notes

  • If class has three students or less it is considered private and will run 6 weeks
  • Buy a pattern makers kit at The Cut, which includes one curved ruler, one straight ruler, a measuring tape and tracing wheel. ($70)

    • Housekeeping

  • Please arrive to class on time
  • If you’re going to miss class for any reason, please email in advance to let us know. If you fail to report your absence within 24 hours, your class will be considered a missed session and no make up class will be provided
  • You’re permitted one make up class per session, as long as it’s taken within the time frame of your course and as long as a spot becomes available during another class

    • Meet your professors

    Nargas Khabazha

    Nargas opened her first studio in 1997 as a pattern maker for her own clothing line, specializing in women's special sizes. She gained recognition in the Vancouver Sun and North Shore News as a realistic designer. In 2002, she launched a ready-to-wear collection for sophisticated baby boomer women, selling nationally. Nargas has over 40 years of experience as a fashion technical instructor in pattern making, draping, fitting, and textile development. Since 2008, she has supported her students in showcasing their designs at Vancouver Fashion Week twice a year. A Montreal native who moved to Canada in 1984, Nargas began her career with a handcrafted shoe store and later pursued fashion design at LaSalle College and KPU Polytechnic College. She continues to mentor her students, guiding them to successful runway shows.

    Melissa McSorley

    Following in her mother and grandmother’s footsteps, Melissa chose a career in the fashion industry and has been teaching for the last three years. She is a graduate from the Art Institute of Vancouver’s Fashion Design and Merchandising program. After a successful pattern making internship while in her second-to-last quarter, Melissa started working in the industry three months before graduation. Since graduation, Melissa has been building her skill set in contract pre-production manufacturing, wearing many hats. She also works with her own clients as a seamstress, doing alterations and one-of-a-kind projects.

     

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     This program has been approved by the registrar of the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills
    The Cut Design Academy is designated with PTIB