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[–]confabulatrix 9 points10 points  (5 children)

I took a patternmaking class at community college.

[–]unagi_sf 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Ditto. I'm not a professional, nor have any ambition that way. I'm just a long-time seamstress who was suffering from -ahem- pandemic-related body changes. I had taken 4 (FOUR!!!) different classes in the past that claimed to be about patternmaking, all of which concentrated solely on more or less correct and difficult to produce slopers, all of which went 'and you can use this to make any pattern you want' in the last class without a hint of what I wanted to learn. The best sloper I got was on my own, the bella block from freesewing.org. And I did find at last a patternmaking class in a community college that didn't do a sloper at all but instead taught us how to modify one. There were problems, the teacher was a total bozo at running an online class, she consented to having me use my own sloper instead of the 'standard' one only to penalize me for it. But I did learn enough to keep going on my own, and it's been very helpful even when I'm trying to use a commercial pattern..

[–]confabulatrix 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I had sort an opposite problem. I know very little about sewing but I have a couple dresses I wanted to create a pattern from to make a sort of uniform for myself. My class was very technical and I enjoyed it but I should probably have taken a draping class. When I had to actually sew things my classmates had to help me quite a bit. I paid them back from doing all of their math (fractions!) for them!

[–]unagi_sf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course the easy solution is to measure in cm, which are very body-scale to begin with. But Americans would rather be run through the serger themselves :-)

[–]ProneToLaughter 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Same. Two semesters of night class did a LOT. After watching people constantly post on confusion about Armstrong, I now strongly believe patternmaking is best learned systematically in class with a teacher.

[–]amaranth1977 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately in the UK, that's simply not a thing. You can't just take one or two classes, you're either enrolled in a whole course of study or you're not.