"In this hands-on course, you’ll learn how to draft and fit a custom pant pattern from your own measurements. Guided step-by-step, you’ll discover how to translate numbers into a basic pant sloper that reflects your unique shape and style.

Starting with how to take accurate body measurements, you’ll move on to drafting the front and back pant patterns, sewing a muslin test garment, and mastering the art of fit adjustments. You’ll learn to recognize balance lines, refine proportions, and make precise changes that transform a basic pattern into a beautifully fitted garment.

Recommended Text: Building Patterns by Suzy Furrer (optional)"

The student will learn how to draft a pattern from measurements that fits the figure exactly. This is the moulage - no wearing ease added. Upon completion of the draft, the student will make a muslin test garment to check and adjust the fit. The student then creates a pattern, based upon that moulage, that includes wearing ease. This is the bodice sloper or bodice block and can be used as a starting point to create blouses, dresses, jackets, and coats. Once you have the bodice sloper, you will create an accompanying sleeve sloper. The sloper with sleeve will sewn up in muslin and fitted as well.

This class, or its equivalent, is a prerequisite for Drafting a Jacket/Coat and Altering Commercial Patterns.

Learn to draft and sew two beautifully structured garments in one comprehensive course. Starting from your existing moulage or bodice sloper, you'll draft a pattern adaptable for both a corselet — a supportive interior undergarment — and a bustier, a versatile outer garment that flatters all figures and can be dressed up in luxurious silks and satins or dressed down in denim and tweed. Over eight weeks, you'll build a muslin to perfect your fit, then work through all the professional construction techniques needed to complete your chosen garment: coutil underlayers, boning channels, waist stays, closures, and more. The course wraps up with a virtual showcase of completed student projects, giving you both the skills and the confidence to tackle structured garment construction from start to finish.

Bring your unfinished sewing projects and finally get them done! In this 4-week live Zoom class, Lynda provides personalized guidance, troubleshooting tips, and motivation, while you work alongside supportive peers to complete your projects.

This hands-on course guides students through the process of drafting a custom knit bodice sloper with sleeve from personal measurements. Beginning with an introduction to knit fabrics and proper measurement techniques, students will construct a fitted bodice sloper and sleeve, make test garments, evaluate fit, and transfer any adjustments back to their patterns. Students will then grade their finished slopers across all four stretch categories — minimal, moderate, very stretchy, super stretchy (four-way stretch) — creating a comprehensive personal pattern library that serves as the foundation for designing tops, dresses, jackets, and sweaters.

Join Lynda for a focused workshop on creating a polished, ready-to-wear jacket using the Sienna Jacket by Closet Core Patterns. Inspired by vintage French workwear, the Sienna offers three stylish views and timeless utility details.

Lynda will elevate your skills with techniques such as machine-tailored collars and lapels, an improved order of construction, and drafting/installing a full lining by machine. These methods apply to many popular workwear patterns, giving you tools you’ll use again and again.

The final class in a three-part series on bespoke tailored jacket construction, this six-week course focuses on professional finishing techniques that complete a custom jacket. Students will construct and set the collar, attach a fully lined interior (with an optional hidden pocket), set sleeves, install shoulder pads, and refine structural details at the shoulders and armholes. The course concludes with a virtual showcase of finished student garments.

Prerequisite: Completion of Parts I and II or equivalent tailoring experience.