What if you want to "standardize" your patterns and sell them? It's not as complicated as you might think... Jennie shows how.

Monique begins a series on drafting a pattern and constructing a 1906 Summer shirtwaist, with tucked front, high collar and elbow sleeves.

Jennie demonstrates how to draft different styles of sleeves (long and short), skirts, and finishes up the 1812 dress.

How to transform a basic bodice pattern into three Regency bodices styles: gathered and two different styles of crossover bodices.

Taking the basic bodice slopers from part 1, Jennie provides several examples of how to transform them into a new design.

Who better than the founder of Sense and Sensibility Patterns to walk you step-by-step through the art of patternmaking?

When making a costume, an extant garment is the ideal research source. Once you have one,  how do you analyze it?

Sleeves can be one of the most daunting challenges for old and new pattern makers.

However as long as you keep one simple principle in mind, you can draft sleeves easily.

Marion McNealy shares with us her secrets of drafting stress free fitted sleeves that set into the armscye easily every time.

Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion, Norah Waugh's Cut of Women's Clothes and others provide us with a fascinating insight into historical clothes. They do so partly by supplying carefully-reproduced scaled patterns of the clothes themselves for us to use in our own work.

That's all very well, but it's likely that the lady who wore the dress of your dreams in 1765 was not the same size as you - maybe not even close. So how do you manipulate the historical pattern to fit you?

Cathy Hay shows you how, both by draping on the dress form and by flat pattern adjustment.