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Slash and Spread can be used to add extra volume into your patterns to create fullness and new details in a garment. This online course will teach you how to add extra volume in the form of frills, gathers and pleats.
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Pre-Assessment Free trial
- Course preview
Module 1: Creating Frills
The simplest way of adding volume into a pattern piece or garment is by adding flare or creating frills.
In this module we’ll look at how to use slash and spread to add volume and create a range of styles including an A-line skirt, flared tops and frills.
- 1.1 Tracing Your Pattern After Slashing In
- 1.2 Different Ways of Adding Fullness
- 1.3 Drafting an A-line Skirt
- 1.4 Drafting a Flared Skirt
- 1.5 Drafting Frills
- 1.6 Adding Volume To a Bodice
- 1.7 Creating Volume With a Yoke Seam
- 1.8 Adding a Frill Detail
- 1.9 Put Your New Skills To The Test
Module 2: Creating Gathers
Gathers are another way of adding volume into a garment. In this module we’ll look at how to add volume to create fuller frills, gather details and change the silhouette of our block.
- 2.1 Understanding Ratios
- 2.2 Drafting a Gathered Hem Frill
- 2.3 Drafting a Gathered Skirt With a Yoke Seam
- 2.4 Drafting a Gathered Detail
- 2.5 Combining Gathered Fullness With a Flat Yoke
- 2.6 Drafting a Gathered Yoke
- 2.7 Drafting a Gathered Waistband
- 2.8 Put Your Skills To The Test
Module 3: Creating Pleats
The last way of adding volume that we’ll look at is how to add pleats. There are a few variations so we’ll look at a range of examples including, knife pleats, box pleats, inverted box pleats and smaller pleated details.
- 3.1 Pleats Explained
- 3.2 Drafting Knife Pleated Skirt
- 3.3 Drafting Inverted Box Pleats In a Full Skirt
- 3.4 Adding a Pleated Detail In a Fitted Skirt
- 3.5 Drafting Box Pleats With a Yoke Detail
- 3.6 Put Your New Skills To The Test
Conclusion
- Course Summary
- Final Exam
- End of Course Survey
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