Drafting dress patterns

Princess Line - Armhole This page gives instructions for creating the pattern pieces for the Armhole Princess Line style-line. The instructions given are limited to the style-line, as that is the theory being covered - I do not give the instruction to create the whole pattern; e.g. pattern pieces are not created for the lining

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This tutorial will teach you how to draft a pattern for a simple dress without sleeves using your own measurements. I have found it much easier to draft my own patterns for simple garments than go through the process of using a commercial one. Because if I buy a pattern (like Burda, McCalls, Simplicity, Vogue) I want to get a very complicated one, a pattern I can’t draft myself - with lots of darts, pleats,embellishments.But for a simple dress without sleeves I can easily make a sewing…