How To Make Sewing Patterns

Measure from the center of the neck below the Adam’s apple to the navel. On paper, reproduce the length from the crook of the L-square up, and make a cross hatch on A for the center of the neck.

Make a line from the center front point to one even with the side of the neck. Note the width and measure from the shoulder seam at the side of the neck down to the navel level.

Reproduce this vertically, drawing the side front or C line, to the waistline, B.

Hold the tape from the center point to the edge of the shoulder. Mark that horizontal measurement on the pattern and make a vertical line, labeled D, indicating the shoulder edge.

Take the distance from the navel to the edge of the shoulder to put a corresponding line from center front to D on the paper. From there, connect to the neck mark on C.

Draw vertical Line E using the measurement from center front across the bust to the side seam. Measure the waist from center front to the side seam and mark on line B.

Take down the length of the side seam and mark it on Line E. Find the halfway point on line B between the waist mark and Line E and connect these two points.

Complete the outline using the French curve to connect the center neck mark on A to the side front, and side seam E to shoulder mark D. Now use the pattern on real material!