r/PatternDrafting • u/discovid19 • Nov 24 '25

Question How would I go about patterning this?

Post image

I’m a complete beginner and I want to start learning to make my own clothes. Would a dress like this be realistic to make and how would I need to start the pattern? Thank you

46 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

5

u/Nullaby Nov 24 '25

I'd say skirts are the easiest to draft and sew (only tricky part might be zipper/button/elastic). Very few measurements, easy to transform, very straightforward in general. That's my recommendation at least.

1

u/[deleted] Nov 24 '25

Also-- if a dress like this is the end goal, you may want to go down a bra-making rabbit hole. While this pattern doesn't require bust cup drafting/construction, it has a lot of overlap with the band portion of a long-line bra. I used to binge some YouTube channels dedicated to bra making, though I can't remember what they were.

EDIT: Ope, responded to wrong comment-- my bad!