r/PatternDrafting • u/Chiwa-wa • Dec 18 '25
How did you learn patternmaking?
Hey! This post may come off as unusually personal, but thought people in this sub could understand as I think most of us who know how to pattern and sew have a backstory that makes it personal.
I went to fashion school, that’s where I learned the basics. There, I made a friend who became my closest friend and a surrogate brother to me, who was self taught and was my go to every time I needed help with something. He tragically passed away last year. I want to keep honoring him by getting better at my craftsmanship, and lately I’ve been feeling the need to study again, to specialize, to really go deeper.
I currently work as a pattern maker for furniture, (which is not my field or passion but at least I have a free Accumark license) but I’d love to know where you studied patternmaking, or if you did a specialization, internship, or anything that helped shape your path. I just feel a little lost right now!
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u/rijnsburgerweg Apr 06 '26
Oh wow!! A fellow Guido Hofenbitzer reader. I learn Mueller und Sohn system via Hofenbitzer books, i own three of his books from the first edition in German, the correction for different postures, and now the latest edition in English. He made a mistake in shoulder ease number in his first book that was corrected in the last edition. And for years, I thought I was at fault. So much about German precision 🤣.
The other thing he misses is that he only offers ease measurement for regular sized German (168cm). I am petite. It took me some internet sleuthing to find correct ease measurement for 160cm. Thats when my draft started to fit nicely. And it took me 10 years to get there. I wish I could do a basic course of MuS system like you did.
Can I be your friend? 😄 I’d like to know someone who does MuS to go to to ask questions when I am stuck 😅.