Duplicate your favorite pants!
Online Class !
Learn to take the pattern of
"your favorite pants"
without taking them apart!
Learn an easy method that you can do at home without much prior patterning knowledge.....
Annikas unique perspective helps to make everything so simple. A course that will bring you skills and know-how many times over!
Kina V.
I always thought pattern making is difficult. Turns out it's not! This class is so well presented. Simply and artfully! Along with all the tricks of the trade to make the adjustments for a beautiful fit.
Simone G.
I love my pants. I already made them in another fabric. I get so many compliments. They are perfect!
Lia G.
What You'll Learn In This Course
Create a Block Pattern base
- Learn about Block patterns and how you can create a solid foundation block based on your best fitting pair of pants!
- Build a block pattern archive and get creative, designing your own designs out of your blocks.
A very Simple and Easy Technique
- No pants are getting harmed in the process
- No need to take them apart
- Trace the pattern out of the pants using pins, and following detailed instructions.
Pattern Making Fundamentals
- Patterns are constructed over a grid.
- This grid is directly related to the grain of the fabric and the balanced fit of your garment.
- Learn about the pattern grid and how to reconstruct it to recreate your pants in a super straightforward way.
Making a Muslin.
- Create a test version of your pants from muslin fabric to test the fit.
- Learn what is important and how to construct the muslin to get the best fitting results.
Fitting Basics
- What is a good Fit?
- The most common fitting problems and how to fix them.
- Gain a good understanding of the forces at work that determine a good fit.
- Take your patterns and make them perfect
Making A Sewing Pattern
- Finish your pattern and make it ready to sew!
- Add Seam Allowances
- And final Details
Whats Included In This Offer?
Value Packed Video Tutorials
This compact course, gives you everything you need to know, to knowledgeably reestablish a sewing pattern from an existing garment.
This course is about your favorite pair of pants. This is why we will not take them apart. There is no need to....
I am sharing my personal method that I have been successfully using for the last 25 years to create exact recreations of patterns of the favorite garments of my clients. It works!
In this course you learn to trace the outlines of the single parts of your pants with pins, using a soft surface like a cork board or styrofoam board as a surface. This easy process follows some simple and basic rules explained throughout the course.
NO, you don't have to go to fashion school or take lengthy pattern making classes if you just want to quickly make something you want to wear.
This course is also designed to give you a starting point in pattern making. From here you can make it your own and learn from the garments you copy directly.
And it comes with a
Community Group
This class tells you where to start and how to successfully do it at home!
I want you to take this class and run with it. To make it yours and hopefully make many more pants!!!
You will have unlimited access to the free "All Members Portal" in your library. This is where you can connect with other reverse pattern engineers in this course and where you can ask any and all questions.
Yes, I'll be there to answer them too! There will also be frequent community Q+A calls to discuss general topics coming up.
⭐ ADDITIONALLY ⭐
You will get 3 months free access to the creative "Exclusive Members Portal". This is where I will take this class a step further into the designing aspect of this work and where I will work with you on modifying your blocks to realize your ideas!
Meet Your Instructor
Hi - I'm Annika and I am a fashion and costume designer from Portland, Oregon.
I am specialized in pattern cutting and pattern design and have been involved in many international award winning high-end feature film, and stage productions.
Parallel to my professional career, I have been teaching classes on pattern construction and fashion design in Germany and here in Portland, Oregon.
Creating an online version of my popular in-person class has been on my mind forever.
And now it is here!
I created this class for YOU. This is my very own technique that I use almost everyday for the last 25 years. It is my skill, that I still improve with every new garment I study this way.
This is key because this method allows us to study the garments we are recreating the patterns of. This is an amazing way to learn pattern making. Knowing this method has enabled many to understand garments on a different level. It's pragmatic.
It's immediate, so simple.....,
AND FUN!
It will give you all the freedom to not only express yourself in all the ways you want.
Who This Course Is For
- You have some sewing experience.
- You are making your own clothes OR you want to start but don't know how.
- You want to break out of the limitations of commercial patterns or being able to customize them to your liking.
- You want to get more creative with your design abilities.
- You want to experiment, take on a challenge and learn from the garments you copy.
- You want to skip generic pattern making courses and learn what YOU want to learn.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Long Do I Get Access?
You will have lifetime access to the class.
Additionally, you'll gain access to the "All Members Community Group". Here you can meet and check in with your fellow reverse pattern engineers of this class and you can ask for support, general tips and tricks to keep you going on your pattern making journey.
How much will I learn?
You learn everything you need to get started, taking the pattern of your favorite pair of pants. You learn to make a sewing pattern from it, that you can then sew in new fabrics many more times.
This class meets you where you're at. The more you use it, the more you learn. Experimentation is key.
I am your miniature costume student... will this class be of value for me?
This class is a different angle into what I am teaching in the live classes of the miniature costume classes. Small and tall, all follows the same principles.
You frequently ask me in class, how I see and know what is going on with the fit of your costumes by just looking at the pictures.......
This is how!
Knowing these skills will greatly improve your understanding of the garment in regards to the fit and the pattern mechanics. You will not only gain the ability to problem solve the performance of your costume but also create more sophisticated designs effortlessly and confidently.
This is the very knowledge I have been collecting for myself and that I have been successfully using in my professional career in life action film productions and in the stop motion industry.
If you have been a student of mine in the past, you have heard me say this before. The best way to learn is by studying existing garments. To imitate and then appropriating it into the small scale.
With this class you can do exactly that and also make some cool clothes for yourself along the way!
