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              DVD

              Designing Your Wardrobe: Drafting Tops (DVD)

              with Suzy Furrer
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              Get own-forever classes for less than $8 a month!
              As an annual Bluprint member, you'll choose one own-forever class to add to your library each month
              $25.00$45.00
              Format

              Online Class

              $40.00

              DVD

              $25.00

              Go beyond the sloper and draft your own top patterns!

              Skill Level

              Advanced

              What You Get

              • DVD with 6 video lessons
              • Full-color, printed reference materials booklet, including pattern record cards, design guidelines and design exercises
              • Hours of close-up instruction
              • Includes closed captioning

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              Class Overview

              Picturing the ultimate well-fitting top? Now you can draft a pattern for it! Apparel Arts design school founder Suzy Furrer shows you how to use your sloper to create a shell, a tee, a peplum top and a kimono jacket.

              Class Overview

              Lesson Breakdown

              1. Designing a Collection
              21:58
              Meet Suzy Furrer, founder of the Oakland fashion design school Apparel Arts. Suzy begins with a series of mood-board exercises to help identify your aesthetic. Then learn how to create a wardrobe plan by approaching color and fabric selection like a designer.
              2. Sleeveless Shell
              29:54
              3. Closures, Edge Finishes & Pattern Standards
              28:28
              4. T-Shirt Variations
              21:40
              5. Peplum Top
              27:14
              6. Knit Wrap Jacket
              19:48
              Lesson Breakdown

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              Taught by

              Suzy Furrer
              Suzy Furrer
              Instructor
              Suzy Furrer has been working in the apparel industry since the mid-'80s. After studying patternmaking with couturier Simmon Sethna in 1996, Suzy started Apparel Arts, a San Francisco-based fashion design school. She also wrote Building Patterns: The Architecture of Women’s Clothing, which is used as a textbook at Apparel Arts and other fashion design schools on the West Coast. Suzy's years of teaching experience and wealth of patternmaking experience make her lessons easy to follow and fun to use!
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