Ultimate Guide to Designing Patterns for Clothing: Learn about the Architecture of Garment Design, Essential Tips and Techniques

If you’ve watched Project Runway or Making the Cut and wondered how the competitors instinctively know how to create such a diverse array of garments - it’s because they learned the art of pattern making. Ultimate Guide to Designing Patterns for Clothing is an illustrative master class in the art of garment pattern making for aspiring fashion designers, fashion design students, and sewing and fabric enthusiasts. Lifelong designer and patternmaker Suzy Furrer has distilled her 35+ years of fashion pattern experience into this definitive resource for expert pattern making instruction. The book includes 11 chapters, each meticulously explaining a fundamental element of the pattern making process. Each element is fully explored with diagrams and illustrations making it ideal for visual learners. Furrer begins with an introduction to pattern making - explaining what is required for building a proper patternmaking tool kit and terminology used throughout the book before guiding the budding pattern maker through the 11 instructional chapters.

Suzy Furrer is the founder/director of Apparel Arts Productions, an online fashion design school. Through her books and online classes, she’s been teaching the art of fashion design since 2011, bringing her 35+ years of design experience to aspiring fashion creatives across the world. She’s a regular at sewing & crafts conferences as well as a frequent guest speaker at art schools. Over the years, her expertise has earned her a reputation for making high-concept fashion designs more accessible to students looking for the most essential patterns in fashion and clothing design.