Basic block pattern

Make your own garments with this free bodice block from Ralph Pink.com

Learn to draft a basic skirt pattern based on your body measurements. No math is needed, a custom step-by-step drafting tutorial is included.

Buy licensed basic blocks and basic sewing patterns to give to your students for use in your online pattern making course.

I made quarter scale versions of a few of the half scale sloper/basic block patterns I developed to fit my paper and stuffed half scale dress forms. I’m putting the quarter scale patterns out…

Use this Womens Basic Trouser Block Pattern to develop a whole range of trouser silhouettes and fittings. Sizes 10 to 22 all on one coloured chart!

If you love to sew your own clothes, you’ve definitely come across and used commercial sewing patterns at some point, but did you know that those patterns originate from blocks or slopers? And those blocks and slopers are created using a technique called pattern drafting. Pattern drafting is a pattern making process using the measurements of different body areas to create basic patterns – or blueprints if you like – of essential pattern blocks – this is often referred to as a pattern set!

Here is an easy way of drafting a basic bodice block with no darts. This dartless bodice block can be foundation pattern for endless designs

Bunka style blocks a lot here. It is one of the simplest, and yet at the same time, more complex blocks we have come across. Bunka Fashion College is from Japan, and they use the Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) sizes to develop their basic blocks.