The puffed sleeve is indispensable in women's traditional costumes, but the puffy sleeve can also be seen on fashionable blouses, summer dresses and even T-shirts. Decorated with flowers, lace ribbons, borders, rickrack, ruffles or in a mix of …

Baby clothing should be as comfortable and functional as possible. This is all about sewing baby clothes yourself: patterns and important tips for sewing rompers and co.

Lapel and shawl collars are mostly drafted on the break line. But when the lapel will get a lager collar width or  a hollowed neckline the pattern construction should be drafted directly on the joined front and back pattern. 

Use a standard pants pattern with darts in size 40 (see measurement chart) as a foundation. Draw the new hemline 22 cm below the kneeline. Taper the outseam and inseam 1 cm at the knee and hemline.

The pattern sheet „Swimwear“ contains four designs in size 36 to 46. The technical drawing as well as the detailed description and measurement chart will help you gain insight of the pattern. In addition, we propose suitable fabrics and if …

On the subject of “Pinching”, we introduce more variations (see also DR10/2009) for dart manipulation. We show designs with crosswise seams, slanting seams, asymmetric seams and reduced darts. Those who master the technique of “Pinching” can …

The pattern chart „Basic Single Row Jacket Block Pattern“ has eight sizes: 44 - 46 - 48 - 50 - 52 - 54 - 56 - 58. The pattern is constructed including seam allowance. The technical drawing as well as the detailed description and measurement …

The pattern sheet „Sheath Dress with Sleeve Variants“ contains two designs in size 36 to 46. The technical drawing as well as the detailed description and measurement chart will help you gain insight of the pattern.

The full article includes all belowing variants with the measurement charts. This is an extract from our magazine Rundschau for women 9.2011. We show you one design of the five models to give you an insight into the pattern construction.