Okay, let's drape a dress. I started with a piece of muslin 20 inches across and the length is really up to you how long you want your dress. I made it the length of the form. I'm going to start with the neckline Obviously, I'm going to bring my form down to my eye level so I can see better. And just like we did in the bodice, you want to have a few inches, maybe three inches so and then the neckline starts. So I'm going to put a little cross mark a pin and a cross mark.

And once again, I'm going to start by watching this go across and going up just like we did in the bodice and then And we'll go down towards the neck line. And as releasing the Muslim saw that it falls flat onto the form. You want to decide what shape you want your dress to be. In this case, I'm going to keep it fairly rectangular, very slim. So what happens is that what are we going to do with all this fabric? So I'm going to pin center front as we always do, and put a few pins right here and here at the waistline and keeping this slim, then the question is, okay, well if I'm going to keep this slim, I'm smoothing my muslin all around the hip area, and then I'm left with all this fabric.

I'm going to keep my shoulder clean, no, no dirt on top. I'm going to put the dog Right into into the sightseeing. So I'm going to temporarily put a pin or two, just to keep this in shape. I'm going to come back to that I want to minimize all this extra fabric. So I'm just going to go ahead and cut most of this. And remember I said that in the class number one, it said that draping can be part of the creative process.

And as a sculptor, you keep chipping away at the Muslim until you get the right shape that you want. So here's my Muslim my hip area, I'm going to put a few pins on my forearm on my Muslim so it stays in place. I want some ease. You don't want to skin tight. So I'm going to put some ease in in the Muslim as part of the draping process and smooth your muslins so that this becomes my chart. I'm going to go back to the start here and create a dart that will go from the apex into the sightseeing.

So take any excess fabric and pin it right through and through so that you have what will become a dart and all this extra fabric is gonna get in the way so I'm just going to chip away and get rid of it. So I'm going to pin my lip here so it stays in place. Put a pin at the neck line, shoulder corner. This is nice and flat. Put a pin with it. showed them.

It's the armhole. Let's put a pin right here. Okay, again lifting the form. Okay, maybe one a little more, II. So I'm just gonna give it more flavor here like this, so it's not so tight. Put a few pins back in place on my dress for on the side seam.

And there's my Dart intake. Alright, take my pencil or marker, and I'm gonna mark here and here so that I can remove this pin and fold the dark so that one leg of the dark number the legs or the dark, one leg falls on top of the other. I'm going to pin My Dart closed. If you really want to get creative and have fun with it, take a piece of elastic or a spaghetti strap, something that you can tie around the waist like this. And then you can work your Muslim and manipulate your Muslim to create a difference different shape. So, for example, I can put a belt, some belt loops or create shirring like gathers Or I can take all this excess fabric and turn it into pleats or tux or darts.

In my patternmaking course I review the difference between a Dart, a plate and a tuck. So you can apply those principles in a draping process while you're draping your Muslim. Next is basically a matter of marking all your drapes using your pen or pencil. If you want to mark your waistline so that the seamstress knows where the elastic or belt loop or wherever you want to put in there just, you want to lower the for mark your shoulder And the armhole and your size and so on. Now, do you remember that little circle skirt that we did? Remember that now watch.

You can actually sew this onto a dress and add a little peplum to your dress. And you can make several layers of this. You can have a short, medium and long and they have a a layered look course you're not stuck to this particular neckline. Maybe you want to have a scoop neck like a V neck, something like that. Right? You can do that.

Then you decide what neck line you Want and again, the sculptor that you are with your scissors in hand, you can shape your neck line, something like this where you can eliminate some of this excess fabric here and have more battler see though, the possibilities are endless when it comes to draping. This is where the fun really happens because you can play around and, and create pleats and tucks and gathers and shirring shape neck lines, etc, etc. Okay. All right, well, this brings us to the completion of our basic draping course. I hope you've enjoyed The course. And like I said in the first class draping can be it should be as a source of inspiration.

Be creative, have fun. Go to a fabric store near you get some really cool, beautiful pink fabric and start draping. Start creating these wonderful ideas that are running in your head. And if you're not sure what to do, don't worry about it. It'll talk to you. It'll tell you what it needs to do.

The fabric wants to trust you. Feel free to email me questions. Let me know what you want to see next. And I hope to see you all on the runway.