The Pattern Drafting Sessions.
Learn to draft your own blocks and bring your creative visions to life
Passionate about sewing and eager to bring your design ideas to life? Join us for a series of pattern drafting classes focused on the bodice, pants block and dart manipulation.
In 2027, join us for a year of drafting workshops with Zoe.
Zoe takes her experience in fashion education and breaks traditional pattern making systems down in a way that requires no prior fashion industry knowledge. Her approach focuses more on how cloth responds to the body’s movement and proportions rather than relying solely on rigid drafting formulas.
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Create your very own bodice block and learn to manipulate darts to create different designs.
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Create a trousers block at your own measurement to then create patterns.
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Learn how to recognize fit issues and how to fix them on a muslin and pattern. We will cover the top part first, secondly the bottom part of the body.
Bodice and Dart Manipulation
Coming on Sundays 17th, 24th & 31th January 2027
Interested in this class? Fill out the form to know when registration opens!
Draft your Trousers
Coming on Sundays 7th, 21st February & March 7
Interested in this class? Fill out the form to know when registration opens!
Trousers Block Drafting & Fit
How to take lower body measurements
How measurements relate to flat pattern making techniques
The differences between trouser fit and jean fit
How to create and sew a sample toile
How to identify and correct fit issues
How to transfer corrections back to the original draft
How to create a finalized hard copy block for future use
Students will walk away with a personalized trousers block, fitted toile that can be used repeatedly as the foundation for future garment designs.
Bodice Block & Dart Manipulations
How to draft a bodice to your own measurements
How to sew a toile and make modifications
Report your fit modifications to your draft
Learn how to manipulate darts to create new designs
Students will walk away with a deeper understanding of bodice, manipulation techniques and the knowledge needed to continue developing and constructing their own custom garments.
Class registration coming soon!
Start date: January 17th
Schedule: every Sunday mornings for 3 weeks/4 hours
Student level: you should know how to use a machine and have pants and top construction experience.
Class registration coming soon!
Start date: February 7th
Schedule: every Sunday mornings for 3 weeks/4 hours
Student level: you should know how to use a machine and have pants and top construction experience.
Fitting sessions
Coming soon! March 21st & April 4th.
About your instructor
Zoe Cobb is a fashion educator, designer, and owner of Atelier IV, a high-end drapery and soft goods workroom based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her career began in 2006 as a lab technician at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where she had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from highly esteemed colleagues who had worked with designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen, as well as tailors from London’s famous Savile Row.
In 2018, Zoe joined the faculty at California College of the Arts, where she currently teaches pattern making, draping, and sewing courses. Alongside her teaching practice and work at Atelier IV, her personal work is deeply rooted in slow fashion, repair, and traditional fiber arts, including screen printing, chainstitch embroidery, knitting, crochet, and natural dyeing using plants grown in her own garden.
Her approach to draping and pattern making breaks traditional systems down in a way that focuses more on how cloth responds to the body’s movement and proportions.
