You are very giving with your knowledge. I'm an old lady now, but as a young girl I dreamed of being a fashion designer (well, once I realized I was never going to be a dancer on the Red Skelton show.....lol.) College of any type was pretty much out of reach, so my sewing was limited to the Vogue patterns I could buy. Now I enjoy sewing clothes for my granddaughter and dolls. To have the knowledge of how to transfer an idea to a drape and then to a pattern is something I've hungered for for many years. Thank you for your kindness in sharing.
Finding your channel was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I learned so much from binge watching your videos and putting them into practice
Nick, you have a true gift, not just as a fashion designer, but also with the art of teaching. Not many can explain complex topics in a manner that's easily understood. Your delightful and ingenius insertion of humor is a big part of that teaching gift and really helps others remember your lectures/demonstrations. As an Arkansan, I love when your southern accent/slang breaks through. You make learning an absolute blast! ❤
My parents were in the fashion business. My dad was the fashion designer and my mom was sawing the fabric. Pretty much most of my family is into the fashion. I was the one that chose a career in the beauty industry. But nonetheless, I was always drawing different fashion ideas on paper but never pursue it as career. Lately though, I find myself wanting to know everything about fashion from start to finish and reclaim my family name back into the fashion business and actually become the fashion designer my dad was hoping and dreaming I would become. I guess he saw that I have something within me to offer the world with my ideas, but I never believed that I could do it . I guess now I am ready to do this career change for myself and for my dads legacy. Thank you for everything you teach!
When I was little, I mastered Cottenelle and Tape masterpieces for my Barbie Doll. Then I pretty much --- grew into that figure, where ready made garments always had to be professionally altered. Now I am recovering from a major ankle surgery, have had the time, and been following most every seamstress here on RUclips, learning how to sew. I know have the know how, but no experience sewing. I haven't even ran a seam on the sewing machine I just bought! Nick, I am so enjoying your lessons! The magic? You are THE ONLY ONE here on RUclips to show us how to transfer the drape bodice onto paper! Really! You must know how exciting this is for me? You are also the only one who showed us how to draw a Crochie. Thank you for being a superbly detailed teacher! Challenge? Could you design and walk us through a Fashion Dress with side inserts (or multiple side inserts) that really emphasis the waist? Have a wonderful day and Thanksgiving!
Hi! I love your enthusiasm! Thank you for making these videos! At 29 years, life for me is taking a new direction. I have always enjoyed sewing, it's my dream to learn to draft patterns and create beautiful dresses and help others do it too. We'll see where it goes! Your videos are fantastic! Thanks again!
I just love you! You are teaching me so much and I wish I could give you a hug!!! My daughter and I donate our time and money to sew prom dresses to families in need in a very small town in Western Pennsylvania. We've been to the Mood Fabric shop in NYC twice and bumped into Project Runway's Helen both times!!! Wish we could see you there next time we go! Thank you Nic for all you do.
I watched your other video on draping and then you used the cloth....I wasn't understanding why you had used it...then this video....OMG...lifechanging. I can use this to make my own patterns/draping over my dressmaker doll......hello honey. Signed, new to sewing. XO fm Canada.
I have been sewing for years, and have never seen the many steps to creating a drape and then a pattern. I am gaining a deeper understanding of the process, what can go wrong and what I can do to get a better fit. Thank you so much for being so very generous with your knowledge. Just love your videos!
I adore you! You are a fantastic teacher. Thanks to you I now know how to grade patterns and. I had a pattern class in pattern making but I could not understand.
You're such an inspiration Nick, I could never wrap my head around patterns but your draping methods are compelling me to buy a mannequin and get drafting. Thank you! Love from England xx
I started making mask and voila, ended up with Nick videos making my first everything, hope to end up making TUTU's for the ballet (I know tall order) Thank you tons handsome Nick.
I didn't get a chance to learn draping when I was doing pattern classes. This is helping me so much. I have so many designs I want to make but I just couldn't do it with the flat pattern technique.
I love watching you and listening to you Mr Verreos 😃. I'm am in my 50s and starting to design my own tops for the first time. I have watched you videos are they very helpful and inspiring , and you make me laugh. I'm going to check out your book too. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and in such a fun way.
Hello, Nick. Thank you - I'm very grateful for your instructional videos. I'm a very basic kind of seamstress - minor clothing repair, hemming, etc., with very little experience in garment-making, which I have found to be a bit intimidating. Your instructions have broken the process down into what seem to be manageable steps, and I am inspired to attempt to create my own dresses. Thank you! Please wish me luck! Trish
Fascinating. When watching Project Runway, I was always left wondering what steps were either not filmed or edited out between draping and sewing. Now I know how it's done. Mystery solved. Thanks.
Hello Sir Nick, Just wanna ask if you have a video for a basic bodice/sloper pattern making in a pattern paper step by step? :) newbie here. Thankyou sir! 😊
Where do I start nick to learn from the beginning which videos do you recommend to watch in order from a to z.. Thank you for all you're doing for us because of you I can not wait to start making something magnificent! I always want to learn how to make dresses.
Thanks for your videos; You are a true teacher and I love your way of explaining and your charisma. I need to create a basic pattern for a client and her measurements do not match those of my manikin. Do you have any tutorial where you show the technique to create the pattern without the help of the maniqui?
Hi nick! Ur videos are so great, but can you create a video on draping and patternmaking the back please! I’m honing my technical skills are your videos are amazing!!
Hi Nick.....absolutely love, love your videos. I have a question about the darts (and I hope it is not a silly one as I am new to this). Why do you add a 1/2 inch seam allowance to the darts? Why would you not stitch on your first marked line? I can understand why you need seam allowances everywhere else but this one baffles me. Ooops ok should have watched it right to the end (me bad). I see you are taking the bulk out of the middle and then you actually are stitching on the orginal line as you have that 1/2" seam allowance which allows that. So do you always trim out the middle of your darts and if so why?
What is the purpose of keeping the scissors in contact with the table for? And by the way, I love your videos. You make it very easy and understandable. Out of curiousity, would you do a video of how to read and follow directions in a written pattern?! Many of the terms and how they are written are so confusing to me. And I can't wait to see you do the video of how to copy a manufactured garment. I have several tops and bottoms that are no longer made that I would like to recreate.
Hi Debee! The reason I do that is to take away some of the dart intake bulk--in fabric, that is. Sometimes, it creates too much bulk in the garment inside so....I take that away by just removing everything that is not needed, except for the seam allowance. Also, it makes it much easier to sew the dart...by following the seam allowance, of course. XO, Nick
Thank you for this video. I recently found you and you make my day. I’d love to see a couple more pattern making videos. I drape beautiful wedding gowns but when I go to make the pattern from my drape and sew the muslin it turns into a mess and I’m starting to loose confidence. Everything lined up beautifully in my drapes however :(.
I'm a huge fan and new to the sewing techniques, question about darts ... are they needed in every garment and if I want to not add them I just tape or pin like you did ?
Hi Nick great video! I watched the previous video of draping a basic bodice. Problem is I don't have a dress form, I have a torso mannequin. DO you think it would work? Of course it's not pin-able but maybe i can use tape? Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful videotutorial! Do you usually have only one dart at the waist, or you also add a bust one? If so, how do you drape/pattern it? Thanks!
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You are very giving with your knowledge. I'm an old lady now, but as a young girl I dreamed of being a fashion designer (well, once I realized I was never going to be a dancer on the Red Skelton show.....lol.) College of any type was pretty much out of reach, so my sewing was limited to the Vogue patterns I could buy. Now I enjoy sewing clothes for my granddaughter and dolls. To have the knowledge of how to transfer an idea to a drape and then to a pattern is something I've hungered for for many years. Thank you for your kindness in sharing.
Finding your channel was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I learned so much from binge watching your videos and putting them into practice
You ❤️ make things so simple you cut through the fluff
This is probably the most comprehensive tutorial I’ve ever seen. You explain everything so well, in detail and with a bit of humor. Bravo!
Nick, you have a true gift, not just as a fashion designer, but also with the art of teaching. Not many can explain complex topics in a manner that's easily understood. Your delightful and ingenius insertion of humor is a big part of that teaching gift and really helps others remember your lectures/demonstrations. As an Arkansan, I love when your southern accent/slang breaks through. You make learning an absolute blast! ❤
My parents were in the fashion business. My dad was the fashion designer and my mom was sawing the fabric.
Pretty much most of my family is into the fashion. I was the one that chose a career in the beauty industry.
But nonetheless, I was always drawing different fashion ideas on paper but never pursue it as career.
Lately though, I find myself wanting to know everything about fashion from start to finish and reclaim my family name back into the fashion business and actually become the fashion designer my dad was hoping and dreaming I would become.
I guess he saw that I have something within me to offer the world with my ideas, but I never believed that I could do it .
I guess now I am ready to do this career change for myself and for my dads legacy.
Thank you for everything you teach!
your the best teacher i have ever seen.you make everything so easy and amazing!thank you so much!
Yes he is...
When I was little, I mastered Cottenelle and Tape masterpieces for my Barbie Doll. Then I pretty much --- grew into that figure, where ready made garments always had to be professionally altered.
Now I am recovering from a major ankle surgery, have had the time, and been following most every seamstress here on RUclips, learning how to sew. I know have the know how, but no experience sewing. I haven't even ran a seam on the sewing machine I just bought!
Nick, I am so enjoying your lessons! The magic? You are THE ONLY ONE here on RUclips to show us how to transfer the drape bodice onto paper! Really! You must know how exciting this is for me?
You are also the only one who showed us how to draw a Crochie. Thank you for being a superbly detailed teacher!
Challenge? Could you design and walk us through a Fashion Dress with side inserts (or multiple side inserts) that really emphasis the waist? Have a wonderful day and Thanksgiving!
Love Love your demonstration in how to make a pattern. You are very clear appreciate the step by step
Hi! I love your enthusiasm! Thank you for making these videos! At 29 years, life for me is taking a new direction. I have always enjoyed sewing, it's my dream to learn to draft patterns and create beautiful dresses and help others do it too. We'll see where it goes! Your videos are fantastic! Thanks again!
I just love you! You are teaching me so much and I wish I could give you a hug!!! My daughter and I donate our time and money to sew prom dresses to families in need in a very small town in Western Pennsylvania. We've been to the Mood Fabric shop in NYC twice and bumped into Project Runway's Helen both times!!! Wish we could see you there next time we go! Thank you Nic for all you do.
I watched your other video on draping and then you used the cloth....I wasn't understanding why you had used it...then this video....OMG...lifechanging. I can use this to make my own patterns/draping over my dressmaker doll......hello honey. Signed, new to sewing. XO fm Canada.
I have been sewing for years, and have never seen the many steps to creating a drape and then a pattern. I am gaining a deeper understanding of the process, what can go wrong and what I can do to get a better fit. Thank you so much for being so very generous with your knowledge. Just love your videos!
I adore you! You are a fantastic teacher. Thanks to you I now know how to grade patterns and. I had a pattern class in pattern making but I could not understand.
Where have you been my whole life?? I love you! Thank you for this!!!
Wow Nick, you explain things so well. I am learning so much from your videos. Thank you ten fold
I can't t skip your video everyday! Fantastic! Ty ty ty!
I love watching Nick- great teacher and so generous sharing his knowledge
You're such an inspiration Nick, I could never wrap my head around patterns but your draping methods are compelling me to buy a mannequin and get drafting. Thank you! Love from England xx
I'm learning so much from your tutorials ❤
Thank you, Nick! You are my very first draping/drafting teacher! I'm enjoying your videos.
You are the best. I love your sweet way of teaching. I wish you the best so keep doing more videos. Every i learn more thanks to you🏆🙏🙏🏅
Please add more videos because that would be great! And in the future, I will thank you personally Nick because you're a great teacher 😍 Much love!
he explains everything so easily and makes everything easy even for me
I started making mask and voila, ended up with Nick videos making my first everything, hope to end up making TUTU's for the ballet (I know tall order) Thank you tons handsome Nick.
so good. damn ive seriously watched a million tutorials and finding any good draping ones is impossible. thnk u. ur funny as hell.
I didn't get a chance to learn draping when I was doing pattern classes. This is helping me so much. I have so many designs I want to make but I just couldn't do it with the flat pattern technique.
I love watching you and listening to you Mr Verreos 😃. I'm am in my 50s and starting to design my own tops for the first time. I have watched you videos are they very helpful and inspiring , and you make me laugh. I'm going to check out your book too. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and in such a fun way.
Hello, Nick. Thank you - I'm very grateful for your instructional videos. I'm a very basic kind of seamstress - minor clothing repair, hemming, etc., with very little experience in garment-making, which I have found to be a bit intimidating. Your instructions have broken the process down into what seem to be manageable steps, and I am inspired to attempt to create my own dresses. Thank you! Please wish me luck! Trish
Fascinating. When watching Project Runway, I was always left wondering what steps were either not filmed or edited out between draping and sewing. Now I know how it's done. Mystery solved. Thanks.
Thank you again Nick. You bring joy to my day.
Thank you !! I've been sewing free handed for a while now but I want to focus on doing it properly and your videos are very helpful 😊.
I fall in love with you soo smart way to explane even the most complicated things in such shinny and smily mode..
An Excellent teacher. You provide all the details in an easy to understand way. Thanks Nick!
You make everything so simple and easy to understand. 👍
This video is amazing! So much information, brief precise and to the point. Thank you so much Nick, I will watch them all and buy your book!
You inspired me to start making my own fashion collection. And I start learning more tricks. Thank you
you are so happy!!! I think I found my favorite teacher
thank you. I've been "cloning" my clothes to make new patterns. I'm so glad to learn the pro way!
Cyndel2006 I've been doing the same thank god for his dress form video
You are everything!!! I was so confused about pattern making, but now I get it. 😊 Thank you.
I love this series....thanks so much!!!! You're empowering me!!!! I just purchased my first real dress form!!!
I'm just now finding your videos and I enjoy them! Could you do one on drafting a pattern on paper with just measurements? Thanks!
I never thought you could cut the dart open like that Love your videos thanks Nick. :)
You're so amazing and a joy to watch. Thanks for these informative courses, Nick.
ugh now it all makes sense. thank you! pattern from draping is much easier than measurements way
Kim Nguyen agree
Hi Nick! Can you make more videos again? I wish all my fashion teachers were as fun as you! ☺️✨
Love your videos! I been looking for easy fun tutorials and you are the best so far. Thank you!
Love you professor. You are a huge help for the self lerner like me.
Hello Sir Nick, Just wanna ask if you have a video for a basic bodice/sloper pattern making in a pattern paper step by step? :) newbie here. Thankyou sir! 😊
Love all your videos! Wish I was one of your students
Where do I start nick to learn from the beginning which videos do you recommend to watch in order from a to z.. Thank you for all you're doing for us because of you I can not wait to start making something magnificent! I always want to learn how to make dresses.
draping a basic blouse and then make a pattern from the drape. one idea!! thank you. great!!
Thanks for your videos; You are a true teacher and I love your way of explaining and your charisma. I need to create a basic pattern for a client and her measurements do not match those of my manikin. Do you have any tutorial where you show the technique to create the pattern without the help of the maniqui?
Oh, Nick!! You're the best! I loooooooooove your vids. I am ordering your book RIGHT NOW! Plus you are suuuuper funny! Love all the way from India!
Thank you! This is really helpful. I'm gonna make my own dress, base on your tutorial. I hope it success. Thanks again!! 👍
Hi nick! Ur videos are so great, but can you create a video on draping and patternmaking the back please! I’m honing my technical skills are your videos are amazing!!
Thank you soooo much, you make it so easy to understand. I totally love your channel x
Hi Nick.....absolutely love, love your videos. I have a question about the darts (and I hope it is not a silly one as I am new to this). Why do you add a 1/2 inch seam allowance to the darts? Why would you not stitch on your first marked line? I can understand why you need seam allowances everywhere else but this one baffles me. Ooops ok should have watched it right to the end (me bad). I see you are taking the bulk out of the middle and then you actually are stitching on the orginal line as you have that 1/2" seam allowance which allows that. So do you always trim out the middle of your darts and if so why?
Loved it. I think I can manage the front side . But how do I do
the back side !!!!
Man you are awesome! Love from Pakistan, Peshawar ❤️
love your teachings! so informative and understandable! god bless your work x
Dear Lagavale Tapuala-Unasa:
Thank you for your LOVELY comment here! (I'm blushing!)
XO--Nick
I enjoy your videos Nick, thank you, Would you consider doing a video on how to make a bodice sloper or bodice block please?
Wow🤩
Sir please make full video of draping to dress
Like showing each step darping then Patten trueing then stitching and final garment
Do you have a video on how to make and do a corset ?
Love your teachings!!!!!! So informative!
Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial! This is so clear and easy to understand and also fun to watch! Keep up the good work!
WOW ! It helps me a lot and It feels like Im attending a fashions school! Thanksss
What is the purpose of keeping the scissors in contact with the table for? And by the way, I love your videos. You make it very easy and understandable. Out of curiousity, would you do a video of how to read and follow directions in a written pattern?! Many of the terms and how they are written are so confusing to me. And I can't wait to see you do the video of how to copy a manufactured garment. I have several tops and bottoms that are no longer made that I would like to recreate.
Oh thanks, I never saw anyone add seam allowance to the dart legs. do you mind explaining why you like it better than sewing the folded dart?
Hi Debee! The reason I do that is to take away some of the dart intake bulk--in fabric, that is. Sometimes, it creates too much bulk in the garment inside so....I take that away by just removing everything that is not needed, except for the seam allowance. Also, it makes it much easier to sew the dart...by following the seam allowance, of course. XO, Nick
Thank u Nick!! You are awesome, can’t wait to learn something new from every video👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
What kind of ruler did you use? Not the curved one but the one straight transparent one ?
Thank you for this video. I recently found you and you make my day. I’d love to see a couple more pattern making videos. I drape beautiful wedding gowns but when I go to make the pattern from my drape and sew the muslin it turns into a mess and I’m starting to loose confidence. Everything lined up beautifully in my drapes however :(.
I LOVE, love your videos Nick, I am learning so much! Thank you!!
I am learning so much from this video :)
i learned more in this video than a semester in fashion school
thank you so much Sir... you're so great and very nice teaching.. I'm so grateful to find your channel... more power and God bless you always 😘😍👍👏
Does anyone know what type of scissors those are. I would like to purchase those particular scissors in that brand for pattern scissors.
Very helpful, thank you. I noticed that you cut out the dart instead of just folding the fabric. Is that to minimize excess fabric?
Thank you so very much for all your wonderful lessons. I have learnt so much from you. Wonderful presentation :-)
oh yes and maybe even see you actually sew the pattern out or who ever you have do your sewing. That would be awesome!! Love your show anyway.
I'm a huge fan and new to the sewing techniques, question about darts ... are they needed in every garment and if I want to not add them I just tape or pin like you did ?
How do I transfer the pattern to the fabric without cutting it when I get all the pins done?
Omg I just love you. You are soo funny and so informative.
How do you make this pink dress with wrinkle drape next to you?
You are the best teacher
I understand the front is folded in half. However, what about the back? How do you make that part?
OK that is so helpful tysm
Can you tell us how to make a drape completely from starch
Hi Nick great video! I watched the previous video of draping a basic bodice. Problem is I don't have a dress form, I have a torso mannequin. DO you think it would work? Of course it's not pin-able but maybe i can use tape? Thanks!
Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing.
I L❤ve your Nick Tricks! 👌😊
I don't get which dart leg is "closest" to the waist?
Does it have to be dotted paper
Well done videos I enjoy all of them!😻
Thank you for sharing this wonderful videotutorial! Do you usually have only one dart at the waist, or you also add a bust one? If so, how do you drape/pattern it? Thanks!
Excellent brevity! Love your color combos! :)
Can your next video be on how to grade a pattern to your size
i am honored to leave the first comment on nicks video
This is sooo helpful! Love your channel!
Thank you Shandra!
MUAH XO--Nick
Where can I buy the paper that Nick is using?
I wish u were my teacher back in fashion school 😩
Hey Nick ,can you please show how to drape caftans