Pattern Studio A - We Bring Your Fashion Dreams To Life

Fashion Design Services

February 22, 2012 by admin 9 Comments

We Bring Your Fashion Dreams To Life

Fashion Design Services is happy to provide pattern making service to any Fashion Designer that needs production patterns made for your collection you’ve come to the right place. Pattern Making Services Will Bring Your Fashion Dreams To Life within the week. I can make your samples and then take you to the production house that will do all of your contract sewing. By appointment only. Please give me a call and I will schedule an appointment to review your business plan and collection sketches.
My direct line to Call is: 770-771-9212 Dean Dyer

Pattern Studio A offers Specific Patten Making Services to the Exceptionally talented designer in Atlanta and any other state. We Bring Your Fashion Dreams to Life without the worries and delays of a language brier making the process unnecessarily complicated.

The turn around time is within the month. Usually 3 – 7 days per pattern. I can make anything your fashion vision can think of, as long as it’s physically possible, and we follow the rules of physics, it can be developed. I don’t Drape or Make Children’s Clothes.I do everything completely by hand the old school way. No C.A.D or computer tech packs. However; all of my patterns are scan able on any digitizer machine to be imputed on to a computer program.
I make patterns for:

Jeans
Blouses
Shirts
Pants
Jumpsuits
Swim Wear

Men’s Wear and Women’s Wear are always the most busiest. Recently Plus Sizes and Bags have become very in demand. I have worked with stretch fabric for over 15 years. Also; I can work with canvas or neoprene, denim, or heaver. I can show you how to develop your own swim wear collection. Please watch my video on how to determine the stretch value of your fabric to manage your pattern, “Folding For Stretch“ video is the first of a video series that I’ve made just for you to get an understanding of the process that I know very well.

I construct rack ready presentation samples and develop production ready patterns for your Entire Collection. Helping you become the fashion designer of your dreams, is my main goal. I can bridge the gap between idea to reality, and deliver impeccable and accurate patterns and samples, that have excellent rack appeal.
No matter what body type or market you are targeting, Swimwear, casual wear, and even stage costumes. I can develop it within the week. Plus sizes, or extra small as well. I will make your presentation samples, and grade your pieces as you need them for your orders, on request. The turn around time is 7 to 14 days for patterns and 7 to 15 days for samples. Most times the delivery time is shorter. They are separate contracts.

I offer Fashion consulting and designing, recreation of vintage clothing, Grading, production pattern development, and sample construction. I can use other patterns for samples but definitely prefer not to. Launching your collection on time from Atlanta makes a powerful statement in the local industry. Made In Atlanta is the new slogan! I will not let you down. We Bring Your Fashion Dreams To Life, without the need for unnecessary travel. No more flying out of state or overseas for mini vacations and a bunch of hassles in countries that you might not speak the language in. It is impossible to do a fitting through the mail.You can review the status of your collection any time during regular hours.

Next I can refer you to several local contract sewing facilities and production houses that are driven by the commitment to quality and attention to detail.

Please make a comment to the box below to request an appointment and tell me about your vision and I will invite you to come to the studio, or I will come to yours and review your collection and begin your adventure as a working fashion designer.
Call Dean Dyer directly : 770-771-9212 or please sign in at the bottom box to request a meeting.

This is a slide show of some of my own collection of Men’s Shirts.

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Vintage Clothing Is on The Move

November 12, 2012 by admin 2 Comments

Vintage Clothing Is On The Move

Hey you guys have you seen how big Vintage Clothing is becoming lately.

There are a couple of ladies that are really kicking it in the *^# and I would like for you to check em out.

One of them is a really talented women. VeraVenus a designer & costumier with over 30 years of pattern designing and sewing experience coupled with a life long love of 30′s, 40′s & 50′s clothes.

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My next most favorite lady is Sarah lou of Saraloudesigns.com

Recently we created a few really nice dresses that you can see if you click on her pinit.

Source: veravenus.com via Dean on Pinterest

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Grading your Patterns

October 20, 2012 by admin Leave a Comment

Grading Your Patterns

This page is all about Grading Your Patterns, which is basically a process of mechanics that are accomplished by hand on a Sunny Young Speed Grader. This machine is still available in the garment industry, but it may take some deep research to find one.

There are many articles on how to grade in PDF form that can be very useful if you like reading technical manuals that is. This article I found to be interesting and, well written. It has a detailed explanation of grading and sizing.

An Investigation of the Sizing, Grading, and Fit – NCSU Digital …

The grading material that I use is by far the most durable and inexpensive way to preserve the life of your patterns, is called perma-plast they I get from Beaver Paper

in Suwanee GA.

This is the first video in a series in a few that I will be constructing in a short while.

You may ask me questions or contact me directly for more information .

Filed Under: Learning Pattern Making, Pattern Drafting Tools

Pencil Skirts

June 29, 2012 by admin Leave a Comment

Pencil Skirts

This page discusses the process of developing a pencil skirt pattern and the truing steps as it is being drafted. As a fashion student it’s always nice to have a resource for refreshing your memory, if you need to. As a designer myself I can appreciate that very much and I’m happy to share my strong points of development with you. Just to refresh your memory that is.

As you know that before we can develop any pattern we must use a master block to draft from. This is a primary starting point that some designers don’t actually understand in terms of the development process. As pattern making goes the first part of any development is the tracing of the master template on paper to create a design pattern. Then establish the size parameters and walk out the pattern pieces to the specified measurements, lengths and widths. This is covered in this first video as you can watch to learn:

I love making patterns, and in these videos I walk you through some of the important elements of developing a simple pencil skirt pattern that I do often for local Atlanta, GA designers I have contracts with. They are a culmination of my talents and expertise as a pattern maker and expert sewer.

If you would like to join my sewing class you may do so by making a comment in the box below or sending me a friend request on Facebook

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This is the finished skirt from this video.

Skirts are a major part of any wardrobe or collection in the fashion industry. The French designer Christian Dior introduced the classic modern pencil skirt in the late 1940s, using the term H-line to describe its shape. It is in stark contrast to Dior’s full-skirted New Look in his “A-line”. The pencil skirt quickly became very popular, particularly for office wear. This success was due to women’s desire for new fashions in the wake of Second World War rationing, coupled with the austere economic climate, when fabrics were expensive. The pencil skirt feels different from looser skirts, and can take some adjustment by the wearer in terms of movement and posture in order to manage it successfully. Walking needs to be done in short strides; entering and leaving a car gracefully takes practice; and when sitting the legs are held close together which some find restrictive (though others like the feeling of their legs being “hugged” by the skirt). Activities such as climbing ladders and riding bicycles can be very difficult in a pencil skirt. The pencil skirt is warmer due to the reduced ventilation, and is less likely to be blown up by gusts of wind.

What really helped me understand pattern drafting is Natalie Bray’s Book Dress Pattern Designing. The techniques Natalie Bray pioneered and perfected revolutionized dress pattern designing, assisting the rise of the modern fashion industry. Her teaching has had a profound influence on design, production and education and her works are classics: fashions change but the principles of designing patterns in the flat do not. Is a quote from the Amazon catalog that I indorse whole heatedly.
I highly recommend that you buy Dress Pattern Designing by Natalie Bray It is the most popular of Natalie Bray’s three works. Please join me on my facebook page Thank you.

Stay tuned for the next video on the master pattern development process by Natalie Bray… where I show you how I use the book to learn all the details about the master Block.

I do all of my sewing on this really excellent commercial quality home sewing machine, that as you can see delivers an impeccable garment when used correctly. It’s the best sewing machine I’ve had in a long time. A Brother ES-2000 Sewing machine is really fast and durable.

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Folding For Stretch

May 2, 2012 by admin Leave a Comment

I remember when spandex fabric came out back in the late 80′s and it was the rage. Folding For Stretch suddenly became a necessary process in order for everyone to use it in all the sports wear, and swim suits. As well as stage costumes and just about anything else that a hot body would look good in.

But very few designers really knew how to use it correctly, at that time and still many are having trouble today. That’s why I’ve made this video. Determining the stretch value of the fabric is the key to the whole process, because the pattern has to be prepared specific to the fabric’s stretch value. As in the video the fabric is calculated by pulling it the way of the stretch and noting the bodge in the fabric at the crest of the pull, and then folding that amount out of the pattern. All of this is explained in the video below.

What’s really great about this process today is, now that everyone knows how to do it there are so many varieties of clothes that are made from the fabric and so many cool books that you can learn how to fold for stretch. Design and Patternmaking for Stretch Fabrics is one book that is very good. It provides the design student or working designer with the essential information for understanding the specifics of knit fabrics and the pattern making process for different garments. Fibers, dyes, treatments, care, and fabric sources are discussed, along with the principles of sizing and measuring for womens, mens, petite, plus sizes, and half sizes. Chapters focusing on particular garments begin with a draft of a sloper block. The sloper block is a wide subject, so it’s best that you follow the book closely. You can also buy clothes and/or fabrics of all kinds too, at much better prices than local retail…Check out the carousel and go shopping.

And whats really great is you can check out all the latest styles in the swim suit market is you go to the amazon shopping store:The swim wear Shopping Link

Stay tuned for more videos on how I make swim suits. It’s a neat process that you will like and be able to use in your own collection. If you have any questions on the subject feel free to send me an email and ask me a question.

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