Trace your skirt blocks onto paper.
Box pleat skirt pattern drafting.
For eg take the case of a skirt yoke with box pleats attached sewing pattern and tutorial for pleated skirt here measure the bottom edge of the yoke full round you have finished.
Remove your block after you have finished tracing and marking points then.
Then add the desired amount of volume in the middle.
Draw in the darts.
Make a mark at the start of this.
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Just cut the pattern in half like in the drawing following the dart lines at the upper part.
In this version the pleats will be placed exactly where the darts are.
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Drafting the inverted box pleat skirt figure 1.
Take up your ruler and pencil and mark in a straight line along the bottom edge of the paper running the entire length.
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Mark the cf and cb.
Mark the centre of the pleat from the hemline upwards.
Make sure you mark the dart legs the dart points and the hip notches.
Preparing to draft the skirt pattern.
This page shows how to draft a skirt pattern using your skirt block.
A pleated skirt with a flat front gives you the swing of pleats without all of the bulk.
Sewing tutorial for this pattern here https youtu be i0ihk3hsn e see.
A reader got in touch yesterday and asked me about how i worked out the pleats in my box pleated skirt so i thought i d post the info for doing.
The box pleat kind of makes this skirt look like culottes.
To start take the skirt pattern you would like to add a pleat to.
I chose to use the basic a line skirt block that i have made a tutorial for here.
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Start by placing the paper in front if you with the paper length closest to you rather than the width.
Take this as a 44.
Drafting the inverted box pleat skirt figure 2.