Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine job requirements
- Prepare to develop patterns
- Set up workstation and patternmaking tools and equipment
- Analyse design to identify appropriate modifications
- Identify fabric performance characteristics that may affect garment pattern and determine ease allowance
- Plan pattern development according to quality standards and workplace procedures
- Select appropriate block
- Apply basic patternmaking principles to develop patterns
- Apply patternmaking principles in developing patterns
- Document methods and formulas used
- Check pattern pieces for accuracy, including seam and ease allowances, seam match, hems and functional openings
- Label all pattern pieces, including grain lines, notches, pattern information and cutting instructions
- Test patterns and complete work