Designing Garments with Suzy Furrer 3-Class Set (DVD + Streaming)

Achieve your design aspirations and enhance your patternmaking skills with Suzy Furrer. In this comprehensive 3-class set, Suzy will guide you through the process of creating the perfect tops, pants, jackets, and more. Utilize your sloper to design a stylish kimono jacket, sophisticated palazzo pants, and master the art of drafting pattern pieces for two-piece sleeves. Gain confidence as you learn advanced techniques such as drafting welt pockets, inside zipper pockets, bound buttonholes, and even a coat hook. Suzy’s expertise will empower you to meet your design goals and create garments with precision and style!

For a more detailed summary of each class included in this set, see the “Classes Included” tab below.

NOTE: After purchase, all streaming classes within this set will be made available in your Craftsy account. You will be able to enjoy your purchased classes within your library anytime without losing access. The DVDs will be shipped to you.

Designing Your Wardrobe: Drafting Tops (2h 29m)
Picturing the ultimate well-fitting top? Now you can draft a pattern for it! Apparel Arts design school founder Suzy Furrer shows you how to use your sloper to create a shell, a tee, a peplum top and a kimono jacket.

Designing Your Wardrobe: Drafting Pants (2h 27m)
Learn to draft perfect patterns for well-fitting pants.

Join design-school founder Suzy Furrer in using your new sloper to draft pants. Walk away with three new styles under your belt: casual drawstring pants, sophisticated palazzo pants and classic, flat-front tailored trousers.

Designing Your Wardrobe: Drafting the Tailored Jacket or Coat (3h 25m)
Draft a pattern for a sophisticated jacket or coat with customizable details.

Ready to test your patternmaking skills? Master designer and pattern drafter Suzy Furrer shares in-depth tips and techniques to help you draft a full set of patterns for a chic, tailored jacket using your own well-fitting bodice sloper. Learn how to draft pattern pieces for two-piece sleeves, welt pockets, an inside zipper pocket, bound buttonholes and even a coat hook.

Suzy Furrer

Suzy Furrer has over 35 years’ experience in the fashion industry. She began her career as a freelance patternmaker and directed the development of capsule collections for small fashion companies. Suzy is the Founder and Director of Apparel Arts (established 1996) and Apparel Arts Productions (www.ApparelArtsProductions.com), an online fashion design school established in 2020. Suzy developed a comprehensive curriculum to give students in-depth training to be strong candidates to enter the workforce in apparel or costume design or to simply build strong sewing and drafting skills for one’s own personal use. Apparel Arts has graduated hundreds of students who currently work in the apparel or costuming industries. In addition, she has been an instructor for GAP Inc.’s Product Development Immersion Program. Suzy teaches and speaks at sewing and craft conferences, sewing guilds, and art schools and has taught classes for the employees of entertainment giants Pixar and Lucas Films. She is the author of Building Patterns, The Architecture of Women’s Clothing. Last, but not least, Suzy has taught online pattern drafting classes for Craftsy.com since 2011.

Each class in this set comes with a helpful downloadable PDF that will add to the fun and success of each class. In total, you will gain access to 3 PDFs containing 50 pages of content, which you can view online anytime or print out to reference.