Want to improve your draping skills? In this video I share ALL the tips, tricks and draping knowledge I've gained over the past decade creating patterns for the biggest names at Paris and London Fashion week, including Alexander McQueen and Jenny Packham. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN 00:00 - Intro 00:10 - Set Yourself Up for Success 02:28 - 7 Draping Tips 05:04 - How to Mark Your Drape 09:28 - How to Remove Your Drape 09:52 - Make Deconstruction Notes 11:02 - Turn Drape into Pattern 14:41 - Moment of Truth But the BEST WAY to improve your draping skills is to practice. Watch this video to learn all the tips and tricks. Then, create small draped sections on a mannequin and practice marking and removing them. DRAPE ON A BASE Order the One Dart Fitted Dress block I'm using in this video. It's the perfect base for draping and fitted designs where you want to keep darts to a minimum OTHER VIDEOS YOU'LL LOVE 💕 - How to Pad Dress Form to Your Size & Shape - How to Recreate Create: Michelle Yeoh's Oscars Dress - Drape Your Own Block - Make McQueen Armband Pincushion WANT TO MAKE YOUR OWN PATTERN? Head to my website and checkout my CLIQD Pattern Kits. Each Kit comes with a Block (to use as the base for your pattern) and a step-by-step Guide to show you how to change the block into any designed based on it. CAN'T GET ENOUGH? 😍 Become a member to get access to exclusive Member's Only videos & the Director's Cut of my regular videos. Let your imagination run wild, Leigh xx