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Beyond the Basic Block: Deep Dive into Sleeve Design

This isn’t another cookie-cutter tutorial that relies on generic formulas or superficial fixes.  You’ll delve deep into the foundational principles of designing knitted sleeves and sleeve drafting, ensuring you gain the profound knowledge and practical skills to solve fit challenges independently. No more being trapped designing only accessories or feeling limited by existing patterns. With the Tailored Sleeves Masterclass, you’ll develop reliable frameworks and processes that put you and your unique shape front and centre of the design process.

At this point we both know that you crave mastery, not just quick fixes. This course empowers you to take pride in your intelligence and apply customisations that make your garments serve you, not the other way around. Because shouldn’t your wardrobe be a reflection of your authentic self, uplifting you in every way?

What You’ll Discover in the Tailored Sleeves Masterclass:

This insightful course connects the dots between sleeve drafting design elements and practical considerations. Explore how anatomy, ease of movement, garment styling, and aesthetics all play a crucial role. You’ll see abundant examples and illustrations, revealing how vastly different sleeve styles share the same fundamental geometric roots – often boiling down to basic shapes like circles, triangles, and squares. This module helps you develop your design eye, allowing your imagination to soar while anchoring your artistry in solid principles.

This comprehensive masterclass is thoughtfully divided into two core modules, each designed to give you ample time for calculations and worked examples, ensuring truly robust understanding.

The Geometry of Sleeves: Set-in Sleeves

In this in-depth class, you’ll uncover the essential principles for drafting flawless set-in sleeves. Through contextual examples, precise reference to body measurements, and practical demonstrations, you’ll be expertly guided through the entire drafting process. Learn to create sleeves that perfectly fit both the armhole and the wearer, mastering the art of checking your sleeve head with a calculator and receiving invaluable pointers on finishing techniques. Advance reading materials will even include notes on design and styling, sparking your creativity for future garment patterns.

The Geometry of Sleeves: Raglan Sleeves

Similarly, this class will introduce you to the core principles for drafting perfectly fitted raglan sleeves. With practical examples, body measurement references, and clear demonstrations, you’ll navigate the process of drafting a raglan sleeve that harmonises with your dissected bodice and the wearer. Discover how to confidently check your sleeve head fit using a calculator and gain essential finishing insights. Advance reading will cover design and styling notes, including a partial recap of previous set-in sleeves lectures with additional raglan-specific insights.

What You’ll Need For Designing Knitted Sleeves:

• A scientific calculator with parentheses/brackets, pi, and trigonometry functions.
• Pen and paper for note-taking.
• Pencil and ruler for drafting (a mechanical pencil with 2H to HB leads is ideal).
• Squared or grid paper (A4 or letter size). For inches, you’ll need quarter-inch (quad or quadrille) paper (4 boxes per inch). For centimetres, 5mm x 5mm squared paper (2 boxes per centimetre). Printable links will be provided if you can’t find a pad!
• (Optional) Coloured fineliners or felt-tip pens if you’re a colour-coding fiend like me 😉

This masterclass on designing knitted sleeves is about reclaiming your creative freedom and experiencing the profound joy of designing and wearing clothes that fit and flatter you perfectly. You don’t need years of experience or a string of accreditations.  What you need is the human connection and expert guidance that only a seasoned professional can provide.

Lifetime access to the Tailored Sleeve Masterclass also includes:

• Monthly Open Studio Zoom calls with me for Q&As (you can submit these in advance or turn up live)
• Live demos of techniques covered in the calls
• Community spaces for you to meet other people on the course
• Direct 1:1 access to me for any questions you have, or if you’d prefer to be away from the Open Studio calls

Natalie in Stitches: Conditional Satisfaction Guarantee

I am confident that when you apply the curriculum and actively participate in the community, you will achieve your knitwear design goals. Because this course provides a high level of personalized support, formative feedback, and access to a professional community, I require a good-faith effort to ensure the programme is right for you.

My Policy:

A full refund of your course tuition is available within 30 calendar days of your initial enrolment date, provided you meet the following conditions:

Refund Eligibility Conditions:

1. Time Limit: Your refund request must be submitted via email to me no later than 11:59 PM UK time on the 30th day after your purchase date.
2. Good-Faith Effort: You must demonstrate that you have actively engaged with the course content up to the point of your request.
   • Specifically, to be eligible for a refund, you must have:
     • Completed 100% of the lessons in Module 1.
     • Submitted the required formative assignment for Module 1 for feedback, or provided documentation that you have fully completed the assignment instructions.
     • Participated in at least one (1) peer feedback, one-to-one feedback, or community discussion within the course platform.
3. Content Access: You must have viewed less than 25% of the total course video content available at the time of the request (to account for the dripped schedule).

Non-Eligibility (No Refund Issued If):

• You request a refund after the 30-day limit has passed.
• You have not demonstrated a good-faith effort by completing the required assignments outlined above.
• You have not logged into the course platform.
• You purchased the course simply to “check it out” without the intention of doing the work.

My Commitment to You:

This policy ensures that my instructional and community resources are dedicated to students who are serious about their design journey. If you put in the effort, and genuinely feel the course is not for you, I will gladly refund your investment.

Note on Access: Enrolment provides lifetime access to the course content and future updates. However, the refund window is strictly limited to the first 30 days and subject to the conditional requirements above.

And finally…a little bit about the person telling you all about designing knitted sleeves 🙂

I’m Natalie, a 4th-generation dressmaker and university-trained knitwear designer.  My family taught me that clothes should never be the boss of you. Now, I’m here to share that ethos and provide you with the robust, proven principles you need to create knitting patterns that truly work for you.

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