Finding your channel was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I learned so much from binge watching your videos and putting them into practice
You are very giving with your knowledge. I'm an old lady now, but as a young girl I dreamed of being a fashion designer (well, once I realized I was never going to be a dancer on the Red Skelton show.....lol.) College of any type was pretty much out of reach, so my sewing was limited to the Vogue patterns I could buy. Now I enjoy sewing clothes for my granddaughter and dolls. To have the knowledge of how to transfer an idea to a drape and then to a pattern is something I've hungered for for many years. Thank you for your kindness in sharing.
Nick, you have a true gift, not just as a fashion designer, but also with the art of teaching. Not many can explain complex topics in a manner that's easily understood. Your delightful and ingenius insertion of humor is a big part of that teaching gift and really helps others remember your lectures/demonstrations. As an Arkansan, I love when your southern accent/slang breaks through. You make learning an absolute blast! ❤
When I was little, I mastered Cottenelle and Tape masterpieces for my Barbie Doll. Then I pretty much --- grew into that figure, where ready made garments always had to be professionally altered. Now I am recovering from a major ankle surgery, have had the time, and been following most every seamstress here on UA-cam, learning how to sew. I know have the know how, but no experience sewing. I haven't even ran a seam on the sewing machine I just bought! Nick, I am so enjoying your lessons! The magic? You are THE ONLY ONE here on UA-cam to show us how to transfer the drape bodice onto paper! Really! You must know how exciting this is for me? You are also the only one who showed us how to draw a Crochie. Thank you for being a superbly detailed teacher! Challenge? Could you design and walk us through a Fashion Dress with side inserts (or multiple side inserts) that really emphasis the waist? Have a wonderful day and Thanksgiving!
I like that you show us the materials which you have used since the beginning of your fashion journey. You get excited about it and it shows how proud you are to have them :)
I just love you! You are teaching me so much and I wish I could give you a hug!!! My daughter and I donate our time and money to sew prom dresses to families in need in a very small town in Western Pennsylvania. We've been to the Mood Fabric shop in NYC twice and bumped into Project Runway's Helen both times!!! Wish we could see you there next time we go! Thank you Nic for all you do.
Hi! I love your enthusiasm! Thank you for making these videos! At 29 years, life for me is taking a new direction. I have always enjoyed sewing, it's my dream to learn to draft patterns and create beautiful dresses and help others do it too. We'll see where it goes! Your videos are fantastic! Thanks again!
I watched your other video on draping and then you used the cloth....I wasn't understanding why you had used it...then this video....OMG...lifechanging. I can use this to make my own patterns/draping over my dressmaker doll......hello honey. Signed, new to sewing. XO fm Canada.
I adore you! You are a fantastic teacher. Thanks to you I now know how to grade patterns and. I had a pattern class in pattern making but I could not understand.
I have been sewing for years, and have never seen the many steps to creating a drape and then a pattern. I am gaining a deeper understanding of the process, what can go wrong and what I can do to get a better fit. Thank you so much for being so very generous with your knowledge. Just love your videos!
You're such an inspiration Nick, I could never wrap my head around patterns but your draping methods are compelling me to buy a mannequin and get drafting. Thank you! Love from England xx
Hello, Nick. Thank you - I'm very grateful for your instructional videos. I'm a very basic kind of seamstress - minor clothing repair, hemming, etc., with very little experience in garment-making, which I have found to be a bit intimidating. Your instructions have broken the process down into what seem to be manageable steps, and I am inspired to attempt to create my own dresses. Thank you! Please wish me luck! Trish
I didn't get a chance to learn draping when I was doing pattern classes. This is helping me so much. I have so many designs I want to make but I just couldn't do it with the flat pattern technique.
I love watching you and listening to you Mr Verreos 😃. I'm am in my 50s and starting to design my own tops for the first time. I have watched you videos are they very helpful and inspiring , and you make me laugh. I'm going to check out your book too. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and in such a fun way.
I started making mask and voila, ended up with Nick videos making my first everything, hope to end up making TUTU's for the ballet (I know tall order) Thank you tons handsome Nick.
Fascinating. When watching Project Runway, I was always left wondering what steps were either not filmed or edited out between draping and sewing. Now I know how it's done. Mystery solved. Thanks.
Hi Nick.....absolutely love, love your videos. I have a question about the darts (and I hope it is not a silly one as I am new to this). Why do you add a 1/2 inch seam allowance to the darts? Why would you not stitch on your first marked line? I can understand why you need seam allowances everywhere else but this one baffles me. Ooops ok should have watched it right to the end (me bad). I see you are taking the bulk out of the middle and then you actually are stitching on the orginal line as you have that 1/2" seam allowance which allows that. So do you always trim out the middle of your darts and if so why?
Where do I start nick to learn from the beginning which videos do you recommend to watch in order from a to z.. Thank you for all you're doing for us because of you I can not wait to start making something magnificent! I always want to learn how to make dresses.
Hello Sir Nick, Just wanna ask if you have a video for a basic bodice/sloper pattern making in a pattern paper step by step? :) newbie here. Thankyou sir! 😊
Thanks for your videos; You are a true teacher and I love your way of explaining and your charisma. I need to create a basic pattern for a client and her measurements do not match those of my manikin. Do you have any tutorial where you show the technique to create the pattern without the help of the maniqui?
What is the purpose of keeping the scissors in contact with the table for? And by the way, I love your videos. You make it very easy and understandable. Out of curiousity, would you do a video of how to read and follow directions in a written pattern?! Many of the terms and how they are written are so confusing to me. And I can't wait to see you do the video of how to copy a manufactured garment. I have several tops and bottoms that are no longer made that I would like to recreate.
Hi nick! Ur videos are so great, but can you create a video on draping and patternmaking the back please! I’m honing my technical skills are your videos are amazing!!
Thank you for this video. I recently found you and you make my day. I’d love to see a couple more pattern making videos. I drape beautiful wedding gowns but when I go to make the pattern from my drape and sew the muslin it turns into a mess and I’m starting to loose confidence. Everything lined up beautifully in my drapes however :(.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful videotutorial! Do you usually have only one dart at the waist, or you also add a bust one? If so, how do you drape/pattern it? Thanks!
I'm a huge fan and new to the sewing techniques, question about darts ... are they needed in every garment and if I want to not add them I just tape or pin like you did ?
Hi Debee! The reason I do that is to take away some of the dart intake bulk--in fabric, that is. Sometimes, it creates too much bulk in the garment inside so....I take that away by just removing everything that is not needed, except for the seam allowance. Also, it makes it much easier to sew the dart...by following the seam allowance, of course. XO, Nick
Hi Nick great video! I watched the previous video of draping a basic bodice. Problem is I don't have a dress form, I have a torso mannequin. DO you think it would work? Of course it's not pin-able but maybe i can use tape? Thanks!
Hi Nick! First I am a hobbyist, not a professional or a student (but I bought your book anyway) so please pardon my questions if they seem rudimentary. I noticed in this basic bodice pattern there was no calculation for wear ease. Is that because it was done on a dress form (which for the purpose of the question let's assume the measurements are an exact match to the wearer)? If working with woven (not bias cut), should ease be added? How? Sounds like a video to me... ;-)
Hi Ashley Kelly! Love your question--Yes--I can imagine making an "Oopsie" with your curved ruler. Now--in terms of using the clear curve ruler for something like armholes, I would just lay the ruler next to your armhole marks (from the drape) and come as close as possible to your marks and "clean it up" with that curved ruler. Don't just re-draw it using the shape of that curved ruler; in other words, use your drape marks as a guideline and the curved ruler as a "helper". Hope this helps :) --Nick
Finding your channel was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I learned so much from binge watching your videos and putting them into practice
You are very giving with your knowledge. I'm an old lady now, but as a young girl I dreamed of being a fashion designer (well, once I realized I was never going to be a dancer on the Red Skelton show.....lol.) College of any type was pretty much out of reach, so my sewing was limited to the Vogue patterns I could buy. Now I enjoy sewing clothes for my granddaughter and dolls. To have the knowledge of how to transfer an idea to a drape and then to a pattern is something I've hungered for for many years. Thank you for your kindness in sharing.
Nick, you have a true gift, not just as a fashion designer, but also with the art of teaching. Not many can explain complex topics in a manner that's easily understood. Your delightful and ingenius insertion of humor is a big part of that teaching gift and really helps others remember your lectures/demonstrations. As an Arkansan, I love when your southern accent/slang breaks through. You make learning an absolute blast! ❤
This is probably the most comprehensive tutorial I’ve ever seen. You explain everything so well, in detail and with a bit of humor. Bravo!
You ❤️ make things so simple you cut through the fluff
When I was little, I mastered Cottenelle and Tape masterpieces for my Barbie Doll. Then I pretty much --- grew into that figure, where ready made garments always had to be professionally altered.
Now I am recovering from a major ankle surgery, have had the time, and been following most every seamstress here on UA-cam, learning how to sew. I know have the know how, but no experience sewing. I haven't even ran a seam on the sewing machine I just bought!
Nick, I am so enjoying your lessons! The magic? You are THE ONLY ONE here on UA-cam to show us how to transfer the drape bodice onto paper! Really! You must know how exciting this is for me?
You are also the only one who showed us how to draw a Crochie. Thank you for being a superbly detailed teacher!
Challenge? Could you design and walk us through a Fashion Dress with side inserts (or multiple side inserts) that really emphasis the waist? Have a wonderful day and Thanksgiving!
Love Love your demonstration in how to make a pattern. You are very clear appreciate the step by step
your the best teacher i have ever seen.you make everything so easy and amazing!thank you so much!
Yes he is...
I like that you show us the materials which you have used since the beginning of your fashion journey. You get excited about it and it shows how proud you are to have them :)
I just love you! You are teaching me so much and I wish I could give you a hug!!! My daughter and I donate our time and money to sew prom dresses to families in need in a very small town in Western Pennsylvania. We've been to the Mood Fabric shop in NYC twice and bumped into Project Runway's Helen both times!!! Wish we could see you there next time we go! Thank you Nic for all you do.
Hi! I love your enthusiasm! Thank you for making these videos! At 29 years, life for me is taking a new direction. I have always enjoyed sewing, it's my dream to learn to draft patterns and create beautiful dresses and help others do it too. We'll see where it goes! Your videos are fantastic! Thanks again!
I watched your other video on draping and then you used the cloth....I wasn't understanding why you had used it...then this video....OMG...lifechanging. I can use this to make my own patterns/draping over my dressmaker doll......hello honey. Signed, new to sewing. XO fm Canada.
I adore you! You are a fantastic teacher. Thanks to you I now know how to grade patterns and. I had a pattern class in pattern making but I could not understand.
I have been sewing for years, and have never seen the many steps to creating a drape and then a pattern. I am gaining a deeper understanding of the process, what can go wrong and what I can do to get a better fit. Thank you so much for being so very generous with your knowledge. Just love your videos!
I can't t skip your video everyday! Fantastic! Ty ty ty!
Wow Nick, you explain things so well. I am learning so much from your videos. Thank you ten fold
I love watching Nick- great teacher and so generous sharing his knowledge
You're such an inspiration Nick, I could never wrap my head around patterns but your draping methods are compelling me to buy a mannequin and get drafting. Thank you! Love from England xx
You are the best. I love your sweet way of teaching. I wish you the best so keep doing more videos. Every i learn more thanks to you🏆🙏🙏🏅
Thank you again Nick. You bring joy to my day.
Thank you !! I've been sewing free handed for a while now but I want to focus on doing it properly and your videos are very helpful 😊.
Where have you been my whole life?? I love you! Thank you for this!!!
You make everything so simple and easy to understand. 👍
Hello, Nick. Thank you - I'm very grateful for your instructional videos. I'm a very basic kind of seamstress - minor clothing repair, hemming, etc., with very little experience in garment-making, which I have found to be a bit intimidating. Your instructions have broken the process down into what seem to be manageable steps, and I am inspired to attempt to create my own dresses. Thank you! Please wish me luck! Trish
You inspired me to start making my own fashion collection. And I start learning more tricks. Thank you
I fall in love with you soo smart way to explane even the most complicated things in such shinny and smily mode..
I didn't get a chance to learn draping when I was doing pattern classes. This is helping me so much. I have so many designs I want to make but I just couldn't do it with the flat pattern technique.
you are so happy!!! I think I found my favorite teacher
I love watching you and listening to you Mr Verreos 😃. I'm am in my 50s and starting to design my own tops for the first time. I have watched you videos are they very helpful and inspiring , and you make me laugh. I'm going to check out your book too. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and in such a fun way.
Hi Nick! Can you make more videos again? I wish all my fashion teachers were as fun as you! ☺️✨
I started making mask and voila, ended up with Nick videos making my first everything, hope to end up making TUTU's for the ballet (I know tall order) Thank you tons handsome Nick.
Love you professor. You are a huge help for the self lerner like me.
he explains everything so easily and makes everything easy even for me
Please add more videos because that would be great! And in the future, I will thank you personally Nick because you're a great teacher 😍 Much love!
An Excellent teacher. You provide all the details in an easy to understand way. Thanks Nick!
Thank you, Nick! You are my very first draping/drafting teacher! I'm enjoying your videos.
I'm just now finding your videos and I enjoy them! Could you do one on drafting a pattern on paper with just measurements? Thanks!
Fascinating. When watching Project Runway, I was always left wondering what steps were either not filmed or edited out between draping and sewing. Now I know how it's done. Mystery solved. Thanks.
This video is amazing! So much information, brief precise and to the point. Thank you so much Nick, I will watch them all and buy your book!
You are everything!!! I was so confused about pattern making, but now I get it. 😊 Thank you.
Hi Nick.....absolutely love, love your videos. I have a question about the darts (and I hope it is not a silly one as I am new to this). Why do you add a 1/2 inch seam allowance to the darts? Why would you not stitch on your first marked line? I can understand why you need seam allowances everywhere else but this one baffles me. Ooops ok should have watched it right to the end (me bad). I see you are taking the bulk out of the middle and then you actually are stitching on the orginal line as you have that 1/2" seam allowance which allows that. So do you always trim out the middle of your darts and if so why?
Where do I start nick to learn from the beginning which videos do you recommend to watch in order from a to z.. Thank you for all you're doing for us because of you I can not wait to start making something magnificent! I always want to learn how to make dresses.
Love all your videos! Wish I was one of your students
Love your videos! I been looking for easy fun tutorials and you are the best so far. Thank you!
You're so amazing and a joy to watch. Thanks for these informative courses, Nick.
Hello Sir Nick, Just wanna ask if you have a video for a basic bodice/sloper pattern making in a pattern paper step by step? :) newbie here. Thankyou sir! 😊
I love this series....thanks so much!!!! You're empowering me!!!! I just purchased my first real dress form!!!
thank you. I've been "cloning" my clothes to make new patterns. I'm so glad to learn the pro way!
Cyndel2006 I've been doing the same thank god for his dress form video
so good. damn ive seriously watched a million tutorials and finding any good draping ones is impossible. thnk u. ur funny as hell.
Thanks for your videos; You are a true teacher and I love your way of explaining and your charisma. I need to create a basic pattern for a client and her measurements do not match those of my manikin. Do you have any tutorial where you show the technique to create the pattern without the help of the maniqui?
I never thought you could cut the dart open like that Love your videos thanks Nick. :)
ugh now it all makes sense. thank you! pattern from draping is much easier than measurements way
Kim Nguyen agree
Thank you! This is really helpful. I'm gonna make my own dress, base on your tutorial. I hope it success. Thanks again!! 👍
Thank you soooo much, you make it so easy to understand. I totally love your channel x
Love your teachings!!!!!! So informative!
What is the purpose of keeping the scissors in contact with the table for? And by the way, I love your videos. You make it very easy and understandable. Out of curiousity, would you do a video of how to read and follow directions in a written pattern?! Many of the terms and how they are written are so confusing to me. And I can't wait to see you do the video of how to copy a manufactured garment. I have several tops and bottoms that are no longer made that I would like to recreate.
love your teachings! so informative and understandable! god bless your work x
Dear Lagavale Tapuala-Unasa:
Thank you for your LOVELY comment here! (I'm blushing!)
XO--Nick
Man you are awesome! Love from Pakistan, Peshawar ❤️
Oh, Nick!! You're the best! I loooooooooove your vids. I am ordering your book RIGHT NOW! Plus you are suuuuper funny! Love all the way from India!
Hi nick! Ur videos are so great, but can you create a video on draping and patternmaking the back please! I’m honing my technical skills are your videos are amazing!!
I LOVE, love your videos Nick, I am learning so much! Thank you!!
thank you so much Sir... you're so great and very nice teaching.. I'm so grateful to find your channel... more power and God bless you always 😘😍👍👏
very informative and easy to learn!!! Thank you for your sharing!
You are the best teacher
Thank you so very much for all your wonderful lessons. I have learnt so much from you. Wonderful presentation :-)
Thank u Nick!! You are awesome, can’t wait to learn something new from every video👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
draping a basic blouse and then make a pattern from the drape. one idea!! thank you. great!!
Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial! This is so clear and easy to understand and also fun to watch! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for this video. I recently found you and you make my day. I’d love to see a couple more pattern making videos. I drape beautiful wedding gowns but when I go to make the pattern from my drape and sew the muslin it turns into a mess and I’m starting to loose confidence. Everything lined up beautifully in my drapes however :(.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful videotutorial! Do you usually have only one dart at the waist, or you also add a bust one? If so, how do you drape/pattern it? Thanks!
WOW ! It helps me a lot and It feels like Im attending a fashions school! Thanksss
Excellent brevity! Love your color combos! :)
I am learning so much from this video :)
I enjoy your videos Nick, thank you, Would you consider doing a video on how to make a bodice sloper or bodice block please?
I'm a huge fan and new to the sewing techniques, question about darts ... are they needed in every garment and if I want to not add them I just tape or pin like you did ?
Wow🤩
Sir please make full video of draping to dress
Like showing each step darping then Patten trueing then stitching and final garment
Very helpful, thank you. I noticed that you cut out the dart instead of just folding the fabric. Is that to minimize excess fabric?
you are amazing man,god bless you....
God Bless You!!! My lovely teacher !!!
Well done videos I enjoy all of them!😻
Omg I just love you. You are soo funny and so informative.
I looooove your teaching..thank you so much
Oh thanks, I never saw anyone add seam allowance to the dart legs. do you mind explaining why you like it better than sewing the folded dart?
Hi Debee! The reason I do that is to take away some of the dart intake bulk--in fabric, that is. Sometimes, it creates too much bulk in the garment inside so....I take that away by just removing everything that is not needed, except for the seam allowance. Also, it makes it much easier to sew the dart...by following the seam allowance, of course. XO, Nick
your are a very good tutor.... kudos
Omg! Thank you so much! I am learning so much!
Hi Nick great video! I watched the previous video of draping a basic bodice. Problem is I don't have a dress form, I have a torso mannequin. DO you think it would work? Of course it's not pin-able but maybe i can use tape? Thanks!
You are very talented..Ty for the videos!
Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing.
I L❤ve your Nick Tricks! 👌😊
Thank you for this channel. I am new to the world of fashion and you make everything seem so effortless ❤ #southafricalovesyou
oh yes and maybe even see you actually sew the pattern out or who ever you have do your sewing. That would be awesome!! Love your show anyway.
Loved it. I think I can manage the front side . But how do I do
the back side !!!!
This is sooo helpful! Love your channel!
Thank you Shandra!
MUAH XO--Nick
Thank God for making you
so well explained .... thank you so much!!
Love your channel
Hi Nick! First I am a hobbyist, not a professional or a student (but I bought your book anyway) so please pardon my questions if they seem rudimentary. I noticed in this basic bodice pattern there was no calculation for wear ease. Is that because it was done on a dress form (which for the purpose of the question let's assume the measurements are an exact match to the wearer)? If working with woven (not bias cut), should ease be added? How? Sounds like a video to me... ;-)
Thanks so much for your videos! How do you know what part of the curve to use to "true" it? Could go horribly wrong I'd imagine lol.
Hi Ashley Kelly! Love your question--Yes--I can imagine making an "Oopsie" with your curved ruler. Now--in terms of using the clear curve ruler for something like armholes, I would just lay the ruler next to your armhole marks (from the drape) and come as close as possible to your marks and "clean it up" with that curved ruler. Don't just re-draw it using the shape of that curved ruler; in other words, use your drape marks as a guideline and the curved ruler as a "helper". Hope this helps :) --Nick
I enjoyed his lesson
You are a good teacher.
i am honored to leave the first comment on nicks video