STOP USING THE WRONG PATTERN METHOD (Here's How to Choose)

Are you choosing the wrong pattern method and wondering why your drafts keep failing? Most beginners start manipulating darts when they actually need slash and spread or try adding shaping when the design requires contouring. So in this video, I’ll be breaking down the 3 fundamental pattern manipulation methods and exactly when to use each one: ✅ Dart Manipulation ✅ Slash & Spread ✅ Contouring You'll learn: • How to identify which method the design requires • Where to slash for different fullness effects (vertical vs radial vs horizontal) • What contour guideline crossings mean • 3 common mistakes that make patterns fail • How to combine multiple methods in one garment This is how professionals choose the right technique before drafting begins. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎓 FULL PATTERN DRAFTING COURSE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Master the foundation blocks that make these techniques possible and makes clothes that fit perfectly from scratch https://mayowaoye.com/introduction-to-pattern-drafting/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 — Why Choosing the Wrong Method Fails 0:41 — The 3 Methods in 30 Seconds 1:31 — The Decision Framework 2:02 — METHOD 1: Dart Manipulation 3:17 — METHOD 2: Slash & Spread (Where to Slash Matters) 4:34 — METHOD 3: Contouring (Guideline Crossings Explained) 6:19 — Applying to Real Designs 7:29 — 3 Common Mistakes to Avoid ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👋 ABOUT ME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My name is Mayowa Oye, a fashion designer and pattern maker. I teach pattern making, garment construction, and professional techniques on this channel. If you want to learn how to choose the right drafting method, avoid common mistakes, and draft with professional precision you're in the right place. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Instagram: instagram.com/mayowa_oye/ Website: www.mayowaoye.com #PatternMaking #DartManipulation #SlashAndSpread #Contouring #PatternDrafting #fashiondesign