Commercial skirt patterns are drafted for a standard body. Your waist-to-hip ratio, your hip curve, your torso length. When those measurements do not match the pattern envelope, every adjustment you make is working backwards from someone else’s starting point.

This course shows you how to start from the right place.

You begin by drafting a skirt block from your own measurements. Once that block is fitted and corrected, it becomes the foundation for any skirt you want to make. A straight skirt. A relaxed everyday skirt. A gathered skirt. A designer project. All of them develop from the same fitted starting point.

The course closes with a full section on waistbands: straight waistbands with and without underwrap, and a curved waistband for dropped-waist designs. By the end, you have a block that is fitted to your body and a waistband toolkit that works across every skirt you make from it.