anything I can do to help as a student, ….!

The patternmaking book is not like anyone else’s, it’s not how to make X styles. It’s all the stuff that pattern books never mention along with sewing it up etc. You know, production stuff. Like how to correct the overlap on a V so the two points line up.

I am trying to contain my joy here …. My two cents: I am glad you are thinking about writing a book on patternmaking

Ditto on final fashion’s comments exactly. My school, so far (Fashion Design I), instructs us to do the same on our patterns. I will keep my eyes peeled for ‘upgraded’ info as we progress. (AAU tends to give more info as we graduate up the levels of FD).

Your instructions make sense to me …. I am understanding in industry, clarification in communication is key. Symbols and coding that everyone can understand in more important.

Regarding home sewing pattern instructions, I remember reading that market assumes that the sewer already ‘knows’ how to sew and that the home sewer is taking command of their system of organization with their sewing plan so they leave all organization details to the discretion of the home sewer. They are only giving a guide to pattern layout and cutting and sewing. The rest is not their concern. They are only in the business of selling patterns.

I have also shopped at V Brothers, they are pretty good at customer service.
You can also find green backed pattern paper for $4.50/yard. Sold by yard or 120 yard rolls at:

http://sewtrue.com/Store/Tagboard-Pattern-Paper-P231.html

Cutter mast
If so the cutter mast is operated base on the fabric that should be cut but not by the number of pattern piece. Therefore, we should write self on one card ,interfacing on one card and contrast fabric on one card for one style pattern. Is that what you mean?
Do you write fabric information to the cutter mast such as fabric width,color,fiber content and illustration (flat)?

Thank you,

If a cuff were a total 4 per to cut but two of them were contrast, you would write:
cut 2 per (black ink for shell)
cut 2 per (green or purple ink for contrast)
the specifications of the pieces to cut and of which fabric would be repeated on the pattern card and cutter’s must. The latter are a parts list of pieces to cut to complete the style.

Re: more details on patterns (ie company name etc). I suspect this would be more typical of a package service that provides pattern services along with production. It is not wrong to do it like this (and it’s not wrong not to either). Every service provider has internal means to track each client’s work. I do it by the job. I’m not a large firm so it is not difficult. I track each customer’s job with the pattern card; that has the company’s name on it etc.

I’ve see pattern wrote done more details like company name,type of garment(ex,men’s shirt button up)style number,size and number of cut.However from the photo you showed,I only see the style number,part of garment,size, nap direction and side of notice.IS that what you usually use for the production?

Also, the same company taught me that we would always use an arrow, but only pointing to the bottom of the piece. Would this not be important for one-way and directional prints?

Finally, another thing the same company taught me is that each grain line should go from top to bottom of the entire pattern piece and that they should align for pieces that are attached during sewing.

Just curious about the location of annotation, if you happen to see this.. thanks, Trish