Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine job requirements
- Prepare to make millinery patterns
- Identify pattern pieces and the measurements required for pattern
- Select model to suit design specifications
- Take measurements, make calculated measurements, document and check for accuracy
- Select manual or electronic construction method to suit pattern
- Select and prepare patternmaking tools and equipment
- Construct millinery pattern
- Construct patterns using millinery flat pattern construction principles
- Apply measurements and calculations to construct pattern
- Check pattern pieces for accuracy, including seam allowances, ease allowance, proportion and seam match
- Make a test toile to check that design requirements are met
- Modify or alter patterns according to results from the test toile
- Finalise millinery patterns