
Step 1
Start by drafting a bodice block to hipline with 10cm ease at bust circ, 7cm ease at waist and 5cm ease at hips.
You can learn our method for drafting perfectly made to measure basic blocks, for fitting and manipulating them in our basic blocks course/module 1.
On front:
- measure distance from center front to bust point, then draw a line from center front outwards 8cm above hipline, matching measurement to previous one (see the red lines here). This will be the outermost point of jacket hemline
- connect this point to high shoulder point
- then draw the hemline with a slanted line from previous point to 3 to 4cm before center front and 2cm below hipline, then from this bottom point to side seam 3cm above hip
On back:
- draw hemline as a horizontal line matching level to front side seam.

