Drafting a Knit Halter Tank with a Racerback

This lesson will teach you how to draft halter knit tank with a racerback. Referring to the racerback tank illustration, you will learn how to determine certain key measurements like the shoulder width, the front neck drop, the style line and the width of the racerback.

The sleeveless knit T-shirt sloper needed for this lesson can be found and drafted in our lesson: Drafting a Women’s Fitted Stable Knit T-Shirt from Measurements. And the fabric planned for this draft is a cotton/Lycra single knit jersey.

For more lessons on working with cut & sew knits visit our Knit Discipline landing page.

Table of Contents
Transcript

Module	Description	Step
1	Drafting the Front Tank	1-2
2	Drafting the Back Tank with Racerback	1-3
3	More About Knits	1-2

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MODULE 1 • Drafting the Front Tank

Step	Description
1	To begin this lesson, we will refer to our halter tank sketch to determine certain key measurements. For our size 6 our measurements the: Shoulder width: 1 ½” (3.8cm) Front neck drop: 4 ½” (11.4cm) Back neck depth to racerback style line: 3” (7.6cm) Racerback width from CB: 3” (7.6cm)

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