Do you know all styles, and designs originate from some basic patterns called SLOPERS, or BLOCKS?
There are stages to pattern making, or fashion designing, and there are industry standards to be followed, you can either make your pattern blocks using these standards, or buy already made pattern blocks which have been drafted and tested to industry standard, and start from there.
In some of the free online tutorials and groups, all you have been taught is how to draft Sloper, and some are not drafted to standards or correctly.
Slopers do not have seam allowances, ease or style allowances, they are just basic building block drafted to individual measurement. Examples of basic Slopers as illustrated below are front & back bodice, sleeve, skirts and pants.
With a well drafted Sloper, you graduate to dart manipulation, pivoting, styling, alteration to fit different shapes and sizes, etc, and with this knowledge you can come up with any style of your own.
I do not have anything against free hand cut, and kudos to those that learned that way, in fact with some simple styles I use free-hand straight on the fabric but there is “limitation” to free-hand. 
High-end designers, pattern makers, ready to wear designers all start from the building block called “SLOPER”.
A Sloper is like a building foundation, if you draft it correctly, your styles will come up perfect and fit well. If you do not want to draft yours, you can also buy basic Sloper patterns, and start your designs from there……..Hope this helps…….Have a great week…….

Fabulously Yours…. Omo-Esho

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