2-Piece Hood Pattern Making: How to determine neck drop

Have you noticed all hood pattern's neck drops are different even if you see the final garments look the same? Neck drop doesn't really impact overall design wise, but it makes a difference around your neckline. The hood can be either more standing and embrace your back neck, or sitting on your shoulder more. 

In this video, I show you how to draft 2-piece hood patterns. You can draw your design lines whatever and however you want, but you will learn what are the basic factors you should keep for hood patterns. 

The hood patterns I’m drafting in this video are two-piece hood, left and right side. And they meet at the center front. So when I measured neck length from the body patterns, I didn’t measure extension.

If your front has an extension for button closure, you can measure the extension and add onto the hood neck.

Even though you have one front piece (no extension or no closure), you might want to overlap at the center front like the photo below. Then you can extend the center front neck line. The half amount of whatever you wanna overlap. 

Click here to watch the video for details.

Hope you enjoy!