Dressmaker's pattern kit and method of making a garment

A dressmaker's pattern kit for use by a dressmaker in making a customized wedding gown or the like garment decorated with a multiplicity of separate irregularly contoured lace components cut out by the dressmaker from between the opposite lateral edges of a length of lace yardage and appliqued to the exterior of the gown, said kit comprising:

• a decorative lace pattern having imprinted thereon an image of an outstretched unfolded single layer of decorative lace yardage of a selected design and a plurality of closed loop guides superimposed on said lace pattern for subdividing said pattern into areas spaced crosswise and lengthwise thereof and for subdividing said lace yardage into a multiplicity of separate irregularly contoured decorative lace components, each of said closed loop guides being imprinted with an identifying symbol;
• a pinning guide pattern imprinted with the outline of a garment component and with images of a plurality of selected irregularly contoured areas only of an outstretched length of lace yardage and each of which last mentioned images corresponds to the image of a particular area of the lace image appearing on said lace pattern, said lace images on said pinning guide pattern being arranged in edge-to-edge relation to form at least one array of lace images having an irregularly contoured decorative appearance differing from that in any area of the lace yardage having the same size and shape as said array of lace;
• and each of the lace images imprinted on said lace pattern being identified by a distinctive symbol corresponding to the same identifying symbol on the similarly shaped lace image on said pinning guide pattern.