Pleased to announce a little success on the personal block front with my pattern cutting class at the Mill Arts Centre in Banbury. We are all different shapes and sizes, and for students that aren't aiming for a career as a designer/pattern cutter, a good objective is to make a personal block (sized to your own measurements), on which you can base any design, knowing that it will fit you when made up as a garment.
One of my students told me that she hardly ever wears trousers and only possessed one pair, as she could never get any to fit...
So when she came to the class yesterday and I noticed that she was wearing a beautifully fitting pair of trousers in lovely fabric, and I remarked on them, thinking that she'd been out and bought some expensive designer trousers.
Well, you know what's coming.....she had actually made them from her own perfectly fitting pattern, and looked a million dollars! We were all very impressed, and I was so pleased for her, a) that she could wear a pair of great trousers, that made her feel good, and b) pleased for the class (who had some proof of the method we used) AND myself, that the 'constructing from scratch method' had worked so well.
More soon!
Bobbie
