Pattern Workshop

I mentioned a couple of posts ago about Lauren Dahl's amazing course called Pattern Workshop. It is truly a remarkable experience!  You can read more about it on Lauren's Blog.

Last week in the course of just a few hours, I went from nothing but an idea in my head to this...

And from that to this....

This course has taught me so much about drafting a pattern on my computer from nothing but measurements.  This is something that I have wanted to learn how to do for a very long time, but information was scarce.  Like a well kept industry secret or something.  Now, I literally feel like I could just throw out all of the paper patterns from McCalls, and Butterick, and Simplicity that are just taking up space in my studio because I don't need them... I can do it myself and have exactly what I want!  No more tracing and cutting and spreading and dealing with huge pieces of paper and trying to keep my two cats from parking themselves in the middle of all of it. LOL.  

I highly recommend the course for anyone who is interested in pattern design!