My 4th year at university was filled to the brim of highs and lows. I'll admit that while I was thrilled with my 2:1 and the fantastic sense of achievement I felt, after months and months of stressing over deadlines and practically living in the sewing workroom I left university not wanting to even look at a sewing machine.
I'm sure many fashion students will relate to this in some way. I've actually not touched my sewing machine in a year and a half now and feel it's finally the time to buckle down and get back into the swing of things.
At university I was trained to use a basic pattern block and develop my own patterns but due to the length of time since I last done this I'm really really rusty so I've started to invest in these New Look/Vogue patterns to sort of re-train myself. I believe pattern cutting is like riding a bike, once you've learnt to do it you can't really forget it, you just have to get used to doing it again!
What I'm hoping to do is a few posts on here of the garments as I go along, currently I'm waiting on 10 metres of pattern cutting paper for me to trace these over and since it's my first time using these I can do a little review of how I get on.
I'm actually really excited to start getting back into the swing of things and then move on from there, hopefully once I do a few of these patterns I will be able to start altering them for my own designs like I used to do at university.
I've got a few new pattern cutting books coming from amazon as well to help me re-learn so I will do a wish list of those on here at a later date to help any of you aspiring pattern cutters with what to buy to help you get started and we'll go from there.
I feels good to be getting back on the bike!
