{creative space}

my creative space for this week is a spot of pattern drafting.

Now before you all go weak in the knees with fear,
let me try and sell this to you...

The sense of pride and accomplishment that comes from having drafted your own pattern,
why, I have found it has given me a buzz all week.

For me the drive was to make the perfect white long sleeved t shirt.
Do you find you can never really get one in a store?
That the search makes you spend way longer at the shoppo than you would ever have liked?

I am proud to say this t shirt fits me to a T.
Made just for me,
white cotton spandex, curving and nipping in, in all the right places.

You can see she is still a work in progress,
and I will probably make up another, tweaking the pattern a little.
But my am I happy, happy with what I have produced!

I admit, that I spent most of child free Tuesday taking my own measurements (mmm, never fun), bruising my poor knees on the floor as I plotted, measured, perpendicular-ed, made right angles and the like.

But it was fun, honest, and so fab to learn a new skill!

Before you all think I am some kind of drafting goddess, I must remind you that I am learning from this book, remember back here.
If you want to have a go yourself (come on now, you know you want to!)
  then I highly recommend this book.
Step by -step instructions on how to draft a pattern for many different clothing items - dresses, trousers (this will be my next one), skirts and shirts.

Creative Space hosted weekly over at Kootoyoo, see you all there!

Trace xx