Off to a good start!

The first class of pattern drawing has come and gone, and it was nice. Nice to see most familiar faces from last year back, nice to see some new faces, nice to see the teacher back, and nice to start drawing again. After the first obligatory red tape that needed to be done, we got going already. Luckily I could find all my gear immediately in my neatly cleaned bag, ahem.

We’ll focus on blouses first, and after that we’ll move on to dresses. Simply put, a dress is just a blouse with a skirt attached to it. But I guess it’ll get slightly more complicated than that.

Here’s how we learn:

Together with the teacher, we draw a standard blouse, using retail sizes.
We take our own measurements.
We draw a standard blouse using our own measurements.
We make the standard blouse in muslin and fit it.
We alter our pattern to make sure all future blouses will hide our imperfections.
We start from our own standard pattern to draw all kinds of blouses, depending on what we want ourselves.

Looks pretty simple, when you put it like that. Of course, there’s a lot of math involved, and it all takes slightly longer, so we’ll be busy for quite a while. We’ll also learn about different collars and sleeves and all that. Once we can do that, we’ll repeat the whole thing for dresses.

And this year, we’ll have to learn some formula by heart. When we’re least expecting it, the teacher will point to one of us and we’ll have to blurt it out. I guess I’ll have some studying to do, to avoid the surprised answer that goes a little like “Blaaaaaah Huh?” Which, of course, is just a vocalization of the time I need to think about the formula, but it just doesn’t sound all that smart 🙂

And for those wondering, I survived the first night without my boy a lot better than I thought I would. It even felt (almost) nice to be out of the house without having to think about whether I had enough nappies in my bag. And by the time I got home, my two most favourite guys in the world were asleep on the sofa. Adorable 🙂

And now, let’s get cracking!

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