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Working for the weekend
Jul. 31st, 2003 03:50 pmIts Thursday and I am wishing that its was Friday night so I could go home already. I so need a nice quiet weekend to recover from the last two busy ones.
Next week I am teaching a body block and pattern drafting class. I came up with the idea after hearing 3 people in less than 24 hours talk about how scared they were to draft their own patterns and how hard it was and so forth. I am pretty fearless about pattern drafting and have learned a few tricks. I emailed Cainder, the Sewing guild leader, about my idea and she thought it was a great one. So now I have 3 students and a waiting list of 7 people. Wow, I didn't think that there would be that much interest for less than a weeks notice, but there is.
I am going to do some research and put the handout together this weekend. So far 2 of the 3 people in the class have gotten back to me with their time period of interest, 10th century Frankish and 14th century English.
A big difference in styles to say the least, but the basic concepts should be the same: analyzing the resources that we have available to give us clues as to construction, drafting a block that fits, adding the ease and the pattern lines, etc.
I am really looking forward to teaching this class, its really going to stretch me in ways that I have been meaning to get into, but haven't had the motovation to do so yet. Nothing like a deadline to motovate one.
Next week I am teaching a body block and pattern drafting class. I came up with the idea after hearing 3 people in less than 24 hours talk about how scared they were to draft their own patterns and how hard it was and so forth. I am pretty fearless about pattern drafting and have learned a few tricks. I emailed Cainder, the Sewing guild leader, about my idea and she thought it was a great one. So now I have 3 students and a waiting list of 7 people. Wow, I didn't think that there would be that much interest for less than a weeks notice, but there is.
I am going to do some research and put the handout together this weekend. So far 2 of the 3 people in the class have gotten back to me with their time period of interest, 10th century Frankish and 14th century English.
A big difference in styles to say the least, but the basic concepts should be the same: analyzing the resources that we have available to give us clues as to construction, drafting a block that fits, adding the ease and the pattern lines, etc.
I am really looking forward to teaching this class, its really going to stretch me in ways that I have been meaning to get into, but haven't had the motovation to do so yet. Nothing like a deadline to motovate one.
