Hi everyone,
I’m 63 years old and a music teacher. I have made my own clothes since I was at high school. I normally used Burda patterns then, and I knew exactly where to change the pattern so that it would fit me. However, in the past decade or so, I cannot get them to fit me anymore.
In the past I’ve done some pattern drawing by hand, using the book of Winnifred Aldrich. This took a lot of time, and you still need to go through the phase of fitting what you have drawn and redraw the first draft, so that you will end up with a good basic pattern. Not to mention that I wanted to develop other designs based on the basic pattern. So after a while I abandoned the idea of drawing my own patterns altogether, because I simply lacked the time to do it. After all, I also want to have time for sewing.
With Seamly, however, the idea of drawing my own patterns has become appealing again. I like that I can have a digital basic pattern, which can be changed easily after the first fitting. And that based on that I can develop other designs.
What I also like about Seamly is that it is also available for Mac-computers. I just read that Valentina is no longer available for Mac. I sincerely hope that you will not make this same decision.
I have not yet started to draw a pattern. I usually learn something new by looking at some tutorials on YouTube first, which is what I’m doing now. In the future I hope to contribute my own tutorials for pattern drawing with Seamly.
