I've been sewing today too! I'm using a Burda pattern, which I am not entirely convinced about. As with knitting, I am much more successful when I just make things up: when I'm solely in charge of the result, I spend much more time making sure I'm doing exactly what I want as I go along, but when I'm following a pattern, I sort of adopt this resigned, "Well, I wouldn't do it that way, and I'm not sure about the shape of that bit, but you know best!" and then get surprised when it isn't as exactly-as-I-wanted-it as my madey-uppys.
Back when I did lots and lots of sewing, I usually made things up based roughly on patterns from the Burda Mode magazines, which was an easy and cheap way of getting lots of basic shapes to base things on. If you wanted me to look through and see whether there's anything more suitable for your purposes than the pattern you got, I could have a look through for you.
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Date: 2009-05-10 06:29 pm (UTC)Back when I did lots and lots of sewing, I usually made things up based roughly on patterns from the Burda Mode magazines, which was an easy and cheap way of getting lots of basic shapes to base things on. If you wanted me to look through and see whether there's anything more suitable for your purposes than the pattern you got, I could have a look through for you.