Amanda homework November 25,

Today I had the pleasure of teaching Amanda!  It's always a treat to spend time with this wonderful young woman, she is soooo humble, intelligent and just an all around good person.  She works mainly from home for designers drafting their patterns, I asked how many clients she has and the answer was too many to remember!  How great is that!  Congrats Amanda!  Not many people can say that...

Today's lesson was to go over the drafts she did for homework, the Dolman sleeve in a couple of different applications plus the cowl neck draft.  I gave Amanda the choice of trying them on her own then have the feedback as a lesson or do them as separate lessons.  She chose to do them on her own.  The drafts are always executed very well, very neat, clear work so I was not surprised when there was not much to correct!  We did spend the time fine tuning and clarifying the drafts, all 4 of them!  Plus going over the pants once again! 

All in all we covered a lot of ground today, by the end we were both pretty saturated with information so we called it a day. 
Homework

• draft the shirt on page 84 tracing the pattern pieces to show the collar, sleeve and pocket
  
• create a mock up for the cowl neck top only to the hips,
  
• make a basic block only for the raglan for wovens, we will be completing the pattern and tracing the pattern pieces during class  
  
• Trace the pattern pieces for the shirt that was drafted for homework with all markings
  

Great work Amanda!