Adventures in Patternmaking

I am taking patternmaking this semester as my last sewing class in my college career. I was terrified of this class...seriously. I had just taken Advanced Clothing Construction during Spring term....aka 14 weeks worth of classes in half the time, but not half the work. It was a little bit (read: completely) miserable. Thus I was wary of taking another advanced studies sewing class so soon - especially one I didn't know much about. But I have LOVED it so far. It is still a lot of work as all sewing classes at BYU are, but I don't live in the sewing lab now and I am loving that.

We just had our midterm last week and boy, am I glad it is over! The midterm consisted of this: Professor gives you a picture of a dress or skirt/bodice and you make all the pattern pieces for said picture. You may or may not have seen/learned specifically the techniques used in the picture but it's all in the book. You have six hours over two days. Good luck!

Yeah, you tell me that you wouldn't be scared if the following was your midterm review:

But I survived and it went pretty well. I messed one section up big time - which made me really sad because I did it RIGHT and then I thought too much, apparently, and I re-did it WRONG and turned it in. Sigh.... We got our tests back today and I showed the professor after class my CORRECT pattern that I had not turned in and she gave me this anguished look...which made me feel better even though I couldn't raise my grade.

We have just passed the midway week and I feel like the semester is practically over! That is a great feeling. Cuz' you know what comes at the end of Fall semester? Good Things.