I've been working on this project since January now, and one of the best decisions I've made yet was to go to evening class. Not just any old class: the CALAT course in Pattern Cutting and Design.
Now I was a little sceptical that this might be a gentle extension of the dressmaking classes that I went on last year at my local fabric shop, and that they wouldn't be anything like the St Martins course that I really had my eye on, but I couldn't have been more wrong. The course has challenged me in so many directions: from asking me to keep track of current fashions to researching their Victorian roots, to developing my own designs from them and learning how to translate them onto fabric. It's even highlighted problems in fashion design that I may have maths answers to: a lot of work on creativity and analogy translates well into fashion design, and much of the maths of surfaces and optimised curves on them can be put to use in developing shapes that fit onto the human form (and specifically onto the convex curves all over the average woman). It's wonderful... and now I'm going to eat supper and get on with my pattern-cutting homework.
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