Last night I attended a sewing lesson which has been my first in over twenty years. John was teaching the class how to draft a pattern from Winifred’s pattern book and so I had my measurements taken, these were the full works and I don’t ever remember having these measurements taken before. When I did my BTEC Fashion in my pattern cutting class at the time we did use the same book to make a standard size 12 block, then we were given standard size 12 blocks for all the blocks we needed, bodice, skirt, trousers, sleeve and a coat. I felt my brain had become a bit muddled with…