Drafting your own Pattern. Do or Dont?

With commercial patterns I feel so out of the norm. Once I started drafting my own pattern I really start to feel sewing was fun. With commercial patterns I have at least 4 alterations every time and when drafting Its reduces my sewing time at least in half.

So, Do you have any experience drafting your patterns? If not, would you consider?

I have more than 2 books on the matter but the ones I use are and recommend:

Make your own patterns - Rene Bergh

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Permalink Reply by Rosy on July 25, 2011 at 4:11am

I learned to sew writing my own patterns, this is a luxury, because you take the measuresdirectly from your body and the perfect pattern is obtained, without further amendments,also ... it's a double luxury because you can get any garment that goes through your mind or see in a magazine or a showcase ... you are not limited to the patterns that are in yourstash, make your own pattern frees iliminada. It's great!
I only use commercial patterns when I find the exact model I want, (which is fine) but it has limitations.

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Pinheiro on July 26, 2011 at 2:54pm

Oh Rosy, so lucky you. I am still tryingto get my way around drafting mime own...

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Permalink Reply by Cathe on July 25, 2011 at 6:32am

I'm not ready to draft my own patterns, my sewing knowledge is still to limited. Drafting is on my "someday" list. But certainly *almost* every pattern gets alterations for a better fit...I'm learning :)

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Pinheiro on July 26, 2011 at 2:54pm

You sew so beautifully and sure when you learn will be very liberating from alterations...

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Permalink Reply by girlwiththestarspangledheart on July 25, 2011 at 7:23am

I am branching out in to drafting my own patterns! Right now, I'm not up to starting from scratch, but I'm learning! I have How to Make Sewing Patterns by Donald H. McCunn. Not sure how good it is but I found it cheap at a used book store and it looks pretty good to me.