Burning the midnight oil making adjustments to a pattern for a ladies’ viste that I drafted based on original 1880s patterning techniques. It’s a constant back-and-forth process drafting paper pattern pieces, creating a muslin, fitting it on our model and then making changes as necessary. It’s a painstaking, time-consuming process but it’s the only way to assure a good fit. Yes, to paraphrase, it’s 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration (and a lost of muslin gets consumed in the process). 🙂