Mel...pattern...hummm....yes, I used a pattern. I actually used 2. One was a dress pattern (which realy looked nothing like the little coat and I used a hood pattern off a pattern that was too small. I enlarged that to fit and just sort of winged the rest. I knew what I wanted. So I just made it.
You are so clever, you sound just like my daughter. I taught her to sew but me I'm a pattern and direction follower all the way. She can just envision something and adapt from several different patterns just like you. She gets so frustrated with me because I have to follow each step and my mind just doesn't work as creatively as yours and hers.
We are undertaking a huge project right now, she is getting married in August and we are sewing two bridesmaids dresses, one junior bridesmaid dress(my nine y/o Jocelyn) one
flower girl dress, three mens and two little boys vests and ties(we want the men to have fancy vests and ties instead of the traditional rented tux) and Aimee's bridal gown!