Hello, I’m Naima

I learned to draft in a tailor’s workshop, where the first thing I was handed was a pencil and a long sheet of brown paper, not a sewing machine. For years I drafted patterns for other people’s clothes, and for more than twenty years I have taught others to do the same. The tape measure round my neck is not a pose: I use it every day.

I do not sell clothes or patterns made to your size. What I teach is the method, so that you can draft your own: a bodice block, a skirt block, a sleeve and trousers, each from your own measurements. What I sell is the part that helps you do it: the workbooks I have written and tested, a few worksheets for the tricky bits, and two video courses that take you from a tape measure to a block that fits.