Ready Made Patterns or Draft Your Own? What Do You Prefer?

Hello all! Last time I did a survey you all overwhelmingly wanted to learn how to sew clothing. I've been putting together a list of techniques to teach, videos to shoot, and patterns to design - and figuring out what order to present everything in - and we're getting started next week. As I design the patterns I find myself with a question.

When it comes to clothing patterns - what do you prefer? Fully drafted patterns in multiple sizes? Or learning to draft patterns to fit specific measurements?

Fully drafted patterns in multiple sizes
On the plus side - you theoretically print, cut and sew. On the minus side - most of them will need to be tiled, so you'll end up printing out multiple pages and taping the pieces together. Irritating, but not the end of the world. The biggest minus from my perspectibe is that most ready-drafted patterns need at least some alteration to fit a specific body, so you'll need to do some measuring and adjusting and redrawing anyway. You might as well draw it to fit from the beginning.

Learning to draft patterns to fit specific measurements
On the plus side - you can make the pattern to fit the specific body you're making the garment for. You can easily adjust that pattern as your child grows - or make design alterations to suit your creativity. I only design things with simple silhouettes so this is totally doable, even for absolute beginners. In fact, it wasn't until I got totally frustrated, gave up on commercial patterns, and started making my own out of desperation that I finally had some sewing success. On the minus side - some people totally freak out when they hear "draft patterns" and I don't want to scare anyone.

The Plan
Whether I draft the patterns or you do, we'll start with some really simple things like a simple straight skirt and a gathered apron, and move on to basic pants/shorts, different skirt sillhouettes, shirts, etc. Along the way I'll give you all kinds of ways to play with those basic patterns - adding sleeves to a sleeveless dress, adding all kinds of cool pockets to skirts and pants, fancy seam treatments, color blocking, every kind of closure you can imagine, etc.

Right now I'm leaning toward teaching you to draft your own patterns. It sounds really advanced, but I believe it's actually easier for beginners. Especially for the kind of designs I'm talking about. I've done some of this with kids as young as 6 so it's definitely doable. But I'm willing to be talked out of it. What do you all think? What do you want? You can answer in the comments, or shoot me an email. Or you can head over to the Facebook page and answer in the fancy-schmancy survey I put up there.

This is going to be SO MUCH FUN! I can't wait to see what you all make!