I think if you get the right attitude, then there's very little to stop you.

From Seamwork Magazine, I'm Sarah Mitnick, and this is Seamwork Radio, where we tell stories from people who make clothing.

Picture this. What if there was a website where you could enter in your body measurements

and get a customized pattern fitted exactly to your size to download? And what if it were

totally free? That's the idea behind makemypattern.com, a website that is exactly that. The guy behind Make My

Pattern is Yost de Kook, a sewer living in Antwerp, who put this project together after learning

to make his own patterns. Yost is pretty good at teaching himself things. In four years,

he's gone from only annoying enough to do some mending and make some curtains, to sewing all his

own clothes and drafting his own patterns. I talked to Yost about how he learns, and about his curtains to sewing all his own clothes and drafting his own patterns.

I talked to Yost about how he learns and about his mission to get more men to sew.

Yost seems to have a natural curiosity that's really let him pick up a lot of skills quickly, but formal learning was a different story.

I never really liked school, which is a bit of an understatement. I always hated school with

passion. So I finished high school. I went to college because I was sort of, well, I had to,

but I didn't finish college. He never really got along with his teachers very well.

I got a bit of a problem with authority. Yeah, I don't know.

I think it's a combination of that.

The fact that I was already, I mean, I'm 6'6 and I was quite tall already as a kid.

And I think that teachers have this sort of approach where they pick on the tallest kid to set an example.

So it was never, it was a love-hate relationship.

Well, actually a hate-hate-relationship, probably.

And also, I learn much better on my own.

I just don't absorb the material if somebody's explaining it to me.

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