Crepe muslin #3

Thanks to Kate and Cassie for their very helpful comments on muslin #2. I think I have figured this out. I made a new front today. I added the "dart" to the side per Kate's instructions to give my front side more width - it worked!!! But the section above the bust still wasn't right. So I re-read Cassie's comments and pinned up the shoulders. Almost, but not quite. As is common with full-busted women, our shoulders aren't as wide as one would think, purely based on bust size. So then I pinched out some of the shoulder seam vertically and the top finally hung the way it should. To compensate, I will have to add the length back to the bottom, but I really think this will do it!!! I'm going to mark up my muslin, copy to the pattern and then match it up with the skirt!! I am hoping to spend next weekend (I have Friday off, so another long weekend) starting on the Crepe with my fashion fabric!!!!!! I think for tomorrow, I'm going to work on the pencil skirt and maybe a nightgown...I need a break from all these fitting challenges.... At the rate I'm going, it may actually be spring by the time I finish this dress....

I really suck at Blogger, so all my pics are at the end.....



before changes

The back - the wrinkles are from me contorting to take this pic.....




After doing the pinning - you can see my belly button and surgery scar, so need to add length here.....

Long weekends...

I am planning on getting a final muslin of the Crepe dress done this weekend..I found a really good article this week (Threads, I think) on how to use a sloper to adjust paper patterns. I also want to work on the pencil skirt that I made a muslin for....Not today though, celebrating the BF's birthday!!

Hope all of you get some sewing time on this long weekend!!