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I’m no help on slouchy vs sloppy, but on the sewing with double gauze: it’s trickier than lawn or quilting cotton, at least in my opinion. It doesn’t stretch exactly, but it has way more give than most wovens, so you have to be careful when cutting and sewing in a similar way that you do when working with knits. It also doesn’t press all that…[Read more]

Congratulations! I also like the Snap Source set – I’ve used the Dritz hammer-in snaps and had OK success, but I do occasionally ruin one of them. I haven’t had a Snap Source failure yet. I’ve also used KAM snaps (with the pliers), and I don’t love them on anything thin, delicate, stretchy, or too thick. Prong length can be either too short or…[Read more]

I have no advice, but my husband has exactly the same issue and as a result all of his RTW shirts are too big on his torso. So if you have success with the modification I’d love to hear about it!

Thanks so much!

Oh, absolutely no apologies necessary! This is all great information!

@motherof5, would I still need to do the FBA, given that the classic shirt has pattern pieces for cup sizes? Thanks for the link!

Mom is in town and measured! And as suspected, I’m going to have to do some modifications. Length and sleeve length I get, but I’m not quite sure what to do about her shoulders, which are quite narrow. If I go by bust size, she’s an 8, but by waist/hips more like 12. I know shoulders are harder to change on the pattern – should I trace the 8 at…[Read more]

I got 2.5 yards of lovely Liberty yesterday! I can’t get over how silky it is!

I also got several yards of a lightweight muslin for pattern altering. Unwashed, it’s fairly crisp, and I could see that as being advantageous for marking/pinning etc. Since I’m planning to use the muslin for pattern pieces, not for wearing, can I/should I skip the…[Read more]

Mind you, I’ve never made this pattern, but what about using the baptism dress fabric for the center panel of the Hide and Seek dress? I *think* you could maybe even continue the center panel onto the skirt, but that’s based 100% on the line drawing (I don’t own the pattern). But I’ve seen some beautiful examples of that dress being used to…[Read more]

There’s a tutorial with pictures here:

sunny day shorts tutorial, part II

but generally, yes – you join the short ends first, right sides together (usually along with some folding/pressing). Then you attach the waistband to the wrong side of the shorts (wrong side of the shorts facing the RIGHT…[Read more]

I’m planning a gift sew for my mother, who loves a good shirt and is doing me a big favor in March (she’s flying across the country to watch my son while I’m in the hospital having a baby). I’d like to splurge and make the shirt out of Liberty lawn, but I know I’ll need substantial alterations for my mother (narrow shoulders and petite). I know…[Read more]

Thanks, Liesl! Yeah, once I read the fabric suggestions I figured that some stretch was assumed. And I agree that I’ve never seen a completely rigid french terry either – I haven’t actually ever made these with french terry, but that would be my 2nd choice for sweatpants, behind sweatshirt fleece (it’s just so cozy!), provided that I can find some…[Read more]

My son is 3 – I haven’t measured his chest recently, but he also has a 21 inch waist. The 3T school bus tee is fitting him nicely now – plenty of ease but not baggy, and the right length.

If you were to size down in width, I’d still keep the length of the 3 or 4 – I often add a little extra length when I make this shirt, because my son almost…[Read more]

@aplazarus, I REALLY hope this doesn’t come across as creepy/stalkerish! I only investigated it because I had the exact same problem/question when I first posted some photos to Flickr. But assuming there’s consistency with your username between here and Flickr, your photo in the O+S photostream only appears for me if I’m logged in to my Flickr…[Read more]

As far as I know, no, but it does have to be public. And I know I’ve had absolutely no luck in making my photos on Flickr public, possibly because when I set up my account I made private the default. But even trying to undo that at time of upload, all my pictures seem to be private.

I’ve done this in the smaller sizes. Someone on here advised me that it would probably be better to take some of the length off of each piece. What I ended up doing was to trace each piece with the width of the size I wanted, but the length of one size down. That worked out pretty well.

@nancyh, that makes sense! Thanks!
Finished the pants – no problems with construction, and the pockets are just what I wanted:

I haven’t finished pant construction yet (I still have to attach the waistband), but so far, splitting the pants piece at the notch on the waist edge seems to have worked, and the Art Museum pockets went in with only a little futzing.