skirt as top

Great tip, thank you Robin!

Great tip, thank you Robin!

Liesl and co patterns should match your ready to wear size. Other patterns may not. Here’s the blog post from Liesl about sizing….

finding your correct pattern size

Hallo Missy! 🙂

Kind of…

Flickr is being very uncooperative! It keeps saying it’s timing out?

I agree, if we wanted clothes that sort of fit we could buy off the rack — part of the pleasure of sewing yourself is taking a good solid pattern and making those tweaks that make it fit a unique individual’s body, as you say. And we’re blessed with such a wealth of knowledge and experience among our group, and I found Melanie’s heirloom sewing…[Read more]

Fourth time attempting to post….
Congratulations!

Fourth time attempting to post….
Congratulations!

So darling!

Good to know, thanks!

I love Thread Theory Tiina.

@Reeni, I am sorry, my jolly computer won’t show your photos.

How radiant does Britters look?

Modelling her Gallery tunic.

On other patterns, I sort of eye ball it and see where it works best (i.e. won’t alter the shape too much).

I would love to know if there is a rule of thumb. The last few vintage patterns I have sewn tell you to ‘lengthen above this line’.

I don’t have a pattern number for you but I have had success making casual pull on trousers from pj’s bottoms patterns.
You will need to add pockets and there looks to be a boot leg type thing going on, so maybe a teen style range?

Hm, maybe a BHA tutorial is in order for those needing to make big head adjustments! Any volunteers to write one? Meleliza, your last guest post was so detailed and useful, want to tackle this?

Over thirty thousand happy photos in the flickr group, so it seems the brand as a whole is not designed for unusually small heads.

Well, what I wound up doing was putting it on and re-marking the apex. This time only about 8 inches from the side seam, and sewed from there to the same spot where the ‘legs’ of the dart ended before. Hopefully it looks a bit better. I’ll put up a pic as soon as I can get flickr working again!

Is anyone else having trouble commenting on the blog? It may be our horrendous internet connection.