Adjusting My Waist
Hello again,
After last weeks post I got welcomed unsolicited advice from my friend Kathy, who has a lot more experience in the field of making clothing. Through our little dialogue & looking through the various alterations in the Colette Sewing Handbook, I decided to tackle adjusting the waist first. I believe this may remedy the "loose diagonal wrinkles, " that I have. So this past week I just worked on adjusting the paper pattern.
The Large Waist Alteration for the bodice portion of the dress is a simple pivot alteration, where you slice the pattern almost completely through, then swing out the loose portion out however you need it, and redraw the waist & darts. Once I finally get to the skirt portion of this project, its not going to be as straight-forward simple.
My original paper copy of the Bodice front was still in deceit shape, so I made the adjustments needed to that copy. Definitely glad I kept my math from my failed Mock-up 1.
My original copy of the Bodice Back was a slightly different story. When I had cut out the fabric Bodice Backs, I cut off a little of the bottom edge. So I used my tracing board to make a new Bodice Back Pattern. Once that was complete, I marked it up for the large waist adjustment.
So I'm now ready to adjust the muslin & move on to the next thing.
See you again next week when I should have at least the Waist Readjusted Muslin done.
After last weeks post I got welcomed unsolicited advice from my friend Kathy, who has a lot more experience in the field of making clothing. Through our little dialogue & looking through the various alterations in the Colette Sewing Handbook, I decided to tackle adjusting the waist first. I believe this may remedy the "loose diagonal wrinkles, " that I have. So this past week I just worked on adjusting the paper pattern.
The Large Waist Alteration for the bodice portion of the dress is a simple pivot alteration, where you slice the pattern almost completely through, then swing out the loose portion out however you need it, and redraw the waist & darts. Once I finally get to the skirt portion of this project, its not going to be as straight-forward simple.
My original paper copy of the Bodice front was still in deceit shape, so I made the adjustments needed to that copy. Definitely glad I kept my math from my failed Mock-up 1.
My original copy of the Bodice Back was a slightly different story. When I had cut out the fabric Bodice Backs, I cut off a little of the bottom edge. So I used my tracing board to make a new Bodice Back Pattern. Once that was complete, I marked it up for the large waist adjustment.
So I'm now ready to adjust the muslin & move on to the next thing.
See you again next week when I should have at least the Waist Readjusted Muslin done.
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