So organised. Such sewing.

Soooooooo it turns out that I should have read the instructions for the patterns I'm using before I printed them, not before I started cutting them out. Whoops!

Rewinding: I found a new place that prints sewing patterns for you! It's called Fabulosew and it's half the price that Netprinter was, so: winning! Run off a bunch of patterns that I wanted to work on, everything is great. Check out Cashmerette's sizing calculator before I do, it says I should be a C-cup with a small bust adjustment. ... I beg your fucking pardon. I haven't been a C cup since I was a pre-teen. Go home calculator, you're drunk.

No. What I missed was that if your top half has very different measurements to your bottom half, you're supposed to sister-size to whatever size is closest to your waist/hip measurements. So in Cashmerette sizes a 127cm/50" bust is both a 20G/H, and a 22C/D. And I'm a 26 at the waist and hips. Which means that this G/H size pattern I've run off is TECHNICALLY incorrect, but it's too late! Guess I'm learning how to grade patterns now!

*screams internally*

Things I am actively working on: ( Read more... )

Things I finished: one of the pairs of underwear I was working on, then realised that the elastic I was using for the last ones I'd also allocated to the bralette that was going wrong, so I didn't have enough. *facepalm* It's fine, I have like half a dozen rolls of elastic, I just need to measure it all out.

Things I am proud of: not melting the interfacing to my iron this time!