So organised. Such sewing.

[spindizzy]

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:

• Cashmerette Holyoke dress — My quest for the summer was to find a cute dress pattern that would actually fit me! I've got most of the toile cut out, and it's... Hmmmm. It's going. I've done three (3) versions of the bodice and I think I've got it now? Going to assemble the real thing in this comfy black linen and hope it works.
  
  The main issue I'm having with the bodice was that the front waistband was too high to actually sit on my damn waist, so I tried the bigger bodice size for the front and dropping the waist about an inch. The back fit fine as it was, so I think that should be enough to even it out a bit. Will report back. Probably swearing profusely.


• Sew Liberated Estuary skirt — I sort-of fixed the waistband on the first skirt I was working on, aaaaaaaaaaaaand immediately started to work on a second skirt instead of continuing to fix the first one. I wish I was joking, but no. I went "Oh, I'm doing three Sew Liberated patterns, I'll do them all in the same material and be super efficient!" and then suddenly had ten (10) metres of a light denim to pre-wash and cut out. —_— It's fine! I can work with this! My current problem is that I forgot that I meant to make the waistband narrower. I think I need to chop about 15 centimetres off it total, but it's hard to work out because of how gathered the back waistband is supposed to be. Also I'm baffled by how the measurements are working out on this, because according to the measurements in the instructions, the waistband should have maybe a centimetre loose on me, plus the elastic, not enough to fit both my arms in as well.


• I'm still in the mock-up stages, but I've cut out and started assembling the pieces for the other two Sew Liberated patterns I've got. Not very far in, but having a grand time trying on the Otis overalls and singing about how these are my get-along pants because of just how wide the legs are.

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!