I am only 5' 4" tall and I can usually lop off 5-6 inches of length
from the skirt panels on these patterns (and save on the overall
yardage, hooray!). So, for me, they run long. ;-) OTOH, I found
that one of the back-closing bodices ran large while a front-closing
one was decidedly tight -- which makes no sense at all! But I'm also
flat-chested so that may skew the fit.
These patterns are a pain to work with but the results are usually
good. I always get compliments, even on the gown that's too big in
the bust. (Thank goodness for voluminous Italian chemises!) I spend
more time *preparing* to cut with these patterns... my solution for
the confusing layout of the multi-size pieces is to carefully go over
the lines of the one I want with an ultra-fine point Sharpie in a
particular color, then trace those colored lines onto whatever
tracing paper I have at hand (I prefer "Swedish tracing paper" but
haven't seen it for sale recently, so have been using cheap
interfacing) to make a permanent pattern of whichever view I want in
whichever size I want. That way I always have the originals for
comparison; by using different colors of markers on the originals I
don't get confused over which pieces I've used before (or not). I
also use the colored marker to label each traced piece as it's
created. This is just for the bodice and sleeves -- sInce the skirt
panels are fairly simple, I just fold those to fit and draw around
them on the fabric with tailor's chalk; I don't bother making new
skirt pieces each time.
Did I mention that I'm an extremely visual learner?
LOL, Suzanne
From: Dawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 6, 2008 3:00:38 PM CST
...
For those of you who have used this pattern, how does the sizing
run?(Large, small?) And for that matter, how do you figure out
what size you are? I'm not seeing it in the instructions. I
hesitate to assume what they say is a 10 will fit me.
Dawn
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