For shirt #2 I decided to switch patterns. It's hot and short sleeves are in order. Well... sort of. Because it's cold as hell in the office and you know I'll end up wearing a sweater every day of the year.
I went with simplicity 4589 and used the ocean blue shot cotton that I was going to use for the other pattern.
It turned out okay. The boobage area is a bit too tight. It was only last week that I realized what FBA means, but I still don't know how to actually make a full bust adjustment. I made this shirt off of my high bust measurement instead of the last shirt which was made from my real bust measurement. No wonder it was so huge. I actually have tiny shoulders.
And I used a smaller seam allowance by mistake, a 3/8 instead of a 5/8 inch seam. That may account for the neckline gaping out. I'm actually wearing the shirt backwards because it looks better this way!
I'm wondering now if I should be taking some sort of clothes sewing class. I just want everything to be perfect immediately and not have to alter patterns every single time. That's not the way it works, though, and maybe a class would help me learn how to do those alterations. I've looked up a couple of classes and some of them want to teach you how to sew before you learn to make clothes. I'm sure there are lots of other quilters out there who branch out into clothes much later. There has got to be a class that fits my skill level.
For now, I'll continue to teach myself and read up online. I think my next pattern will be a summer dress with different cup sizes already built into the pattern.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 2:52PM 
