Does anyone under 30 wear anything but a sports bra these days?? I'm so tired of sewing for girls who don't wear anything but stretchy loungewear because their measurements never make sense!
Janet and I are going to be building 10 strapless gowns for a local debutant event, and I got all the measurements (& photos) a few days ago. I made the mistake of putting them all in a spreadsheet last night before bed so I could see how many sizes I might need to start with for a base pattern.
So of course, the wacky sports bra distortions were all my brain could focus on correcting for when I was trying to go to sleep. Four of the girls have overbust measurements that are bigger than their full bust measurements. Arg. Stupid annoying sports bras!
Luckily, seven girls are nearly the same size and very close to my measurements. So this morning, I think I have been able to extrapolate pretty accurate bra sizes for all of them after measuring myself in my normal bra, no bra, and in a built-in bra tank top. (In the tank, I get a one inch larger overbust compared to full bust too.) But good grief, it shouldn't be this hard!
I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
I draped a really rough half-scale ruffle tail for one of the debutant dresses Janet & I are making. I just eyeballed and freehand cut a scrap of (un-ironed) muslin in a spiral and pinned it to my little dress form to make sure it was long enough to reach from hem to waist. Then I marked the folds and traced it onto graph paper and cleaned it up. The graph paper makes it easier to copy at 200% and tape the pieces back together.
I'll transfer the enlarged frankenstein paper pattern to brown paper when I'm back at the studio tomorrow or Friday and then make it out of the real fabric.
#ruffle #fiestabuild
I made 2 of these valentine garlands. Found the tutorial via Instagram and thought it would be perfect to send to Ashley, my daughter in Oregon, and Madison, my birth daughter in North Carolina.
Pics are from Ashley.
