Oh, it's been so miserable being too ill to sew!
I'm fortunate that I'm generally pretty healthy, despite having two primary-age children AND being a teacher myself, but this virus has knocked me for six. I haven't sewn in 4 days - the first 4 days this year I haven't sewn anything - and I miss it, but in the evenings I've just crawled into bed.
I'm so close to finishing my Harrison now; just need to topstitch the collar stand, add cuffs, buttonholes, and hem.
My initial thoughts are: I don't need this much bust space after all. I've got the space hitting the right point, but there's extra at the side (where the second line of the princess seam panel hits the side) that I just don't need. My bust is more.. forward than wide? Sort of?
I think it's part of how narrow my back and shoulders are. There's not a lot of ...me around. Not a lot of side. . .
I will get pictures soon.
Given that I want this to be wearable; I think I can sort the problem by simply bringing the seam in at that point; but I'm basically going to be flattening out the princess seam at that point, which makes the double-princess-seam somewhat redundant. I wonder if I'm plus enough or busty enough to actually need Cashmerette patterns; I seem to spend a lot of my time narrowing/shortening them...
BUT! I have realised that princess seams, in general, are my jam. It's an easy way to get the space where I want it and nowhere else; which I've not figured out with regular bust darts, yet.
I'm fortunate that I'm generally pretty healthy, despite having two primary-age children AND being a teacher myself, but this virus has knocked me for six. I haven't sewn in 4 days - the first 4 days this year I haven't sewn anything - and I miss it, but in the evenings I've just crawled into bed.
I'm so close to finishing my Harrison now; just need to topstitch the collar stand, add cuffs, buttonholes, and hem.
My initial thoughts are: I don't need this much bust space after all. I've got the space hitting the right point, but there's extra at the side (where the second line of the princess seam panel hits the side) that I just don't need. My bust is more.. forward than wide? Sort of?
I think it's part of how narrow my back and shoulders are. There's not a lot of ...me around. Not a lot of side. . .
I will get pictures soon.
Given that I want this to be wearable; I think I can sort the problem by simply bringing the seam in at that point; but I'm basically going to be flattening out the princess seam at that point, which makes the double-princess-seam somewhat redundant. I wonder if I'm plus enough or busty enough to actually need Cashmerette patterns; I seem to spend a lot of my time narrowing/shortening them...
BUT! I have realised that princess seams, in general, are my jam. It's an easy way to get the space where I want it and nowhere else; which I've not figured out with regular bust darts, yet.
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