Sewing Question

A few questions (which may or may not be relevent):

Are you male or female?

Child or adult?

Do you have a sewing machine?

Do you have *any* previous experience sewing?

If "yes", what was the result?

Do you have good ironing equipment?

Do you have fabric?

Do you want to make clothing?

Or curtains?

Or ?????

Beverly

s. Though I want to hand sew.

buttons, and I made a pillow in the 7th grade, and I actually still have it = after 20+ years.

ayed on for a long time.

Beverly,

Hello! Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Follow up is not one of my strong suits, but here I am. I want to make professional business clothes for myself. Though I don't know how to enlarge a pattern or even how to pick out the appropriate patterns for what I want to make.

My measurements don't fit the usual for women, so I have to modify patterns or make my own.

Bust: 52 1/2" Waist: 48" Hips: 58"

Those are the most recent measurements I have. I would appreciate any suggestions, especially since I want to make my clothes by hand. I don't like mending, which is why I haven't been sewing for a long time.

Starsong

NAYY,

Beverly

You are almost exactly Connie Crawford's size 2x -- you'll need to reshape the side seams in the waist area to account for your straighter waist. Easiest way to get a pattern to try is probably through the series she's been doing for Butterick.

?tab=whats_new&page=2 There are more on her own website: 'm not sure why Butterick is using just the sketches on the website -- if you look in the paper catalog, you can see samples that are actually on models,and it's easier to visualize the garments for a lot of people. I believe her plus sample size is a 3x D, about 5'4" tall. That means you're not going to see the giant shoulders and neckline and other infelicities induced by grading up a 2x from a 10 with the usual rules. She makes her patterns twice, once for misses size and once for plus because the proportions change between those two ranges. Most are fairly basic because she wants people to be able to

My mom was about your size and the 2x patterns fit her almost out of the envelope (I had to do some altering for a shoulder issue) Made it very easy for me to keep her in clothes. I did not have nearly the luck with most other patterns, other than the ones I drafted especially for her.

Kay

ps: Joann Fabrics has Butterick patterns for $2 15-17 May, if you have one near you. You might try B5215, an easy t shirt for knits for a quick project, or the shirt from B5053 for wovens.