Pants that fit!!!
On a different note...
I am wearing my first ever custom pair of pants that I drafted for myself... pants that actually fit me!!! It's still in mockup stage, with cheap pant weight cotton I bought on sale for about $2/yd. But when this pair is tweaked right, I will be making my own mundane pants from now on. I may even make myself a pair of jeans... maybe.
I made the draft pattern following Connie Amadon-Crawford's instructions in her book Patternmaking Made Easy. I am so now a convert to this book, especially over Armstrong's drafting book. Pretty easy to follow instructions all lined out step by step. What was great is that she has directions on how to draft specifically for a larger woman. Well this larger woman is ever so happy to follow. And I no longer have to try and muslin fit a pattern made by someone else for the "average" or "standard" sizes, especially when they blow things out of proportion for us larger gals.
I do have a high hip I am seeing, and my waistline in front dips a bit from the back, which is common in larger sizes, but my crotch isn't hanging way down low, and there isn't lots of fabric gathered around my thighs or all over for that matter. Pretty much from just the basic blocking they fit, and pretty decently at that.
It's so very nice having pants that actually fit and look decent, and aren't cutting off my circulation, or looking like ... muumuu pants from pregnancy. :-)
Now if only I had another woman nearby who sewed... wait I do, but I think at this time of night she's probably sleeping.
Well, I am done for tonight. I need to figure out how to adjust the sides of the pants just a bit so I don't look like I have saddlebags, because I don't. Just large firm buns sitting up high, and thighs and calves from hell. There were really good advantages of constant dancing when I was young, and I kick myself for having given that up way back when. I know, tmfi for some. I just wanted people to know you don't have to have a perfect body to have pants that fit.
I am wearing my first ever custom pair of pants that I drafted for myself... pants that actually fit me!!! It's still in mockup stage, with cheap pant weight cotton I bought on sale for about $2/yd. But when this pair is tweaked right, I will be making my own mundane pants from now on. I may even make myself a pair of jeans... maybe.
I made the draft pattern following Connie Amadon-Crawford's instructions in her book Patternmaking Made Easy. I am so now a convert to this book, especially over Armstrong's drafting book. Pretty easy to follow instructions all lined out step by step. What was great is that she has directions on how to draft specifically for a larger woman. Well this larger woman is ever so happy to follow. And I no longer have to try and muslin fit a pattern made by someone else for the "average" or "standard" sizes, especially when they blow things out of proportion for us larger gals.
I do have a high hip I am seeing, and my waistline in front dips a bit from the back, which is common in larger sizes, but my crotch isn't hanging way down low, and there isn't lots of fabric gathered around my thighs or all over for that matter. Pretty much from just the basic blocking they fit, and pretty decently at that.
It's so very nice having pants that actually fit and look decent, and aren't cutting off my circulation, or looking like ... muumuu pants from pregnancy. :-)
Now if only I had another woman nearby who sewed... wait I do, but I think at this time of night she's probably sleeping.
Well, I am done for tonight. I need to figure out how to adjust the sides of the pants just a bit so I don't look like I have saddlebags, because I don't. Just large firm buns sitting up high, and thighs and calves from hell. There were really good advantages of constant dancing when I was young, and I kick myself for having given that up way back when. I know, tmfi for some. I just wanted people to know you don't have to have a perfect body to have pants that fit.