Mirroring Suzy Bee Sews - Life So Strange It Should Be Fiction

You may have seen a bit of a blogger buzz about a new website called The Curvy Sewing Collective. Its a new website ran by a great group of sewing bloggers with pattern reviews, fitting advice and general sewing and confidence advice, aimed at a plus size body shape. I've written a few posts for the site now, mostly focussing on fitting and sewing the Fehr Trade Duathlon leggings. Activewear 101: Patterns and Fabric Activewear 101: Leggings 1- Fitting Activewear 101: Leggings 2 - Pattern adjustments Activewear 101: Leggings 3 - Sewing The site is skewed towards more curvier sizes but I do think a fitting adjustment is the same no matter what your size. So please check it out and hopefully you might find some of the articles helpful next time you are doing a fitting.

I've joined into the Lekala sewalong hosted by Lara at Thornberry . The pattern is 4329 and since Lekala has personalised sizes the theory is that we shouldn't have to adjust the pattern........except for me, lol. I printed out and taped together the pattern this week. I used my measurements plus adding extra to the back, high waist and making the upper arm 17". Once the pattern was printed (and I checked the 4" printing square) I doubled checked the arm measurement and it was only 16".....based on that I decided to make a muslin. Now while I really do like Lekala patterns my biggest issue with them is that they work off full bust and don't add an option for a FBA (though they do now allow for a narrow shoulder option and I really should have added that), so the shoulders were too wide on me. Adjustments I made after the first muslin; Added 2" to the bicep width Added .5" to the back width. Took in the waist 1" at the centre back. Petited the...