115cm matters

Last night I attended a sewing lesson which has been my first in over twenty years. John was teaching the class how to draft a pattern from Winifred’s pattern book and so I had my measurements taken, these were the full works and I don’t ever remember having these measurements taken before. When I did my BTEC Fashion in my pattern cutting class at the time we did use the same book to make a standard size 12 block, then we were given standard size 12 blocks for all the blocks we needed, bodice, skirt, trousers, sleeve and a coat. I felt my brain had become a bit muddled with all the maths needed to break down and recalculate the measurements to get the correct lines in making the block.

As I was making the curve of the armhole and learning about the dart point, I learnt if you are a fuller the bust the point comes over towards more to the armhole. So it would seem that twenty years apart & (although slimmer than then) I am on the side of curvaceousness than I was a few years ago.