Sewing Sunday: Pastille Progress Edition

Last night at Virtual Craft Night, I challenged everyone to finish a project.  All of my WiPs are so far from finished I was initially going to start something new and quick just so I could get something done.  But then I got more muslin and decided that I was going to fit my Pastille, dammit.

With the help of my Craftsy class Sew the Perfect Fit and my dress form, Claudia, I got to work!

Claudia was so helpful in this process!  I spent some time earlier tracing off the pattern pieces so all I had to do was cut the muslin and start sewing and fitting.

I have a new found appreciation for grain lines in the fitting process.  This seems to take forever, but I feel like it was worth it to have a garment that really fits well.  The Pastille is a great sheath dress, but that means that fit is King.

Ignore Claudia's Sassy Bra (tm)

The next step was transferring all these changes back to the paper patterns pieces which included a lot of pausing the Craftsy video lessons, doing a thing, and watching it again to see if I did it right.

What madness is this?!

I never could have done it without Claudia or I would have had to get a friend to help me with this process.

The result was great!  I tried it on myself and only found a few things that I needed to change.  The darts were sloping inward because I was so worried about the fit over the bust that I over-looked them.  I hind-sight I would have added the width inside the dart toward the center front rather than outside, but eh, live and learn.

Look!  A result!

I only had to make a few minor changes, but considering it was just the first fitting, I was impressed!!

Almost final pattern.  I need to take some more out of the shoulder seams.

I really wanted to get the skirt fitted too, but at 2 AM I ran out of steam.  I know I wasn't much company at    Virtual Craft Night because I was deeply concentrating on this bull mess.

I would highly recommend this Craftsy class to anyone who likes to sew from commercial patterns and would like them to fit better!  I am learning so much!