March sewing project - cutting

More on my March project.  

As I said Monday, I took the pattern from this book by Dolin Bliss O'Shea. She has a ready to wear background. The patterns in this book are very basic, which is great for many reasons. But, I ran into a couple of things I would change while making the one I did.

All the patterns fit into this rather small pouch at the front of the book ... amazing!

And, all each dress is named after the famous person who wore it. I decided to make the "Angelika"!

Here is the line drawing. Good basic cut for a knit dress or top, which is what I ended up making.

No surprise really to find that the patterns are all drawn on top of each other on both sides of all the papers stuffed in that pouch.  They need to be traced out. I recently bought myself a roll of doctor examination table paper. It is cheap, and you can see through it, and write on it and it is a little stronger that pattern tissue ... just the thing.

I love working with stripes and checks. It is so easy to straighten out the bottom edge of the fabric before cutting, which is always really important!

And, here is the first thing I changed.  The instructions say to fold the fabric in half, put the front on the fold and the back piece along the selvedge which means a seam is needed up the center back.  WHY? I want as few seams as possible in this knit.  I don't know why they didn't say to fold the fabric like this so both the front and back can be on a fold.


So, that's it .. all cut.  The sewing happens on Friday.