McCall's 3830 and Simplicity 4079 Muslin

 I have started working on fitting my vest (Simplicity 4079). It took me about 3 hours to go from tracing, to adding seam lines, to cutting out, to tissue fitting, to sewing up a muslin and this is with many interruptions from my kids. I can see that I will need to make an FBA and add more with in the waist. I does fit but just not the way I would like. So tonight I hope to spend a few hours adjusting my pattern and trying out the adjustments in muslin. I think I'm going to add the width using the back pattern piece and do the FBA to the front pieces. I'm only going to do one adjustment at a time and try to tissue fit with each adjustment, with making a muslin and each adjustment I think will be too time consuming. The FBA will be the only one I do from the book everything else I'll be figuring out as I go. This is really going to be a learning assignment for me, but end the end I will have learned more about fitting and have some nice clothes to show for it...hopefully.

So here is where I finished with last night McCall's 3830 and Simplicity 4079 both in muslin stage and ready for changes to the paper pattern for both. The skirt pattern just needs a length and waist change which I think will be easy to do without having to make another muslin. The vest as I said earlier I know will need at least one more maybe two more muslins, but I will not rush it I will take my time with everything and just enjoy the process and hopefully the beautiful garments afterward.
 While working with the vest pattern I realized how much I really like the look and how it looked on me, at first I thought that maybe I would only make it  one or two times but I can see this as a regular in my wardrobe, so hopefully another TnT in the works.
Until next time, happy sewing...