Once upon a time or back in the day

Once upon a time, and long, long time ago, I could take a size 10 pattern straight from the envelope and make garments without FBA's, upper round, forward shoulder adjustments.  Advance forward many, many years.  Now I take a multi-sized pattern and normally use a size 14 upper chest/shoulder then shift to 16 for bust and waist and then taper back to 14 on some patterns at hip to hemline.  Sometimes I just cut out the 16 from waist to hem and adjust the seams as necessary when basting and sewing garment during sewing process.

Today I pin fitted the Simplicity 2360 pattern and determined that I needed FBA of 1.5 inches which required adjusting the side front piece first, then adjust the front piece, which then required an adjustment to the front flounce piece.  No cheater FBA for this; I used the FFRP method that works well for me.  Once you adjust one piece you must remember all the other pieces that will be impacted.  Before doing all of those adjustments I lengthened the all of those pieces by 3/4 inch as I felt it was a little to short waisted.

That took over an hour to complete.  The front, side front, back and side back bodice pieces are pinned to the fabric ready to cut out.  The fabric I am using is a rayon/linen blend.  I had some matching yellow lining but unfortunately no where near enough.  I have some pale yellow lining that I will be using.

I am getting ready to watch a movie with DH.  Update tomorrow.