Today's my blogversary

Yipee! Today's my blogversary. I can't believe it's been a whole year. I never thought I would like blogging so much but I do...I love it. None of my friends sew and they only person I really talk about my sewing with is my husband. He is a hoot. Every since he watched Schmatta: Rags to Riches, he walks around the house saying he used to be a cutter in the garment district! He loved that documentary and must have watched it at least five times. Anyway I'm happy to have so many internet sewing friends. Thank you all.

Amazing Fit

After all of my ranting and raving about the Amazing Fit I got with the Simplicity slack pattern 2860, Faye asked what I meant by "scooped out crotch." I think part of the reason the 2860 slacks fit so well is that I've finally figured out how to shape the back crotch for my particular figure.

While these don't look too bad, I hate how I get the weird cupping under my butt cheeks.

I'm pretty sure it's because most commercial patterns are shaped like figure A. For the Simplicity pattern I scooped out the rear crotch curve to look like figure B. If you think about it, look at your figure from the side. Figure A represents a figure that has a relatively flat rear while figure B represents a figure with curves. FYI I did use the curvy pattern pieces for the Simplicity slacks.

What do you think? Am I onto something?

Amazing Fit - Simplicity 2860

Marketed as Amazing Fit, these slacks are just that...Amazing. When I started these slacks I did my usual 1 1/2" wedge to the center back but had to remove all of it.

The only change I had to make was to scoop out the back crotch curve a little and got this amazing fit. So inamored was I with the fit that I quickly got to JoAnn's and bought 2700, 2562 and an Amazing Fit skirt pattern 2475. The only thing I disliked about the pattern was the zipper application as I forgot to overlay the fly pattern piece on the slacks front so had to install the zipper per the instructions. Couldn't quite wrap my head around that and had to remover the zipper three times before I got it right. I didn't have the correct color zipper and since I didn't start them until midnight, had to use what I had on hand.

I omitted the belt carriers and lengthened the legs 1 1/2". I'm going to try them again in a black crepe. I want to make sure the amazing fit didn't happen by accident.