Day 5 of Printer Purgatory
Jan. 18th, 2021 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaSome parts arrived on Friday, but only half. Who knows when the other half will show up?
I adjusted the dates on the tracker app, and it for sure started yesterday, when it said it would. Woo!! The intensity of feeling like an alien in my own body and the dysphoria has definitely lessened A LOT since I stopped hormones, which will be a fun convo to have with my doctor in a few months. Still prefer using the cup over any other product.
AMALIA JACKET
marianme reached out asking to join my curtain-along which is totally great, I love doing stuff in groups! We're having a curtain-along revival lol. I finished the petticoat while watching TV on Saturday, so it's time for 100% jacket focus.
I lengthened the underarm only by 3/4. No appreciable difference, except that now the upper sleeve stays in place while I let it flop around, while v.1 half folds over. The hem still pulls up when I lift my arms above shoulder height.
I cut v.2 of the jacket bodice by:
-lengthening side piece via lengthen lines by 3/4"
-raising underarm on front and back pieces to match seamlines
-narrowing pieces around bustline to size 36
HOLY HANNAH PINCHY ARMS nope nope nope. I cut one front open more, and then said NO MORE, I needed to fix the pinchiness of the stays too. So Saturday morning I cut the binding off, lowered the fronts and underarms, rebound, added the hip wedge, and set my straps in the proper angle. And now - the hips fit better but my belly "falls out" at the front. Sigh. And it's still pinchy under the arm if I'm doing a lot of reaching forward, as in... doing pattern adjustments :/ MEAT SUITS WHY DO YOU EXIST.
ANYWAY. I went back to v.1 bc it still fit the best. I'm happy to go with it bc it doesn't ride up a lot, and how often am I going to be reaching above my shoulders? Yet I still want it to be PERFECT. My newest idea is to lengthen the bodice at the hem, let it sit where it likes, and cut the neckline and shoulder length down until the sleeves sit properly. I've recut the side bodice pattern and will reuse my current front and back pieces. Humans with narrow shoulders and large busts, how do you do these adjustments?
I adjusted the dates on the tracker app, and it for sure started yesterday, when it said it would. Woo!! The intensity of feeling like an alien in my own body and the dysphoria has definitely lessened A LOT since I stopped hormones, which will be a fun convo to have with my doctor in a few months. Still prefer using the cup over any other product.
AMALIA JACKET
marianme reached out asking to join my curtain-along which is totally great, I love doing stuff in groups! We're having a curtain-along revival lol. I finished the petticoat while watching TV on Saturday, so it's time for 100% jacket focus.I lengthened the underarm only by 3/4. No appreciable difference, except that now the upper sleeve stays in place while I let it flop around, while v.1 half folds over. The hem still pulls up when I lift my arms above shoulder height.
I cut v.2 of the jacket bodice by:
-lengthening side piece via lengthen lines by 3/4"
-raising underarm on front and back pieces to match seamlines
-narrowing pieces around bustline to size 36
HOLY HANNAH PINCHY ARMS nope nope nope. I cut one front open more, and then said NO MORE, I needed to fix the pinchiness of the stays too. So Saturday morning I cut the binding off, lowered the fronts and underarms, rebound, added the hip wedge, and set my straps in the proper angle. And now - the hips fit better but my belly "falls out" at the front. Sigh. And it's still pinchy under the arm if I'm doing a lot of reaching forward, as in... doing pattern adjustments :/ MEAT SUITS WHY DO YOU EXIST.
ANYWAY. I went back to v.1 bc it still fit the best. I'm happy to go with it bc it doesn't ride up a lot, and how often am I going to be reaching above my shoulders? Yet I still want it to be PERFECT. My newest idea is to lengthen the bodice at the hem, let it sit where it likes, and cut the neckline and shoulder length down until the sleeves sit properly. I've recut the side bodice pattern and will reuse my current front and back pieces. Humans with narrow shoulders and large busts, how do you do these adjustments?
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Date: 2021-01-18 08:06 pm (UTC)Seems like any little change in stays can make a big change in fit (or no change at all, there's no rhyme nor reason to it). If it's a large bust you're trying to fit with narrow shoulders, would you just widen in the front chest and under the arm, but keep the back narrow? (I am just pondering. I have no experience with fitting such a figure.) For sleeve range of motion, I am a big fan of just making the curve of the sleevehead shallower. Lower it at the top, raise it at the bottom, and, if it is too small for the armscye, slash and spread the sleevehead so it is longer horizontally. Good luck!
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Date: 2021-01-19 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-01-21 04:42 pm (UTC)It seams (ha! typo but I'm leaving it) that my shoulders and ribs are at a "standard" size 10, but a 14 bust, and then I have other fit issues that skew everything off. It's really frustrating! I'm starting to play with one size back and a different size front, so I don't think you're far off there.
For the sleeve I currently have an EXCESSIVE amount of fabric on the head lol. I wasn't worried about it yet bc of the way it will be fitted. And I think i need to take some width out, I have a loooot of it in the back.