....nor do I have any idea where it came from. But I do have a gift. I love to fit.
From Jackets
to wedding gowns
Nothing is too weird
or too classic
whether it's short
or long.
No one in my family sewed much (if at all) - - mostly sewing on buttons and taping hems. But more than that, I have a gift for fitting. It's really what I do the best.
This is what made the pants pattern class so much fun. Not only did my students walk away with a pants pattern, but they also walked away knowing themselves, their bodies and their lifestyles better. Some didn't need to zip in front and didn't want to learn that, some didn't like waistbands, some didn't know they were sway back, some did, and didn't know how to fit it.
It was so much fun watching the light bulb come on in each of my students. I just wish I knew how to pass that on without being there in person.
What we did was measure ourselves, but out a pattern larger than what we thought we would need, and pinch in...mostly on that "innerspace" - between the center back, crotch and center front lines. Then I would watch them walk, sit, stand, turn walk away from me, and if the pant hung straight from the largest part of their body, straight to the hem, then "We have a pattern!" Each student loved hearing that.
I guess being so picky about my own clothes all these years has finally paid off.
I'm so lucky to have found what I love, and to do this every day - well, OK I can't do it every day, but I want to and I get to do it most days!
