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The Secret to Better-Fitting Clothes? Start With Your Measurements
Have you ever been really excited about sewing a new garment to wear, carefully chosen your size, cut out your pattern and started sewing — only to find that the finished garment doesn't fit properly? Or at all? One of the main reasons my students give me for attending any of my dressmaking classes is that they're fed up with sewing clothes only to find they don't fit. And what on earth is going on with sizing on sewing pattern packets? It's just as random as sizing in the sh
Tara Deighton
Oct 73 min read
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