Well, I decided I really like the aqua check seersucker, so thought I'd make another version from a different pattern that was closer to my body size and shape. I figured out that I purchased about 7 1/2 yards of this fabric from Hancocks Fabric in Vallejo in 2016 as it was going out of business. It's a beautiful fabric.
I used version 2 (out of 3) of my Kayla Pattern from the In House Patterns Fitting Essentials program. This has a date of March of 2023. I never did get it fit right, got frustrated and moved on. I had something like 28 adjustments made to the pattern, and it still wasn't right. The fit in the neck and shoulders is good. There are several areas I did adjust on this version and more I need to for my current body.
The bust dart is too high. The back has several issues including flaring out quite a bit at the hem, and I have folds from my right shoulder blade to my hip, as well as "bunching" for lack of a better word at the base of the back armholes. I also reduced the sleeve 1" in diameter at the hemline.
I'm having issues with the back of my bodices, due in part I think to my right shoulder being 1/2" lower than the left. My body seems to be getting more and more asymetrical by the week. Additionally, my weight varies as much as five pounds from week to week. Being old is not for the weak! 😉
Front
Back
Today I am starting the Whole 30 program. I am generally having extreme joint pain, bloating, insomnia, intestinal disturbances, and a few other fun issues. I have been trying to find a way to solve the joint pain, and get off all the large doses of acetaminophen. I dislike taken medications very much, but I do have to function. I'm hoping that as my research indicates, a change in my food choices will help with the arthritis pain. Whole 30 is an elimanation diet, and at the end of 30 days, you start adding back foods that were eliminated and paying very close attention to how specific foods effect your personal physiology.As time goes along, I'm still trying to get some sewing done. I have started tracing the Love Notions Metra Blazer with the hopes of some nicer looking warmish "sweat jackets" for winter. We'll see how it goes.
The first one will be out of a burgundy cotton sweatshirt fleece purchased from Pico Textiles on February 6th, 2023. I'm going to do the shawl collar as I like the look a bit better, and it will look more as a jacket than a sweatshirt when I'm doing my Turbo Tax video calls. People only see the top of my body, so it's just how it looks on video. I'm working starting in December this year, and the predictions are for a very cold winter, and so I'm expecting to have several months of cold weather before it gets to shirt sleeves weather.
Wish me luck!
