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Sewing dilemma! Already cut and sewn but too small! Simplicity 2246 shirtdress
LDT2011 Advanced Beginner UNITED KINGDOM Member since 11/18/11 Posts: 451	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 6/12/12 11:17 AM I'm sewing view 'A' of this pattern http://sewing.patternreview.com/patterns/46301 Now I did a tissue fitting and it was fine cut a 14. Now I've sewn up sides and shoulders added the placket. Tried it on and uh-oh....it fits everywhere except my hips. What do I do? Can I put a gore in the back perhaps? Take it up so it becomes a shirt? Its such nice fabric I'd hate to waste it. ------ 'The purpose of most fashion is to be ostentatiously non-functional.'
mastdenman   Intermediate CA USA Member since 1/12/04 Posts: 5843	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 6/12/12 11:24 AM How much more room do you need and how many seams do you have? Can you resew the seams from 5/8th's inch to 1/4 inch? You could get an extra inch in circumference that way. ------ Marilyn January 2009 to January 2010 81 yards out and 71yards in January 2010 to the present 106.7 yards out and 146.5 yards in. January 2011 to the present: 47 yards out and 69 yards in.
LDT2011 Advanced Beginner UNITED KINGDOM Member since 11/18/11 Posts: 451	Login to reply to this post In reply to mastdenman << Like this post Date: 6/12/12 11:36 AM Quote: mastdenman How much more room do you need and how many seams do you have? Can you resew the seams from 5/8th's inch to 1/4 inch? You could get an extra inch in circumference that way. An extra inch will make it 'fit' but it will be very snug (danger of buttons popping when I sit etc.) ------ 'The purpose of most fashion is to be ostentatiously non-functional.'
sarah in nyc Advanced NY USA Member since 1/8/05 Posts: 1593	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 6/12/12 2:34 PM You can add two gores, one at each side seam. ------ sarah in nyc www.sewnewyork.blogspot.com
jadamo00 Advanced NY USA Member since 3/13/06 Posts: 1234	Login to reply to this post In reply to sarah in nyc << Like this post Date: 6/12/12 2:37 PM Two gores make this a super "design opportunity" -- If you make the two gores in a dark, contrasting fabric: it has a VERY slimming effect because your sides will tend to disappear. Can you post a picture of the dress as it is so far? j.
wendyrb   Advanced CA Member since 12/30/11 Posts: 1271	Login to reply to this post In reply to LDT2011 << Like this post Date: 6/12/12 3:05 PM Letting it out the extra inch is a good start. Is the collar on already? If not you can increase the front placket width and gain another 1/2 inch. Instead of it being say 1 1/4 inch make it 1 3/4 inch. For button placement, overlap your center front just 1 1/4. Do the extension depending on the garment construction- a separate pieced placket or a continued front that bends back. You'd need enough fabric to add on and have to decrease the collar seams to fit the longer front into it. If you have even more fabric, this might help you- adding an unpressed box pleat at the center back neck, maybe 2 inches wide for the pleat depth. Add 1 inch on either side to form the pleat bend back going to the center back. Your total cut insertion would be 4 inches, plus the tiniest seam allowance. Once folded, the pleat is 2 inches and that's your gain in movement. Hope this isn't confusing; make a paper one if you're not clear. You'd have to slit the center back open. Take the narrowest, serger if you have one, seam. Then you won't reduce too much what you're gaining from all your efforts. I'd press the join seam at the center back, but let the underlay of the pleat be unpressed. Scrunched in with the belt it should look alright and you might want to tack the pleat at the waist. Technically, you'd be taking fit from the pleat, not ideal, but since it's a casual dress, I say so what. Better to rescue your dress and enjoy it. ------ Sometimes she didn't always follow the recipe. Pfonzie- my honey Pfaff Creative Performance, Bernina 930 and 830, Evolution serger.
kkkkaty   Intermediate UT USA Member since 12/7/05 Posts: 2226	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 6/12/12 6:01 PM Perhaps you could do a subtle "lace insertion", if that's a style you are comfortable with? usually that is done on top of the fabric, but you could possible cut the fabric (on the straight grain) and add the lace with small seams (hopefully gaining more than you lose). Fagotting might also gain you some ease? lace insertion tutorial fagotting -- Edited on 6/12/12 6:01 PM -- ------ Viking Lily 545 Viking Ruby Bernina Activa 210 Brother 1034d
Fictionfan   Advanced VT USA Member since 5/19/06 Posts: 1168	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 6/12/12 6:34 PM I'd consider godets rather than gores. They are a little trickier to sew, but you could even add several if you want a fuller skirt. ------ Fictionfan
LDT2011 Advanced Beginner UNITED KINGDOM Member since 11/18/11 Posts: 451	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 6/13/12 7:52 AM This is the dress so far. I like the thought of doing godets in the side seams. I was going to use it to dance in so more room and movement would be good. ------ 'The purpose of most fashion is to be ostentatiously non-functional.'
n45 Intermediate MD USA Member since 6/26/03 Posts: 241	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 6/13/12 10:14 AM Gores or Godets look like a great option.

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