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small bust adjustment on halter top how?
ladylola Intermediate QC CANADA Member since 2/10/04 Posts: 246	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/6/05 10:45 AM I want to make this top Simplicity 4998 According to previous reviews, the bust is quite large so I think I'll probably need to adjust for a small bust. I have looked in "Fast Fit" but it emphasize on princess seams. Other references didn't help much either. Any suggestions?
LisaLS Intermediate Member since 2/4/04 Posts: 185	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/6/05 11:37 AM I made a small bust adjustment to that pattern. What I did was cut up through the center of the dart, then angle off to the armhole. Don't completely cut the pattern. You want to leave a sliver of paper together at the armhole. Then I overlapped the two sides at the bust point by about a half inch (I'm not even an A cup), pivoting it at the point that's still attached, and taped them together. Redraw the dart (it will be smaller, but there'll still be a dart there) and test it out in muslin to make sure it did what you wanted it to do. If that's not clear, when I get home, I can take a picture of my pattern to show you what I did. -- Edited on 7/6/05 12:48 PM --
esmer Intermediate TX USA Member since 3/10/05 Posts: 32	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/6/05 12:23 PM Dear Ladylola, Chech out the Singer Sewing Reference Library books at your local library. Take a look at singer book The Perfect Fit on page 78 and the alteration is not done on a princess seam. It teaches you step by step in picture on how to alter a pattern for small bust. If you can also look at the book Fit for Real People by Pati Palmer&Marta Alto they have a chapter just for the bust starting on page 140. But I also learned alot from Chapter 6 Special Sizes on laurel they had to reduce the pattern on the bust page 38 and they teach this step by step lots of picture. Hopes this help some.
ladylola Intermediate QC CANADA Member since 2/10/04 Posts: 246	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/6/05 9:36 PM Thank you both for your answers. evlcuddlz, good explanation, thank you so much. I think I understand but a picture wouldn't hurt. If you have time... Thanks again. esmer, thank you for your references. Unfortunately, I live in a French province and there's not a lot of books in English in the libraries. I might be able to find the Singer book but Fit For Real People is not avialable for sure. I definately have to buy it though, I read so many good reviews about. I know it's stupid but I find the cover so ugly, that's what kept me from buying it before!!
kirianth Advanced Beginner WA USA Member since 2/16/03 Posts: 211	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/6/05 11:13 PM evlcuddlz ~ I would appreciate a picture too! The only other way I know to reduce a dart is to smush it out completely, which flattens out a bust even more. I wish fitting books would actually spell out a small bust adjustment in pictures more often, instead of just saying "do the reverse of an FBA".
gtan Intermediate AUSTRALIA Member since 1/4/04 Posts: 119	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/7/05 3:42 AM HI, I also need to adjust for a small bust. There was a threads fitting article on small bust adjustments, I am not sure which issue but I think it was within the last year. Let us know how you get on, even if I never sew this one I have seen a few patterns recently with this sort of seaming. Geirgue
LisaLS Intermediate Member since 2/4/04 Posts: 185	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/7/05 9:00 AM Will post a pic tonight!
LisaLS Intermediate Member since 2/4/04 Posts: 185	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/7/05 7:26 PM Here is the pic. I highlighted the area I overlapped, because it's hard to see in the picture. At the dart point, it's overlapped 3/8" and I have smaller than an A cup.
ladylola Intermediate QC CANADA Member since 2/10/04 Posts: 246	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/8/05 5:53 AM Thank you so much evlcuddlz! That helps a lot! I'll definately make a muslin first.
sew_swell Beginner Member since 6/12/05 Posts: 92	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/8/05 3:27 PM evlcuddlz, this may be a dumb question, but did you overlap 3/8" total, or fold 3/8" so that the total adjustment was 3/4"? Thanks.

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