Muslin for spring pallette # 4

So, I promised you pictures of the horrific, but also cute bug print. Here it is!



And this is what I did with it--



Ya, I know it doesn't fit. It looks better with a belt, though!



I made a few adjustments that may have helped since I took this picture over the weekend.---I partically closed those pleats in the front, and I added some pintucks in the shoulders. I'll post another picture of these adjustments after I hem.

I think that this pattern shows that I have officially gone down to a 36 in Burda. Which would be good news, except that I have to print/tape/cut everything out again that I've ever made! Also, this pattern makes it clear that I probably should do petite adjustments on most bodices I make as well as FBAs. Here, I took in the shoulders by an inch already before I took these pictures, and after these pictures, the pintucks I added account for another 6/8ths of an inch, and I took the waist seam up by a quarter inch too...and its still about and inch and a half too long in the torso. I should have known this would be an issue....I totally had a preview of my future fitting troubles when I had a fellow sewing friend over at my house to work on a project together, and she picked up poor Veronica, and ran around the house with her, yelling "huge b$*#s! short torso!"

*sigh* The things I deal with to have sewing friends.

All in all, I think this dress is kinda cute. DBF, on the other hand, told me that the only thing good about it is its uniqueness...(his way of putting it is that it's so weird that it doesn't even look like it came from a trampy vintage store full of ugly stuff.) Whatever. I guess it will get used for gardening, since it already has stains and bugs on it! :)