But all that ends tonight.
In some respects I think that's good - most of the plus size clothes I see in the stores are just plain wrong, scaled up garments that don't look good even on tiny people or big, sacky, style-less dresses, pants and tops. Now there are some larger ladies out there in the sewing world whose sense of style I respect highly, and they wouldn't be caught dead in most of what's in the stores. (Clothes like those are probably what start a lot of women sewing in the first place).
But that's why we sew, right? And why if you're following basically straight lines, there's no reason grading down shouldn't work.
Stay tuned on that, because . . .
Other patterns I liked from this issue:
Burda's having another safari moment, but this one strikes me as a bit more interesting than their last 3 or 4 safaris. The two-layer vest definitely has a purpose, but I'm thinking about holding that one off until fall. The dress with the eyelets in the front is whispering sweet nothings to some deep toasty colored linen in my stash.
The other little two-layer vest is cute, but the first thing that caught my eye, I had to say, was that the under-fabric is Liberty. I know that because I have some of that very print.
I'm not sure whether I like the jacket or not. I do - but not in their fabrics. I think that's where the problem is for me. It's a basic shape, with good lines, which works well for me since most of my fabrics are a little less than quiet, shall we say. Lots of style lines tend to get lost in the hectic.
This doesn't want to stay a vest, though - can't you see it lengthened into a trench-styled dress? Yes, I know, Burda has probably done one before - multiple times, no doubt - but it didn't strike me before this issue that I wanted a trench-styled dress, so I'm sure this pattern will give me what I want in the end.
Then again, that's the good thing about Burda. It keeps on the shelf, and this will definitely become a go-to issue when I'm in the mood to sew, but without a particular project in mind.
New black pants for work (using my TNT pattern, which I can knock together in an evening). My old black pants are no longer completely black, and they're too worn to go to the bother of dyeing them black again.
A couple of restyled t-shirts from some really cute XL shirts I picked up at the last half price day at the thrift store. Another quick knit nightie because some day the weather will be warm.
Somewhere along the line, Burda's fit won me over, and I became a tracing convert (I still cut my Big 4 patterns, though). I resisted Jalie for a long time, I think it was just residual distaste for tracing, though their patterns are a breeze compared to Burda, especially the new, economical, let's print twice as many patterns on one piece of paper and see if we can drive them crazy, Burda.