Happiness!

I decided to buy a Japanese sewing book on ebay recently, and it's turning out to have been a great decision, mainly because the patterns actually seem to fit with few alterations. Yay!

I am far from busty, so American patterns and I don't always get along. There's a reason I mainly make skirts and pajama pants. Anything fitted on top ends up needing so many alterations that it just ends up a headache. (There's a New Look pattern I've been fighting with for about 2 months now. I finally got the bust to fit only to have everything above that go all wrong.)

Anyways, I traced one of the bodices out of the book, and the muslin fit almost perfectly, so amazing. I'll have to trim a bit off of the center seam, but that's so easy compared to a SBA.

Anyways, if things go well I'll be making a dress from the book this week. I just have to decide between the '70s dress and one of the full-skirted dresses.

(Now I want to buy so many more books. I know what's going on my Christmas wishlist!)