Simplicity 1696
Well hello out there! I've been spending quite a bit of time in my sewing room since retiring but clearly not spending any time blogging about it. I need to remedy that. So I'll jump right in with the project I finished yesterday - Simplicity 1696 . This is one of Simplicity's "Perfect Fit" patterns. They give you 1" side seams in order to make appropriate adjustments. I feel that this pattern fit me straight out of the gate and other than the length I made no alterations. As with all big 4 patterns I sew one size down from what my measurements call for. They have you take a back crotch length measurement to determine if you are a regular or curvy fit. That doesn't take into account how tall you are, so even though mine showed me as a curvy fit I made the regular. I think that was the right choice. The instructions were straight forward and easy enough to follow. I wasn't sure which side of the waistband was to be interfaced and ended