Y’all did know that Burda Style has released its first true plus-size pattern, yes?
There are a lot of people on the site begging Burda to release it in smaller sizes. Because, wah, they have so few from which to choose.
Okay, that was petty. But, really, now they know how fat women feel about the plethora of cute patterns that don’t come in OUR sizes.
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Since we fat home sewists have had ample opportunities to improve our skills by scaling patterns up, it’s only fair to provide non-fat home sewists the chance to learn to scale down. I love that dress, too!
I like that pattern too, but would make it as a top, not a dress (I don’t do dresses, at all). It’s great to see it in a size that would actually fit me without doing a lot of alterations. Yay for Burda! Now, let’s see them come up with some more sute patterns in that size range, please!
cute, not sute, darn typos
oooh
cuuuute
I’d probably make it as a top too but I might do a dress
Ooh, that’s super cute. One of these days I’ll get around to learning how to sew.
Oooh, a shapeless tent, hold me back. Seriously Burda, lets try something fitted next? I must be the only person who thinks that the 50’s and 60’s had the most sexless and unappealing clothing ever, because I keep seeing it every frickin where.
Thanks for the heads up! I downloaded it, but I’d still have to scale it (65 inch hips FTW), and since I’ve only sewn one thing at all so far, and that was a bag, probably not trying it, yet. ;D
Hah, it’s pretty obvious I’m a sock geek when I see the comment about the tights and I’m like “Huh, those look like these.”
It’s not fitted very well to the model, so it looks shapeless. The 3rd photo makes it really obvious they skipped the bust darts the design needs. Once those are in, it should work much better. I can kind of understand why they skipped ‘em, since using a standard B cup dart for larger women is almost worse than using none at all :-/.
(if the instructions tell the user to put in the *right* bust dart for their body, Burda gets even more bonus points from me)
Ooh, I wonder if my basic sewing 101 skills could make that!
As for being petty, maybe it is but I admit I got aggravted too by the one comment about making it in “normal” sizes because that’s only be fair. Yeah – go to a big mall where you can only shop in maybe 2 clothing stores and then get back to me on fair.
I don’t think you were petty. Petty is saying, “Why on Earth would they name a plus size dress, after the insanely thin singer Shakira?”