Muslin done and Patterns ordered

Well I have been working on my Marfy muslin in bits and pieces this week.  Basically, as a recap, since I started this long ago,  in August, so I could decide what size patterns to order from the fall Marfy catalog then I got sidetracked.

I originally thought I needed a 44 or 46 and I traced off a 44 pattern.  That is where I stopped.    I was partially correct in that I am going to order a 44 for most patterns based on the upper bodice.  I am currently between a 44 and a 42 in that area and must taper out at the bust and below.  I must also taper out at the shoulders, but if I make a bigger size I have way too much fabric in the upper chest and the alterations are more difficult.

I have been through a few tracings here (I am working with a blouse
pattern from the fall issue, and so far the 44 seems to be a little
easier to work with.  It may be possible that, on a princess seamed
garment where the princess seams go down from the shoulder I might want
to work with a 42; that muslin example worked pretty well, but I think
for now and future work I can work from the 44 pretty easiliy. 

Technically I am smaller than a 42  in the right upper bust and a 44 on the left, with a corresponding difference in sizes in the back.  But the 44 seems easy enough to work from.  I suppose I am getting more and more accustomed to the fact that no pattern is going to fit all of me at any size I may be or dream of being so I just pick a size and hope for the best.  Most of the Marfy patterns are being ordered in a 44, but a pattern that has a more critical detail in the right shoulder area is being ordered in a size 42.  I have done this king of thing before, in bottoms as well.  In skirts and pants I have my average pattern size, which is actually the averaging of the 4 different sizes the four quadrants of my body happens to be.  Sometimes I order the average, sometimes I order the size to fit the most difficult part, and I have been known, on occasion to order two of certain patterns, just to make life easier.  Thank goodness for half-price sales for the US big 4 pattern companies, and multi-size patterns.  This particular problem hasn’t come up for Marfy yet.

So confidence boosted, I placed my Marfy pattern order.  There are only 4 patterns from the spring book, two are blouses.  I also ordered several patterns from the fall issue.