The 6th and the never ending quest

Metscan tagged me to post the sixth photo I posted on this blog.  When I started looking for this sixth photo, I was struck by two things.  First, the process of fitting seems to be a never ending quest; the body changes, the quest goes on.  Secondly I was surprised that it had been 5 years since those first posts.  Despite all the absences and changes in this blog over the years, I am still here.  I was also surprised to see that this post is my 490th post.  At a time when I feel like I haven't stuck to much, it seems that I have stuck to blogging.

In March 2005 and I was sewing casual clothes to take on a cruise on the upper part of the Amazon.  It was a small boat and I would wear trekking clothes during the day, but I needed a small collection of clothes for the evening, clothes that could see me through the casual and the more formal evenings on a two week trip with a very tight total weight limit for luggage (checked and carry-on combined).

 It is not a photo of great beauty;  very few of my photos were back then.

I was making a pair of pants and working on fitting issues. 

The beige pattern on top is a pair of pants that I had cut the previous September after taking a course with Sandra Betzina.  The pattern below it (in white) is for a pair of pull-on one-seam pants which I wanted to make up in a blue knit for the cruise.   I had used the white pattern the previous summer several times.  This is relevant because the patterns that fit me then, are the ones that are closest to fitting me now.

I posted the photo because of what I was learning about fit.  Notice the angle of the waistline on the beige pattern.  The crotch depth is much shorter at the center front than it is at the center back, as opposed to my previous pattern, where front and back were the same.    I have learned that this is a quite necessary alteration, and it is included in the skirt I am making now and my new pants draft.  

The blue linen pair, which were the next pair after the ones I am working on in that photo can be worn now, although they needed minor alterations.  I am a little thicker through the waist, and smaller through the hips, than I was then.  I have also learned that the waistline on all the patterns fitted at those early Sandra Betzina seminars actually extend an inch or two above my anatomic waist, although that may indeed have been my smallest point at the time. It does make me wonder because I certainly don't remember what I was thinking.

And now on to the second part of this little game:  I get to tag ten blogs and ask them to post their sixth photo and tell us why they chose it.

K-Line

Bad Mom, Good Mom

Couture et Tricot

Materfamilias

La Belette Rouge

Life in LaLaLumay Land

3 Sleeves to the Wind

Une Femme d'un Certain Age

Fiber Arts Afloat

Sew West

Have fun.