There’ve been a few questions lately, and I want to see how it works to answer them in a separate post:

Claire S asked regarding my new ironing surface,  That ironing suface would be really useful – how big is it ?

Hi Claire,  It is 21″x58″ and would accommodate an ironing board up to 18″ wide.  They had a cutting mat that would fit it, too, but 21″ isn’t wide enough for a garment sewer’s cutting needs, IMO.

Mary asked about my ruched knit top, How did you stitch this down on your shirt? Flat, or in the round? How did you connect the two ends? Did you finish neckline in some way, or reinforce it? Did you use invisible thread?

Hi Mary, First I bound the neckline of my top in my usual way–a single cross-grain thickness sewn on in the round, right sides together, then turned in stitched in the ditch and trimmed off.  I stitched the ruching, using matching thread, in the round with a narrow zig-zag stitch so that it would stretch.  As far as the ends, I simply butted them together at the back neckline.  The whole treatment is very “fluffy-looking” and no one would ever notice that I had not joined the ends.

Patricia asked Is there a way to follow your blog?

Hi Patricia, I use WordPress, so I don’t have Blogspot’s Following option.  If you use a feed reader like Bloglines or Google Reader, you can subscribe to my feed at http://rustybobbin.com/blog/?feed=rss2

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When I bought the flexible curve last Thursday, I ran right home and measured and made a tracing of the curve.  It really seemed that the waistline was too high, but I went ahead with a muslin before I went back on Saturday.

It was definitely too high and there were some other “issues” like the whole crotch area being too baggy.

When I had some time to settle down from Expo, I donned some black leggings and proceeded to measure again.  This one–at right–looks much better, though I don’t think my hip line is exactly right because the yarn I was using for a marker kept trying to climb to a smaller place!

We learned from Lorraine Henry that your hip is where your hip joint is, not necessarily at the largest place.  That’s contrary to everything I’ve every heard before, but I’m planning to give it a try–I’ve not had great success with the other rule.  Lorraine’s way puts my hip line at 6.5 or 7 inches depending on where my yarn was at the time I measured.

My crotch depth is 10.25″.  I could measure to the floor from my hip mark and get 33″ all the way around, which confirms what I already knew:  There’s a lot going on below my hip line!  LOL!

I’m now working on altering another pattern and  I hope to get to a muslin sewn up this weekend.  I’m using Ottobre’s basic womens’ pants from the 2/2006 issue, which may be trouble as they do not mark the hip on the pattern.  I calculated their crotch depth to be 11 inches by subtracting their posted inseam from the sideseam length.  I’m hoping their hip depth is 8 inches.

Saturday is supposed to be beautiful here, but Sunday looks like a good day for muslins!  Y’all have a nice weekend!

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