Just Sew It

I finished sewing my dd’s halloween costume and she really likes it.

This costume was sewn from Simplicity 9919 and I have to say that it was a very poorly drafted pattern. For starters, the pattern runs very large. I had to cut out a size 4 and I still had to take in quite a bit on the side seams on the top. The waist is poorly designed. They have you sew on the yoke after you sew the side seams of the skirt. Not a good idea if you have to alter the yoke and skirt. Then once the yoke is sewed on they have you attach the interfaced yoke and then gather the back part of the waistband and add in an elastic. This is very goofy. I did not put the elastic in. As a result, it is a little tight slipping the skirt on. But I just cannot see how the elastic application could work. A step was left out for the construction of the waist.

Simplicity should be ashamed of themselves. What every happened to quality control? Did this pattern get drafted on a Friday afternoon?

If you can find a mermaid costume from another pattern company, do it.