Body Types and Illusions

Right today ladies and gentle men we are going to talk about different body shapes and how to create illusions.

Before we start here is a top tip: Put your arms down by your sides and bend at the elbow see where the smallest part of your waist is from where your elbow lies and this is how you can tell if you are long or short waited.


Anyway the four main body types are:

• Triangle - This means there is not much upstairs but rather hippy.
• Inverted Triangle - Not much downstairs but rather broad shouldered.
• Rectangle - even the way down 
• Hour glass - this is your shoulders and bust being roughly the same size as your hips and your waist being about 10 inches less.

So I am an hourglass a chubby hourglass and yes, you can still be an hour glass even if you are size 16,18 or 20 it's not the size on the inside of your clothes that matters.

So since I am an hourglass I should be wearing.

• V necks since I have a larger bust.
• Capped or just above the wrist sleeves.
• Flared or boot cut trousers and jeans.
• Pencil or Aline skirts but not to long. 

All in all the main goal is to love the skin your in and REMEMBER  you don't wear anything better than a smile itself. So as always keep stitching. 

Sewing Expo

Hi everyone, sorry I haven't posted recently however it has been a very exciting few days. So let me get you up to date.

On Saturday ( 28th March 15) we (we being me and the mother in law) attended a sewing expo in London called;

 The Stitching Sewing & Hobbycrafts Show. 

We learnt so much and probably spent to much however I highly recommend it for all you sewers next year.

As we entered the hall the first stall we saw was a sewing clinic. Now the lady working on it, Thelma was amazing she had so many hand outs on how to make adjustments to patterns and also showed me how to adjust a pattern for a bigger busted lady like myself and her. (So their will be a blog on that for you all later.) She also recommended to books which is pictured below to help you adjust a pattern to whatever issue you may be having with it. Which funny enough the mother in law already owns so of course I am now borrowing! 

 

Next we found the pattern bar the place were I spent so much money however they were half price! Once again lots of lovely helpful handouts.

Next was mostly stalls, selling a range of beautiful items. 

So I purchased:

• Some beautiful pink butterfly embroidery scissors for cutting thread off my garments.
• Bias Binding.
• Cat Buttons.
• An Amaze Brush for removing bobbles, lint and cat hair off of clothes or furniture.
• Bobbins - 12 for £2.50 such a sewing! 
• A Bobbin holder. Which doesn't allow them to move or unravel.

Unfortunately no dress makers dummy so that looks like an internet purchase for me! 

Finally in the afternoon their was a talk (which there will be a blog for) about how to dress and create illusions with your body shape. No I won't go into too much detail in this blog however lets just say I'm loving my body more, and now I know how to dress with be feeling more confident. But please don't be deterred the blog will be for all size women after all I have some junk in my trunk and like to cover it. But after this talk I want to show the gorgeous curves I was given. 

Anyways as always till the next blog... Keep Stitching.