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Posted by: Sweet Old Thing on January 23, 2009 4:35PM CST Don't trust the sizing you read on the patterns. If you are a size 2 or 4 in the stores, it isn't likely you will go over a size 6 in your pattern. I'm not sure what they use to measure, but I think it's their knuckles. All patterns will give you places to lengthen or shorten, if that's a problem. If your willing to experiment and waste some very precious time, try making the dress in fabric you don't mind destroying. Then you will have a better idea what the numbers really mean for you, personally. The direction of your thickness changes the size. What I mean is this: a person built thick, often, can wear a smaller size than someone of the same measurement that's built wide. The first couple projects can be frustrating until you figure it out.

Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale on January 23, 2009 6:44PM CST That's good advice. I might go buy some muslin to try it out with first. Because it's not very fun to cut out fabric for a size 14.

Posted by: Sweet Old Thing on January 23, 2009 9:26PM CST It even less fun to believe as a size 2 or 4 you would need a size 14.

Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale on January 23, 2009 10:36PM CST I know. Vogue's measurements must be for supermodels. I mean really, who has a 22 inch waist (which is what you need to have to fit into the size four)?

Posted by: Sweet Old Thing on January 24, 2009 9:39AM CST Scarey, isn't it.

Posted by: alertreader on January 24, 2009 10:13AM CST I have a quilt I started when my daughter was a year old, she will be 48 this year and its still not finished. I am the queen of procrastination.

Posted by: Stephanie De Pasquale on January 26, 2009 9:29AM CST That's how I was with my first one. I bought the fabric at the beginning of 2007 and didn't finish it until last summer. It was really small too. Now I fly through projects.