Reply To: Simplicity Pattern 2172

[the_professors_assistantKeymaster]

The coat for this pattern doesn’t really go over the bust but doing an exact bust alteration isn’t as crucial. It sounds like you’ll be increasing both the bust and the waist and since their pattern size stops at size 22, you might want to consider doing pattern grading instead of pattern alteration. So instead of altering each aspect waist and hip, you’re basically grading up the pattern as a whole and moving it to the next size. We don’t have a tutorial on this but there’s a great article on how to do it here: http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/4368/making-sense-of-pattern-grading/page/all Good luck! This is such a fun costume and I’d love to see a picture when you finish it 😀