So Far, No Sociopaths
Yesterday I got all the pieces of the skirt cut out and mostly marked, and I think I might have an idea why the pattern was so difficult for me. Looking at the layout chart. there are 8 identical rectangular strips, and 8 triangular godets, one between each strip. For reasons known only to the pattern manufacturers, in spite of being absolutely identical and having exactly identical notches, they have chosen to mark them as front and back and side pieces, and without knowing that it doesn't matter in the slightest, I was probably driven half mad trying to keep my backs and fronts separate from my sides. There is an optional drawstring, which would make "front" a bit important, but as I didn't include it the first time, it wouldn't have mattered in the slightest. It's just this: over and over and over and over. I'm not even using the pattern instructions at this point. For future pattern notes, this gets to be a very boring skirt. Since I ...