Hi there! Well today I used my own measurements of Bust 128cm and Hips 130cm and re-drew or re-drafted the basic blouse pattern er twice for the front bodice piece. Once with the regular tape measure and the leaflet short-sleeved blouse. This didn't work.
Then I re-drafted the XL - XXL basic blouse using the tape measure that goes with that kit. The pattern came out pretty close! I had to subtract about 1.5 inches or approx. 3.81 cm from the platen edge or the doubled fabric straight piece that the buttons are sewn on edge of the front. I had to add about 1/2 inch or about 1.27 cm to the under the arm body side of the pattern. I had to sort of redraw the shoulder and arm circle part of the pattern. Another thing I did was to make a dart from the middle of the shoulder straight down about 4 inches or approx. 10 cm and about 1.5 inches or so or approx. 3.81cm in width tapering to nothing. I did an arm circle dart as that works better for me than the side dart and I took out the same amount of paper/fabric for that as the original which was about 3 inches or 8cm at the widest part tapering down to zero.
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