which of these things is not like the other?

Leticia has started commercial patterns and for our first pattern we made PJ pants. I use this pattern for the first commercial pattern my students tackle as it only has two pattern pieces. The alterations are also fairly easy .

We altered the pattern a little bit and made a muslin. She wore that around her house once or twice to get an idea of how else she wanted to change it. We then altered the pattern again tp suit her and made another muslin. This time it was perfect so she then made the pants out of a fabric she chose.

I love this fabric. I love the happy dancing skeletons and all the wonderful flowers.

Here they are on my beautiful , lovely sewing table.



I also love that we added pockets to the pants, which do not come with the pattern. We just drew ourselves a little pattern piece right there as we were going along.

For our next pattern project, Leticia got to go pick out her own pattern. As she is a part time nurse in school she wanted to make her own scrub tops

She chose this one. Over all the pattern is pretty good so far. We are about halfway through the muslin. This pattern has a lot more pieces to it- front back, 2 pocket pieces and a neck piece. The pattern instructions could have a whole lot more clarity in them but I just write in pencil all over the pattern as we go along. When she makes this on her own I will have filled in those gaps for her :)
Now here is where we had a bit of a giggle. Look at the pattern front at drawing of the gal wearing the scrub top. She has super long barbie legs. This gal does not eat breakfast, has birthed no babies and never eats dessert.
Now when we open up this pattern, look at what we see on the inside! Do they look like the gal on the cover?

No! They do not! They look very different from the gal on the cover!

You can see on the far right one, I drew in what Leticia and I kinda look like. (Less belly for both of us and in my case, less behind.)

Really what happened here is that the pattern is offered in two multi sized packets- XS- Xl and XXL-6X. As the sewing instructions are the same for all sizes, both packets just have one set of instructions. This is a how to alter the armseye for different sized arms. These drawings are really for the larger sizes. But even the larger sized packet features miss-never-eats-a-muffin: same drawing that is on the cover of the small sizes.

We just thought it was funny how differently the pattern was portrayed outside and then inside.

I guess if they had the other larger size gals drawings on the cover, then no one would buy the pattern. We all try to buy clothing that we think might flatter us in some way. But no pattern is this world is gonna make a gal go from what is drawn on the inside of the pattern to what is on the outside. When they do, put me down for 2!