soooo, i made a sample dress and sent it to the manufacturer to reproduce.
it did not come back the same way.
first of all, the shoulders were the width of my dress, designed to fit me, a 6/8. the rest of it came back as a 4/6. this is very confusing and hard to rectify.
i'm having my mom over, she's an experienced seamstress in our long line of seamstresses (she is III, i am IV) - i'm hoping she can tell me why the arms are pudging forward. she can tell me how the manufacturer interpreted my instructions incorrectly and possibly put me back on track.
meanwhile there is the discovery by me that i need make at least two sizes with artwork that matches in the same way on both sizes. this costs even more.
a few weeks ago i realized the dress needs a slip, or liner. i sent the manufacturer a perfect slip. i've been wearing it for years. they made it identically. perfect. problem is, when the small dress (minus wide shoulders and pudging arm holes) is made, the slip will also have to have a shallower scoop, naturally.
i'm suddenly feeling the need for math. i'm going to use Illustrator instead and size by percentages? percentages are universal, right?
or i'll go find two already-sized patterns, make the dresses, then send them for identical reproduction. since i made my own pattern, there could be a flaw and a need for professionalism i don't have.
otherwise, made a new beautiful design today to go on a dress. i have three so far, now. two to go for my awesomely-priced massively-multiplicated order.
i haven't even applied for my business license yet.
long-winded projects are hard for me. i'm myopic and deficient in attention span.
this is a monumentally long project. i think of my friends and how many years they put into each movie. i've long lusted for that kind of endless focus...i gotta have it now though, whether i already have it or not.
it must be!
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