The Bessie top provides bust shaping through a dart in the side seam. For the best fit, it is important to make sure the bust dart is pointing toward your bust apex. This is actually a quite normal adjustment for me. My bust apex tends to be a full 1" (2.5cm) above the "standard" bust apex ...
How to Lengthen or Shorten Bessie Top
In this blog post, I will cover simple steps on how to lengthen or shorten the Bessie top. The top was drafted for a 5'10" (175 cm) tall woman and chances are it may be too long on you. Don't worry, lengthening or shortening a pattern is easy! You will need: Pattern pieces that need to be ...
Grading Between Sizes – Bessie Top
It is very rare when a sewing pattern will fit you right out of the envelope. The patterns are drafted with "standard" measurements in mind. But chances that someone actually falls right into those standard measurements are very little. The Bessie top is drafted with quite a bit of ease through the ...
New Pattern – Bessie Top
It is finally here! I wish I could say I am finally ready to release this pattern into the wild, but no. I am not ready. The pattern, however, is ready to venture out into the sewing community. I can keep hanging onto it, trying to make it perfect and second-guessing myself, but it is time to let it ...
Tester Call – Closed
I have been thinking about trying my hand at my own patterns for a while. I always had ideas in my head of what I want to wear, and that was one of the reasons I came back to sewing after finishing university. I started drafting patterns for myself a few years ago and I loved being able to sew ...
