Lest any of you were tempted to think that sewing is glamorous...

I'm in the middle of making a shirt from the bodice of the Ceylon dress from Colette Patterns (go look!  Isn't it awesome?).  I also just finished taking a fitting class from Craftsy, along with a bunch of other sewists from Seattle-ish, which has been great fun.

I figured since I took the class, I should apply what I learned and fit the bodice properly for once.  I made a muslin (a practice copy) with NO alterations and tried that puppy on, and what do you know?  Some of the alterations I typically make would have made this worse.  The waist line and bust points were exactly where they should have been.  But, and this is a very big but, this shirt is a button-down, and it wouldn't close.  BOO.  Enter hack-and-slash:  cut it apart where it doesn't fit and pin in extra fabric till it does.  Behold!

Now, this looks like a horrible (Wonder Woman-y) mess, and it is, but it's a horrible Wonder Womany mess that FITS.  Yay!  On to real fabric later this week.  Suggestions?  I still haven't decided what to make this out of...