Simplicity 1783 – A Cynthia Rowley Pattern
I know there’s a lot of Cynthia Fans out there and I’m quickly becoming one! Here’s 1873 Last year I made the top from this pattern, you might remember it as the ‘save all your kisses for me‘ top! A few weeks ago I was looking to make a denim skirt for summer and stumbled across this pattern in my stash and thought this would be perfect. I frivolously chopped my paper pattern!! Shock! Horror!! This is not something I would normally do, but I’m not planning on being a bigger size anytime soon so I thought what the heck! It’s actually about a month or so since I finished this. There’s not a lot to say about the construction except to was fairly straight forward, including the zip fly. I changed the order of construction. Instead of sewing the side seams then attaching the waist band, I completed the front (inc the fly) added the waist band, but not the facing. Then I sewed up the side seams to get the fit spot on. …