Ordinary Average Girl

Its my version of the Charles de Blois Pourpoint- the 10 piece sleeve really does allow for great range of motion. 

My involvement with this particular pattern came about several years ago when a certain dance Laurel brought a copy of the pattern over to my friend’s house.  On a lark we set about enlarging the pattern (which fit on an 8 1/2 X 11 in piece of typing paper) to fit our stocky fighter husbands.  We ended up measuring our men and then doing a bit of math and running down to the local Kinko’s to have them blow up the pattern on their big blue print copier, or whatever it is.  So-that secret is out!  It really saved a lot of headaches, I suck at transferring and altering patterns as detailed as this one.

I’ll have to post a picture when the thing is done.  I shall be quite proud, I imagine, and relieved!