Sewing--fitted shell

I've been taking the Fitted Shell series class at Stitch Lab the last few weeks. It's been pretty cool. I've learned a lot about how to lengthen, shorten and widen a pattern. Tomorrow I'll have an unwearable dress to my exact measurements! I can then take those measurements and tweak existing patterns, or use the dreaded math to make my own.

I have a pretty lax set of guidelines about transferring markings from the pattern. Today when I was doing my sewing homework, I realized I need to pay more attention to those details. Makes a difference, and really, it's not that hard! I'm just lazy about it.

I think I have darts down...there were 16 on this dress. More accurate pattern markings definitely help! Hopefully it's all going to work out anyway.