Grrr...

I just made the bodice for a dress from Heather Ross' book Weekend Sewing and tried it on my three yr old. I used the pattern for a size 4 which should have been too big on her by miles but instead it was so tight I couldn't get it back off her and I actually had to cut it off through the back of the bodice.  The measurements for the child's chest are true to the pattern she's created but not true to the size of a child that age.  Maybe her models are just really tiny for their age...  In any case I now have to adjust this dress which is essentially a size 2 and I think I will probably only be able to eke it out to a size 3.  When I cut it I just sliced straight through the back of the bodice so I think I will put a false hem on it, sideways if you know what I mean, and add some buttons.  Blurgh - there's a bunch of extra work I wasn't up for.