I made the Merchant & Mills Quinn Trousers a few weeks back. First time with an M&M pattern. Used a lovely bottom weight cotton herringbone with just a titch of lycra I found from an Etsy shop. My measurements put me in a suggested size 12.
Now I can already hear you say it as I said it myself but dismissed it (read: I know this is my own fault), I should have made a muslin. I should have measured the pattern pieces. I should have at least trusted the finished measurement chart over the size chart (but really, who puts 4”+ ease for a waist on tailored trousers?! I was doubtful). But I lived dangerously and reaped the “reward” for reckless behavior! Trust the finished measurement chart-there really is 4”+ ease in the waist alone.
Pattern drafting=superb. Perfect mirrored welts. Perfect buttonholes. Even the back tab came out SO.WELL 😩 I adore these trousers. But they fall off of me 😢 So back to tracing off a size down (yes, the finished measurement chart says the next smaller size is 4” different! I still doubt so I will measure the actual pieces this time) and testing with not-lovely fabric, in shorts length JUST.IN.CASE.
Wish me luck!
