Measuring Yourself: A Necessary Evil

Please tell me that I’m not the only knitter who hates taking her measurements?  I find it so depressing.  I also hate those little perfect-hourglass stick-figure illustrations they always use to show you where to take your measurements.  Talk about a hit to the self esteem.  This is why I’m in love with today’s Knitting Daily post about taking your measurements where they use photos of a curvy woman for illustration.  Finally!  A measuring demo that makes sense for my body!  I love that they include a section on taking your belly measurement.  No one ever does that and I feel bad because my belly is pretty ample and I need to take it into account when measuring myself for a sweater.  Again, no guilt here – they’re just like, “Hey!  Here’s how to take your belly measurement!  Adjust your waist decreasing accordingly…”  I like it.