The cut of womens cloths Enlarging Patterns

[eggies_red_dres]

open the book, take some measurements. 3 mm=1 inch in the scale for the Robe a l'anglaise.

Take some notes, format it like the drafting instructions for the La Couturire pair of stays. Use the engineers scale to make a small mockup and realize that it looks completely skewed

Comments

[anielmom]

Hmmm, yes. I'm hoping my new toy (overhead projector) will make those enlarging tasks much easier.
Glad you were able to get it worked out!

[eggies_red_dres]

Enlarging them to their proper size isn't the toughest part. It's getting them to *your* size that requires some fiddly bits of math.

I will say that an outright projection would be much easier for the first stage, since as the pattern gets larger, the margin of error is smaller. I'm actually drafting up *both* phases at once, one a small scale of the proper measurements for the garment, and one full size in my own measurements.

Either way, it's just boring. LOL

[virginiadear]

I'm in awe.

And *very* keen to see this! Are you going to share images as this project progresses, or must we be patient until it's completed?

[eggies_red_dres]

Hee hee. Illustrator is the opposite of an intuitive program, so it was quite a bit of work just figuring it out. I have a pattern now that is to one of the attendants custom measures and no idea how to get it out of the computer LOL. I still have some tutorials to go through apparently.

I could post a few snaps of what I'm working on so far. I'll have to do some sort of write up for how to calculate your final drafted measures in some sort of excel file.

[virginiadear]

I've worked some (not a lot) with Illustrator but have no idea what an intuitive program is, so I've no basis for comparison. :^(

Still *very* keen to see this! Whenever you choose to share! :^)

[corsetrasewing]

Proportional dividers are your friends for enlarging scale patterns by hand, get some!
Also scanners and photo copiers can skew things ever so slightly, I have learned

[eggies_red_dres]

I just about choked when I found out how expensive this (clearly) precision tool is. My husband has a few machining tools lurking in a disused welding toolbox, and I'm pretty sure he *doesn't* have one of these. Micron calipers I got, but I can't really figure out how to use this for any scaling purposes.

The photo I took was clearly skewed towards the edge of the image. I figured that the margin of error wasn't enough to stop me from understanding the general shape of the pattern. I'm sure it'll need all manner of tweaking once it's cut out anyway. At least this time my bodice pattern wasn't traced directly from my stays pattern. I get no costumer points for that one.

[corsetrasewing]

i paid like $80 for mine. Micro Mark has them for $60
besides looking on ebay, look at antique stores, which is where some of our drafting tools came from.