So *that's* how you do it, Bjarne! :-> I am now not only in awe of your embroidery and costuming skills, but your computer-pattern-tweaking, too! Joannah.
--- "Bjarne og Leif Drews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Elizabeth, I know it is hard for you when you cant drape on a dress stand. But why dont you do like this: It requires that you have the patterns books off cause, a computer and a drawingprogram like for instance Corel Draw. You can scan in the pattern you want, open it in your drawing program. Meassure a point of yourself where you want the pattern to be the same meassure. Take for instance your bodice side meassure. Find the bodice side meassure in the book. You then have that your own bodice side is, say (30cm.) The meassure of the pattern side bodice is ( 2,8cm) Now you devide 30 with 2,8 cm wich is 10,714 This means that you have to enlarge your pattern 1071,4 % In the drawing programme there is a tab where you can resamble your pattern. Place in 1071,4 % and it will enlarge your pattern in the meassures you want. My drawing program also can print out the whole pattern in A4 papers. It can tile the big picture and print out all the pattern parts. This gives you an excakt print of the book pattern. I often use this method when i make new corsets. You have to work on this original pattern to fit your own body off cause, but that you also have to do with finished cut out patterns. I know that the skirts are huge to print out, but you could use it to get the right bodice construktion. Bjarne _____________________________________________________________ Sluggy.Net: The Sluggy Freelance Community! _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
