In a message dated 2/6/2007 3:04:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anybody got a sense of how these patterns run now? ***************** Isn't the standard 3" of ease? Things fit a little tighter now than they did a decade ago. When I was taught to pattern, I learned that if you made things to measurements, they were too tight to even close sometimes. A really fitted garment, like a cuirass bustle bodice for instance, might have like 1" ease. I hate commercial patterns that omit the sewing lines. I usually go in a draw them on the pattern, which greatly helps with altering the paper pattern [duh!] but it also makes for finding out what the measurements REALLY are. But remember.... the paper pattern is just one stage, and whatever is made up will have to be fitted anyway, so don't get too bent out of shape [no pun intended] about the minute accuracy of the pattern pieces. Just make sure they are the right shape and on the right grain when cutting. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
