No matter how you blow up the one period pattern you have, you're still only
getting the pattern that was made for that one person in their particular
proportions. No matter what you do, you're going to have to do a mock-up,
and pinch and tweak and fiddle till you have a pattern for you.
But I think you knew that :-)
MaggiRos
Maggie Secara
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Rickard, Patty <[email protected]> wrote:
> Even if there's not projector distortion, there's the problem (since
> various parts of the body do not increase in size at the same rate between
> sizes) that an enlargement to fit the bust, for example, may make the
> armscye, for example, too large, too small, or in the wrong place. It's a
> place to start, though.
> Patty
>
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Kimiko Small [[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:28 PM
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> Subject: Re: [h-cost] HELP!
>
> I did that once with a transparency. The only issue is that in some
> overhead projectors, there is a distortion along the edges, so what may be
> accurate in the middle, will end up slightly larger at the edges, so you
> have to keep the image you are drawing in the middle of the field. You can
> also get a book projector at the craft store to transfer an image directly
> from a book, but again, check for distortion along the edge.
>
> If I must, I prefer to grid up directly from a book onto gridded pattern
> paper by hand. But then gridded paper are not all that accurate either but
> decently close. Now I've been draping onto the body instead, but that does
> take some good book or good teacher to help learn.
>
> Kimiko
> Kimiko Small
> http://www.kimiko1.com
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>
>
>
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> From: Maggie <[email protected]>
>
> It's also possible to make a transparency of the pattern page, then put it
> on an "overhead projector" and project it on to paper or a sheet on the
>
>
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