Hi all. Well, I started battling the grid method last night. I started
by tracing the pieces onto the 1/4" graph paper and I felt like
everything was going great... and I knew exactly how to dive into the
next step, which is redrawing the unscaled pieces using the 1" grid
cutting board. Here's where I tripped... the pieces are in 1/8" scale.
Two pieces provided however are in 1/4. I began to question how I am
supposed to do the enlarging from that scale and maybe I was just
overtired but nothing was making anymore sense to me so I stopped for
the night. My goal today is to see about finding somewhere that has a
projector, maybe the library, or even finding a cheap one I could pick
up at the office supply store.
Either way, I mean no matter how I enlarge them it is true, I already
knew that doing mock-ups from muslin will be my first chore before I
start planning how much material to get from a finished pattern set.
Luckily, hopefully, I have time for this trial and error period. I will
be wearing the full period undergarments under the dress, nor do I mind
the period-correct limited range of motion that was designed into the
clothing. It's probably the shoulders and height I'll have to adjust
since while I'm not tall, 150 years ago I would be considered so, and
my arms tend to be a tad unproportionately longer than they probably
should be, even for today. Right now I'm worried just about getting
full size patterns.
Take care:)
Justine.
-----Original Message-----
From: Maggie <[email protected]>
To: Historical Costume <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Aug 25, 2009 11:43 pm
Subject: Re: [h-cost] HELP!
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
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On
Behalf
Of Kimiko Small [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:28 PM
To: Historical Costume
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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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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