I could be wrong, but I would try doubling the 1/8th ones ;i.e. if one square = 1" in 1/4 scale, then 2x2 squares of the 1/8 = 1"
Kate Pinner -----Original Message----- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of ladybeanofbun...@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:54 PM To: h-cost...@indra.com Subject: Re: [h-cost] HELP! 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 <maggi...@gmail.com> To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> 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 ~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 Available at your favorite online bookseller See our gallery at http://www.zazzle.com/popinjaypress On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Rickard, Patty <ricka...@muc.edu> 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: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf > Of Kimiko Small [sstormwa...@yahoo.com] > 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 > "Be the change you want to see in the world." ~ Ghandi > > Coming soon: The Tudor Lady's Wardrobe > > http://www.margospatterns.com/ > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Maggie <maggi...@gmail.com> > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
