I need help with pattern sizing quickly

I need help with pattern sizing quickly

That is a lot of ease for a 12 based on a 34 bust, and I would normally have said forget it, that it's meant to be loose fitting and you'd get bad results if you tried to alter it to something form-fitting.

However, having looked at it, it is quite form-fitting in design and recommends crisp fabrics, too - that sizing does seem a bit strange to me - Simplicity patterns are notorious for being too big. With those princess seams (or are they darts? I can't quite tell) you might easily come down a size or two. I wouldn't go as low as a 4 or 6, though - I'd stick at 8 and then alter the muslin, if you can't trace the pattern.

And get some tracing paper in!

:) Trish

Is $7 all that patterns cost over there? Jeez, it might be cheaper to get them shipped over to the UK next time I want something!

Charlie.

I need help with pattern sizing quickly (no=A0spam)

I think it's meant to be loose and maybe God wanted me to pick up the wrong size?

Any large piece of anything flat and thin will do. In the bad old days, I got a lot of use out of grocery bags and old newspapers.

Just looking at the wall in front of me as I type, I see shelf paper, package-wrapping paper, gift-wrapping paper, packing paper, typing paper, newsprint, and a gen-you-wine hippie shirt pattern on a bag I got from the Singer store before they went broke about 1970 -- with the neat quarter-inch stripes, I rather suspect that they *meant* for it to be made into a pattern.

On the other wall, there's a briefs pattern made from tissue paper, and a pocket pattern made from extra-thin non-woven interlining. Heaven only knows what's in the trunk.

There is quite certainly newspaper.

Joy Beeson

I always go off the finished garment measurements (and the back, where it should say if its supposed to be close fitting) or not. The first thing I ever made was a pair of pants, and I went off my pattern size (14), and they fit me exactly like an RTW 14 would! I.e. They fell straight down! I noticed the finished garment measurement for the size 10 was closest to my hip width so I made those and they fit perfectly. I always go off finished garment measurements now and I rarely have to adjust a pattern. And don't even get me started on McCalls - I have to go down to a size 6 to get those to fit - and I am NOT a size 6 by any rule, pattern or RTW! I think you'll be fine going off the finished garment measurements, it's the only way I can make clothes that fit me. I hope it turns out well!

Katy M

If the wrong size pattern would bring a person to do something they wouldn't have done with the right size.... God *would* use it.

God was not blamed for the wrong size, it was mearly stated that perhaps there was a lesson to be learned by picking up the incorrect one.

I need help with pattern sizing quickly

(no spam) I think it's meant to be loose and maybe God wanted me to pick up the wrong size? --- I forgot to address this question when I offered some tidbits of advice on the other issues--so, since you asked: no; I think He deals in sparrows and wine, and occasionally solaces small children and widows, but I don't think he is involved with the pattern choice issue. That's a personal decision. Can't blame The Man for that one. Cea

One of the first things that I do before cutting around the pattern lines of a multisized pattern is to take a similar pattern and/or similar garment and put the tissue on it and try and determine the size I might want to use. While the body of the shirt may be too large in your usual size, make sure that the armpits won't be too small and the sleeves not long enough, etc,. etc.

I need help with pattern sizing quickly

*I just took a look at the pattern on I have that pattern also. Yes, you definitely would not want that one to be very loose. Let us know how it turns out.

*When JoAnn Fabrics has a sale, they are either 99cents or $1.99!!!!!! That's when we stock up. Also, Wal*Mart, if you bring in the ad, will match their prices. Many of the patterns are 1/2 off at JoAnn's everyday and Wal*Mart has SIM and MC 1/2 off, too. I don't know if there are any websites where you can get them at a discount, however. Then there would be some conversion from pounds to dollars. If you do have a friend in the USA, you might want to see if she/he would buy them and ship them over. The postage is pricey but I have shipped patterns to a friend in the UK, probably about 10, for about 15 US dollars, less than the price of one pattern.

Thanks everyone! I'm sewing it together now, and I went with a size 8 because I did make a muslim of a 4 and it was about 2 inches too small. (would have took about an inch to close it all the way and another inch for a little room).