I think my house will burst!

Phae,

Clicking on the webshots pictures to enlarge them provides enough detail to see that the jacket is gorgeous! Great serendipity: beautiful fabric, perfect pattern, your skill.

(Something tells me that household includes a person with an interest in gardening...)

Doreen in Alabama

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Doreen
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Oh, that looks great! I love the pink inside! :)

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Kate Dicey

The point was, you design the style from scratch.

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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

Yes, but I wanted those particular designs.

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Kate Dicey

When you said " Two more excellent reasons to try pattern drafting software GD&RFC" in response to Kate sighing because there were just two sizes for that pattern, what exactly were the "two excellent reasons" to which were you referring? I'm really trying to understand how pattern drafting software that requires you to start from scratch in order to reproduce a non-digitized commercial pattern into a different size is somehow what.... easier? faster? more accurate?.... than making revisions to the flat pattern? I'm not trying to give you a hard time here. I'm trying to understand the specifics.

Phae

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Phaedrine

Not Melinda, here, but I don't think it works that way. From what I have seen, the programs give you a choice of garment types, and you select the elements from a list of styles -- bodice, skirt, sleeve, neckline/collar, etc., and it will draw them up to your specifications as to measurements.

Where they can't help at all, from what I have seen and I would be happy to be corrected, is a pattern for a garment that is not "standard" or included in their profiles. So if you see a dress that is really unusual in some way, the pattern drafting software can't help you copy it.

The more expensive the software, the more choices you get. But no matter what you pay, you aren't going to get a program that can give you a truly unique pattern.

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Pogonip

I don't envy you having to make those calls. My parents had to go through that with my Grandmother, and it was so hard on everybody...I certainly wouldn't wish that on anyone.

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Angrie.Woman

Well, in the first place, the GD&RFC said that I was teasing her a bit. In the second place, she had two different pattern styles she was looking at, or two different sizes, or something like that.

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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

Sorry, you musta missed the GD&RFC at the end? I was just razzin' ya some.

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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

This is another good reason for not bothering at this time: I *need* software that will allow me to print patterns for unique and unusual things of my own design. Sleeves or collars from a choice of 10 are not enough: I need to be able to do things like sleeves the size of wedding gown skirts, with dagged edges, and collars that stand from the bust line rather than a standard neckline. I need it to tell me how much wire to allow to make the thing stand up...

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Kate Dicey

I've bought lots of patterns in two sizes: ones I like particularly and bought again when I dropped off the bottom of the range I got originally, costume patterns because they can change so fast and I like to have them by 'just in case', and this summer several that customers chose that I also loved, and was in a different size range from the customer. One of them I have now made twice for me! :)

It sounds like while fairly standard skirt patterns would be doable with the software, more esoteric things with seams of odd curves in strange places (like the one I'm wearing, by Issay Mayaki) would be hard to do, and *those* are the things I like to make and the customers like to wear!

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Kate Dicey

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Kate Dicey

Amen

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Phaedrine

Thanks Doreen, you are too kind. :) It was a fun pattern to do and I got the fabric for 40% off too. I took the photo against the white bookshelves because black is not easy to photograph. And yes, we are gardeners, though I haven't done much this year because my hands are such a mess from allergy. But my husband's garden is doing great. I've frozen many bags of broccoli and peas so far. Yum :)

Phae

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Phaedrine

That is absolutely beautiful. I'm speechless!

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Angrie.Woman

You can edit the patterns to do that and they will print, but,

*remembering that I was originally just joshin' ya a bit*, you can do as much as you can by choosing styles and then those styles will apply to every person you craft it for, then the rest of it needs to be done by editing the pattern -- BUT there are many ease options on everything, and until you try the demo you will never know what all it can do.
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Melinda Meahan - take out TRAS

Aw gee thanks. A good design and pretty fabric really help a lot.

Phae

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Phaedrine

Indeed difficult. I had to make these decisions with DM; she had lived alone for some 17 years and had always been an independent soul. But the time came when she kept firing helpers I hired for daytime aid: cooking, general cleanup, bathing. I lived some 300 miles away and it was hard to keep up with what was going on. I still regret having to move her to a nursing home but it was necessary.

Jean

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Jean D Mahavier

Dear Friends,

In fact, you can use Patternmaster Boutique to do your own unique designs. I used that program when I was teaching CAD. I much prefer AutoCAD, but I had too many students and the school balked at paying $600 per program. AutoCAD has a mechanical lock on the machine, and when the computer lab was updated, someone "forgot" to retrieve these locks--thus I had to change to a cheaper program.

Go to the pattern editor. Retrieve a sloper for the person for whom you wish to design, and draw the design on top of the sloper. It's frustrating at first, but gets easier with each design.

I don't have to draft that much anymore, except for my dolls, so I do it by hand. I've always enjoyed the manual work.

Teri

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gjones2938

Filthy cheapskates! ;)

I will try it, honestly. Real soon now, too. Just not today - my feet hurt! ;) I have a chance to explore it, and if it really does what I want, I shall use it. The printing will be a pain until I can organise something to cope with it, but if the program really does what I want, I shall work that one out later. I'm impatient, and drafting by hand is NOT my favourite thing in the world - I much prefer to skip that and get on with the sewing part!

Can you use it for dolls? If so, it will be even more tempting! :)

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Kate Dicey

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