Modern Sewing pattern for board shorts?

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Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH
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I was looking at this one she posted -

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I can't see how the C & S pattern could do this. I would guess that she would either have to draft the pattern from scratch, or buy a commercial pattern like this one. But you have said that you can do anything with the WG pattern system.

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Pogonip

Coming in late, I don't see the original message so I don't know exactly what the question is, but if OP is looking for a similar shorts pattern (with a yoke), in a big three pattern:

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BEI Design

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> Beverly

Beverly, Pora found a pattern, but she's gotten recommendations for Click & Sew pants, and I asked how that would work given that the style Pora wants doesn't have a standard waistband or an elastic waistband. I'm just trying to figure out how adaptable these pattern programs really are - if they can produce a variety of styles or if the user has to get into pattern drafting.

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Pogonip

Buy the size that comes closest

Teri, upon rereading your instructions I finally get what you mean. Thanks for the tip! I'm glad you recommend this technique!

Re: Plus-size Petite It just occurred to me to look at size charts for men's pants. I think men's shorts proportions would just about work for me. If I could find very low rise men's trunks/boardshorts, maybe they'd sit at my waist and basically be my petite-plus women's boardshorts. Dare I dream of buying off the rack???

Pora

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wurstergirl

I'm the last one to ask, remember I gave up on creating a pattern for a fitted dance jacket and deactivated and returned the program. That was after a great deal of discussion with customer service, trying without success to get a proper two-piece sleeve to print. It obviously works very well for some here, it did not work for

*me*.

Beverly

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BEI Design

If you can only make standard designs, even with the ability to adjust them for "non-standard" bodies, it wouldn't be of interest to me. I have sometimes found a pattern that I like, then made quite a few things from it, making styling changes to the basic form. That I can handle. The few times I've really looked at a system, it has been a lot of work to enter all the measurements, then print out and paste together the result, and the result wasn't really something I wanted anyway. LOL! Standard designs are readily available and I don't need to adjust for high shoulder, odd hip, etc.

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Pogonip

Way back in my younger (and much slimmer) days, I bought men's Seafarer's, the navy jeans, and removed the waistband, turned under the seam allowance and sewed it down, and had bell-bottom hiphuggers. Men's pants fit very differently than women's.

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Pogonip

The full program has CAD in it. The C&S patterns don't.

It looks like that pattern should be fairly easy to create from any loose-fitting shorts pattern -- draw a yoke line that is half the length from waist to hip on the pattern front and pattern back, split the pattern pieces at that point, add a seam line to both pieces where you split the pattern, take the yoke pieces and place center fronts on fold and cut a full-width front and back piece, and draw a bias seam line.

Or if Pora is close enough to standard pattern sizes, she can just buy the un-customized New Look pattern

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under $5 (which would cost her $60 to get via Unique Patterns because they split it into three -- board shorts $21.95, capris and long pants $21.95, skirt $18.95 -- the Unique Patterns page clearly shows the New Look logo and a pattern number, so I hunted for that to see if the pattern was still in print, so I did) and make any alterations she needed on those pattern pieces.

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Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH

The full-bore program offers an option for a yoke on pants. If you download the demo, you can create every single option that you can create without using the pattern editor and see it for yourself. But creating a yoke manually is not difficult.

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Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH

I had a similar experience with Dress Shop, which I expected to love after drooling over it for a few years, except that in my case I could not get the patterns to print no matter what and customer service didn't seem to be able to help me. I was devastated, but once I found Wild Ginger I eventually made a full recovery.

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Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH

Dress Shop only creates standard designs, unless they have changed it in the past 3-5 years. Wild Ginger gives tons of options. Here's a sample list of settings you can change by the inch for garments you are designing:

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is one example of what the style setting panels look like:
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here's a style sheet of a garment created so you can see all the customization available:
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Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH

I understand your approach. Can you suggest a pattern that has a waist that is good for this? I am under the impression that the waistband/yoke of the pattern I like is specifically shaped to get a nice curve from waist to hip. This is important to me, as my waist is not close to standard proportions. (Thus the interest in custom generated patterns.) Standard fitted hip patterns would contain darts or pleats, and non-fitted/elastic waist ones would be too boxy.

Unfortunately my experience with trying to adapt standard patterns has left me scarred for life!

Pora

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wurstergirl

There is a pattern for yoga pants on Burda style At this URL

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It cost $2.50 to download. You have to sign up for the site but there are also lots of free patterns there. You may be able to adapt them to your needs. The site gives download instructions also. I'm sorry I didn't send you this sooner but I just found it today. Juno

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Juno B

That's easy. It's like removing the waistband of a regular pair of slacks with a regular waistband to create the yoke, widening it just enough to get it past your hips without needing a zipper, and doubling it to make the oversized casing for the drawstring.

Okay, not knowing your specific measurements, and knowing how un-standard my measurements are and how much I would hate to reveal them publically so that I am not going to ask yours, if you are not close to a standard hourglass shape -- either too hourglass or not enough, and I have been on both ends of the spectrum over the course of my life -- these are not going to look the same on you as they do in the picture, and you might not get the look you want. Have you considered cloning a garment you already own that has the fit/look you want and just adding the oversized casing thing to make them?

*chuckle* Uh-huh. It still takes me three or four iterations to get a standard pattern to fit right. I used to end up finally getting one pattern to fit and then making dozens of garments from it because I didn't want to go through the hassle of having to mess with getting another pattern to fit.
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Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH

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Thanks for looking. This pattern is for knits, which wouldn't really be appropriate for boardshorts.

Pora

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wurstergirl

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