Enlarging a Book Pattern By Hand
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Enlarging a small pattern from a book (on a grid) is much easier when you have a large grid to copy it on to! I had a lot of fun scaling up a pattern from Medieval Garments Reconstructed and I look forward to making up a mock-up soon!
If you have access to a printer, you could also try digitally enlarging your pattern and printing it. Check out my previous video "Scaling a Pattern Up to Life-Size" for more information on that! • Scaling up a Pattern t...
Have you enlarged a book pattern? What method did you use and how did it go?
Medieval Garments Reconstructed by Lilli Fransen, Shelly Nordtorp-Madson, Anna Norgard, and Else Ostergard (Amazon Affiliate link here: amzn.to/30tkVi6)
If you found my video explanation unclear, try Bernadette Banner's video explaining the method! Sometimes hearing it explained differently helps!: • Video
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So last time I had to size up a pattern from a book, I had an old school overhead projector in my classroom. I copied the pattern onto overhead sheets, and taped bulletin board paper to the wall. Just had to move the projector to the right distance, check the scaling and focus, then trace away! Grid wrapping paper is awesome too! ❤
I was going to suggest this, also. AND... at a place like Michael's, Hobby Lobby, etc. they sell a mini projector that works very similarly. With a coupon on sale, it is under $40. I have used it for projecting patterns to trace, tracing an art project to paint, doing a rough draft of ALL sorts of thing. Knowing how to scale up is important, so this was a great lesson...BUT... where there is a short cut? TAKE IT and run with it!
I picked up two old-fashioned overhead projectors years ago. Great for scaling patterns, transferring patterns for painting banners.
Ooo! Sounds like a delicious solution!
That's such a good idea!
Brilliant. THANK YOU for sharing with us!
If you have a friend that enjoys thrift shopping ask them to keep an eye out for a french curve. You would be amazed the amount of sewing tools end up at thrift stores. That’s where I found mine as well as a ham and other pressing tools. It’s like a treasure hunt you never know what you will find.
Don’t forget to write no seam allowance on your pieces... future you will thank you
I love how your 'pattern paper' is just wrapping paper with the cut guides.
1. That slo-mo intro shot was oh so satisfying.
2. This is SUCH a big help!
3. 4:22 is the biggest mood. 😂
quick conversion tip, those bold 5cm lines are close enough to 2inches that if you count them as a 2in grid the pattern will match up reasonably well. reverse tis for going the other way around 2 inches on a grid computes to 5cm.
its off by less than 1mm per 2 inches, the finial differential being easily taken up with a bit of seam allowance adjusting.
Oooo, awesome tip! Thank you!
@@MorganDonner you are welcome! I spent a lot of years getting confused while trading patterns with friends in other areas before figuring out this tip and now i use it all the time for converting in my head.
I’m getting ready to draft out this exact pattern... thank you so much
I find inches weird... so thank you for the back conversion ahahah
That’s great, thanks. In my professional life (medicine), I use metric measurements exclusively.
However, in hiking (land navigation), driving, gardening, cooking, carpentry, baking and sewing, I automatically use inches, feet and yards. It’s all about what you are used to using, I suppose.
Beautifully explained! I always feel like this is the most mundane part of a project - dot... another dot... 5 squares up... 7 squares across... - but you made it so entertaining and so pretty, and you explained it so well! I also love your on-brand pattern paper - pepperoni!
It also makes me so happy! I know it's just wrapping/patterning paper, but it makes me smile :)
This was very clear. (Just before I took a nap, I thought "I hope Morgan Donner is okay. I don't think I've seen her do a video since Costume College. Then I woke up - a rampaging cat ran over me, actually - and here your video was!) I always appreciate the simple down-to-earth way you explain things. Thank you.
Aww, I love that you were thinking of me! I am indeed ok, just a busy bee lately!
Oh my gosh, I did exactly the same thing yesterday!
@@MorganDonner I had read about the garments you referenced, but I haven't read the book. Thanks for the reference. (I had an interest in Norse history and culture that came as a natural result of teaching Beowulf and Hamlet every year. :) )
Aren't we all thinking of her? ^^ Since Costume College there is so few real sewing content that is coming online. I understand this fully - sometimes you have to pause for a little while. But I'm just more thankfull for this sewing related new video of her!!! Thank you so much, @Morgan Donner! And it is near enough to "basic" stuff, to count for your series, I guess? *Looking innocent*
I enjoyed reading “Medieval Garments Reconstructed”; I also like “Woven in the Earth.”
I replaced my plastic French curve (I am so clumsy that I dropped it and it shattered) with two separate metal French curves (one is just a hip curve). It is such a useful tool for pattern drafting.
I definitely need to get one someday!
I just ordered that one the other day! Waiting on Amazon to deliver it!
Oh Cathy Hay, Bernadette Banner and Morgan Donner video releases all for a Saturday night viewing, accompanied by fresh home bread from the oven and cat and greyhound sharing the viewing sofa. Thank you so much for this. Cathy Hay has inspired me to do the "Dream Project" and your video tonight has given me the "know how" to get the pattern out of the book and in to my sewing room. Bernadette contribution was a bit unexpected, it showed me that I do not what to try out 18th century hairstyles, although it was fascinating to learn about them. Thank you, all 3 of you.
That entrance slow-mo shot was EPIC!
You could print out a French curve or hip curve template, and then cut it out of card
wow this is really good tip, I'll print my own
wow this is really good tip, I'll print my own
I was thinking of doing this for my first pattern enlargement project but I wasn't sure it'd work. Thanks for the tip!
You are a fricking genius !!!
I love this book. I had aspirations of spinning and weaving my own cloth from my Icelandic sheep but I have recovered from that minor lapse of insanity. Thank you for this demonstration and support of transferring the patterns. I am thrilled to know I am not alone in my endeavors to medievalize my everyday wardrobe 😉 Again sending many thanks from Maine, USA
I used to love connect the dot books when I was a kid. Now I still love connecting the dots. It's come in very handy for me when grading patterns.
I love the math of drafting from grid. Not sure why. I enjoy the connecting the dot treasure hunt. I have done both with and with out seams built in and personally LOVE without. I like the more precise stitching line guide as it also makes hand stitching a breeze.
This was a lot less complicated than I feared! Thank you. I now have greater confidence for when I finally embark on my first projects!
This would have been so helpful when I copied my Janet Arnold jacket pattern!! It seems self-explanatory now, but I remember being at a total loss when I opened up the book. This is the only video I've found going over the whole process this way!
I use a colored pencil to mark my size on a multi size pattern. 15 minutes of work saves hours of frustration.
I use painter's plastic to trace it off with Sharpie. Means I don't have to cut into the pattern to use it, I can adjust as I trace, and the mid-thickness plastic can be used over and over again without fear of stretching, tearing, and (worst of all) water damage. Had an aunt who did almoat all of her patterns on paper. Grandma had traced her off a dozen patterns on plastic. Aunt had a basement flood, and lost all of her patterns except the ones Grandma gave her. Made me resolve to do most of my patterns on plastic as well. Have yet to lose one to pin damage, wrinkles, water, kids running over it, and the one time some idiot left a smoothie on my work. The fabric had to be re-washed, but the pattern was clean in 30 seconds (gotta love washcloths and wet wipes!).
I just made 1810 stays and I enlarged it on the copy machine at work. I used to do this “cheat” in college to scale up images or drawing for my art history classes doing period elevations of rooms
Seeing someone talk really excitedly about things their passionate about is always so inspiring
Perhaps it's because I once had a job that involved a lot of measurement conversions that I found this method so confusing.
2.54 cm = 1 inch. 25.4 mm = 1 inch. As another stated above, 5 cm is very close to 2 inches.
Even easier than remembering that is to do an Internet search using a phrase such as "convert cm to inches". All sorts of websites pop up that allow you to input either cm or inches & will convert them for you. No math or memory necessary.
I'm looking forward to seeing how you construct the gown!
It occurred to me while watching this, that you do all of the basic things a person in construction does to measure and plan what they build.
I hope to have a home built one day, because I tried to renovate an RV before and realized that I can't measure and cut correctly no matter how many times I tried. I love sewing though and can see correctly, and fabric is a bit more forgiving than a beam of wood as you end up cutting the excess fabric from the seams anyway.
I think my hope is renewed that if I put more effort into my sewing skills then maybe construction won't be so difficult after all since it's literally just the measuring and cutting that I had issues with.
Now I have an easier goal, with room for a larger goal later on.
Thank you very much, because this was something I was struggling with. But this video really helped me.
I was having a rough night but this video helped me distance myself from the issue and I learned a New Thing!! Thanks for being such a cool person :D
I love the book too. One of the authors Lilli Frandsen was my pattern construction teacher when studying pattern making. 😍 I havent used the book for making garments though. Love your videos. You're so patient and your explanations are excellent
I love your videos. Thank you. Inspiring! I typically only make doll clothes, vintage style but virtually ‘real’ tiny clothes. I think my next dolly will be a medieval lass dressed authentically as much as I can make it 😍
Interesting and educational as it is, you can actually buy this pattern in life size. I bought it from a medieval market I'm pretty sure here in Denmark. Love your vids btw, very inspiring and reminds me of when I was a medieval reenactor.
Lol was pleased to hear you say what you did about using cms on your inch gridded paper, cos it’s what I wanted to say. Doesn’t matter what the grid measurements are. The grid lines give you your straight edge and everything else is the measurements.....and they are whatever they are, be they inches, cms, mm or googleplexes.
Oh, this is timely find. 😬 I may have accidentally cut out the wrong size pattern and need to do some sewing wizardry to get my skirt to fit. It fits around the legs but the waist/hip area is a bit too small. Gores/gussets/whatever you call those triangle bits need to be mathed put and put in the side seams.
Edit: for anyone else needing an easy gauge for converting cm to inches, 10 cm = 4 in. Knitting has that as a basis for basic knit stuff.
Thank you for making this series. I have been longing to recreate this garment for what feels like an eternity, but it's always felt daunting. I think I am going to take the dive this week and do the thing.
Bravo! Job well Done! This is the one thing I dislike the most is sizing up patterns and all the math involved. I would love to own a computer program that would do it for you...just input the numbers for the size you want an print it out.....oh to dream....Lol! You did a fabulous job. I subscribed because I want to see the end product. You mentioned the 1300's.....my family was able to go back into our family tree all the way back to 1060...crazy stuff.....kings and princesses.....and the beautiful clothing that was worn. I have a cousin right now in France doing some research on our family tree! I think I was born in the wrong time era! Keep up the good work Morgan and I'll be waiting to see your finished piece!
Back in prehistoric SCA we had to make our own graph paper.
But then I'm Older than Dirt.
lol I draft like this but right on the fabric (in chalk tho)
Totally unrelated, but I am living for your eyeliner!
Scaling and Unit conversion between metric and Imperial. Sounds like what my son is doing in his grade 10 math unit this week. Marvelous work, looks great! Good luck with the project. Thanks for all the tips.
This was super helpful to watch !! I jut purchased a vintage childrens Gunne Sax pattern that is a little too small for me, and I think I can employ something similar to this technique to size it up! Thank you Lady Morgan!
A joy to watch; I love hearing your thought processes as you navigate the project. Thank you for sharing xx
I'm a medieval scholar currently learning Old Icelandic and I think it's pronounced Her-yolvs-nes with the same soft 's' that you're doing and with the 'e' sound from 'get'. Stress is on the first syllable 'her'. F usually makes the 'v' sound from English, and j makes the 'y' sound. I double-checked this with my professor and he says that pronunciation is correct. I'm basing this off of the fact that the settlers were from Iceland, so that would likely be their pronunciation!
Oooh. I just bought the Victorian Dressmaker and had been wondering how I would do this.
Also have taken out stick in the polka dot wrapping paper?
Oh me too. Mine arrived yesterday. So Morgan's video is perfectly timed!
So glad you are doing this pattern. I was looking at the exact gown and pondering how to make it... now I have a reference
I have wanted to make one of these for years, so excited to finally start!
Thank you for another video! I always look forward to each new one you post, since I've been using them to learn from and to hone my own sewing skills. I think I need that book, because that pattern looks like exactly what I've been looking for to make my own medieval kirtle! I'm excited to see how your finished piece turns out!
I loved your cutting out montage! The way the little in between scraps of paper curled up was so graceful and pretty!
Morgan, you have just the best personality and when I watch your videos I learn so much. Now, onto this pattern enlargment. I have seen garments broken down by pattern pieces and in fact have copies of some with the intent of duplicating the pieces to create the garments. I admire you for attempting this method, because this is so intimidating. I am good at looking at a garment and duplicating it by draping on a dressform then creating the pattern pieces, but to do it this way takes skill. I do however like the pattern enlargement method you did for medieval dress and corset. Very impressive. Looking forward to the results of this project.
I love your videos and I'm really excited to see how this gown turns out - I'm halfway through making my second one right now and had no idea there was such a good book out there. I love seeing other people tackling similar projects because it gives me ideas and solutions I never would have thought of on my own!
The thunder is a cool effect for you thinking and calculating. Love your videos
I find having accurate seam allowances a must so that my garment measurements stay exact. Just my thought on this subject. Thank you for this video, I think I now dare to take the plunge! 😏❤
My husband bought that book (and “Woven into the Earth”) for Yule six years ago. I have found both books inspiring, but admit I have drawn my own patterns “free hand” rather than scaling the book patterns up. With mostly “rectangular pieces” types of patterns, that has worked well for me. But Mrs. Donner has inspired me to try scaling up some of the more complex patterns.
Seeing you notification pop up, completely made my day!
And not like my heart was already telling me to sew ALL the things!🤗🤗🤗
learn something new every day. the thinking part is more than I wanted to do
Lovely Miss Morgan! Thank you for talkingwalking through this. I find myself attempting to en-biggen patterns and there is always this strange fear that comes with it. The idea that I would do it wrong, and end up wasting time which keeps me from even trying. This walk-through was definitely needed, welcome and fun to watch!
Also, side note, I know Enchanted Rose Costumes did a video on 'Books' but have you ever thought to do one? Books you use for information, books that inspire you, books that are super useful for SCA/Historic renactors or people who like to play dress up with the past?
😯 12 minutes into the video I realized you're using wrapping paper as pattern paper - awesome!!
i've been watching you for like three days straight now and i gotta say you remind me a lot of Echo Gillette whom does art type stuff on youtube. your voices are very similar. super calming.
also Costubers are excellent crochet motivation
I must confess that right after watching your video I went and bought the book. Hope to give one of the patterns a try myself!
The filmography in this video is your best yet! Very entertaining to watch! Keep up the amazing work! 💖💖💖
Funny you should mention thunder when we just had a thunderstorm blow through Monday, lol. Loving your curls, btw, so supre cute. This is exactly something I needed. I watched the copying from a book using your phone then printing everything out amd couldn't wrap my mind around it. I hueas I need an idiots guide version, I am not tech savy at all. But this I can do. I can copy from a grid and go from there. That I can do. You just made this so easy oeasy for me. Thanks for this. I cant wait to go try it out now.
I tried a slightly different enlarging method once, for a rococo gown for my 1/3 scale ball joint doll. The book illustrations were supposedly drawn to scale, but were not shown on a grid. The method resembled a starburst, with guidelines radiating from one corner to the other corners and important points. There were problems from the get-go, not the least of which was the constant math calculations down to 1/32’s of an inch. It became clear to me that I was barking up the wrong tree, and I was working harder, not smarter.
I adore your pattern paper.
Ooo, that remembering seam-allowance struggle is REAL 😭
I try to remember to mark on patterns what the included seam allowance is and if it isn’t marked I always assume that none is included.
wirite in BIG letters on each pattern piece that it doesn't include seam allowance. I do that too, helps 90% of the time ;)
Ask any seamstress, and we've all done that, usually when you are using expensive fabric, and you only just have enough fabric.
MendyLady after placing pattern piece on fabric, take a minute and put some short lines (dashes) where the cut line will be. This will help the oops! And don’t forget to write the size on each pattern piece.
Thank you so much for this. I have wanted to do something like this but was very hesitant. I learned so much from you that I think I will try it on something very small and straightforward at first. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and giving a boost to confidence.
Wow i can not wait to see, you cut and sew this garment 😊
Your new intro was so frickin cute!!! It looks so good!
So sweet to be called your Internet Apprentice!
This is so helpful!! And now I can’t wait to buy that book! Gotta save up some money. ❤️❤️
Thank you!! This was very helpful to me! I have several books with patterns like this and I’ve never been quite sure how to make them useable. Thanks!!
First, love your videos! Ok, just wanted to tell you that your last attempt at "Herjólfsnes" in the intro was pretty friggin' good! And as an Icelandic speaker, I would know :D
With some practice, you can get the rough calculations down in your head! I'm still in the progress of that though.like Nondisclosureable said below, 5 cm is roughly 2 inches so you can divide and multiply whichever way you need to get the approximate number.
Another fun and helpful video! So excited to see the final product!
This is on my list of things to do: Enlarge patterns from books and adjust patterns to my size. This might need to move closer to the top of my list. :D Good to see you! :D
I’m glad you have this video. I love my pattern books but I can’t make them because I don’t know where to begin with scaling a pattern up to my size
Omgeee! I saw that book on Amazon and didn't know I wanted if and if it was any good.. now I know that if you like it it's going to be great! Btw I love the dramatic unrolling of the paper 😍! Thanks for this!
Try Woven in the Earth. This is the companion book to that tome. Lots more info on how things were made. Also by Else Östengärd.
So excited to see this project progress. Thank you so much for posting this vid. (Always hoping that kudos will smooth your work and speed you along.)
I can't wait to see your project come to life!
I do a lot of recipes where I have to do conversions between grams and ounces. I don't do that math. I put the conversion I want into Google's search engine. It gives me the answer. You can do the same with cm to inchese and vice versa. :)
Late to the party, but just have to say using gridded wrapping paper for patterns is absolute genius!!!
I'm late to the Morgan Donner channel, but wanted to wish you Merry Everything and also say you have a lovely narration voice!
I think for me, I would do a computer-scaled print of the tricky small sections and corners with complex curves or multiple angles, then use your technique to expand the pattern to the correct size and shape. I would just use spray adhesive to place the printed section in the correct spot, cutting away the excess before adhesion.The pattern doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to function properly.
Question: Perhaps you have covered this on a video, and if so, please let me know. We at our house wear braids and would like you to explain how, when you wear your braids down, do you weave in the tie, for the tying off of the braids? I am imagining it is how it was done historically, and we love it. What do you use? Ribbon? Width. Your hair is always so lovely and you obviously know how to handle it well. Thanks so much.
There needs to be some pizza printed wrapping paper you can use lol. This also looks like such a fun dress with the pattern shapes and I'll need to grab this book.
I love watching your videos, and I always learn lots!
Searched for this kind of video, thank you!
It’s easy to get Swedish tracing paper for dressmaking patterns that has a centimeter grid preprinted on it. I get mine (live in USA) through Etsy and it’s very reasonable. For patterns in books such as Arnold’s or Jean Hunnisett’s, paper is available with 1” grids but I use Pellon quilters grid non woven interfacing fabric. It comes preprinted in a one inch grid in 45 “ width in a ten yard bolt. You can get it by the yard at JoAnn fabrics by the yard or bolt. If you use one of their 60% coupons they issue around once a month, a ten yard bolt will cost $20.
So clear and easy to follow. Thanks for demystifying this skill.
Where did you get your pattern paper? I have some from JoAnn’s Fabrics but found as I tried to square it the lines were off not that it matters too much in this application.
God your cutting table makes me wildly envious
THANK YOU THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEED!!!!!!
Thank you so much for all of the amazing videos
Here in Sweden we are used to pattern without seam allowance. I have a big ”cutting mat” and rotary cutter to cut out all pattern peices on in the fabric.
I would LOVE to see a basic garb video playlist? Have I missed it?? That would be great for new SCA members.
I ended up just making a shift, I need to go back to it and make some basic gowns and accessories too!
I LOVE your channel. THANK YOU!
There is a way to do this without all the cm to in conversions. You can do it all on one unit of measure.
Decide on the unit of measure and be consistent.
Find a central point in the original illustration. Fix a copy of the pattern that you want to your paper with tape or a pin/tack.
If the pattern is 1:4 ratio in cm, then find points on your pattern even if you have to create them. Measure point A to point B If that measurement is 2cm then multiply 2cm by 4 (if your ratio is 1:4) or what ever your ratio is.
2×4=8 with the zrero point tacked to the fixed point on your reference pattern align your ruler to the point A and take it out in the same angle and mark a new dot A on your paper. Then keep the dot in the fixed point and gently move the ruler or tape measure in the same angle as point B and project it up to a new poin B on your paper. The projected new points will always be 8 cm.
You will work all the way around the reference pattern until you projected all points . The fixed point always stays the same. When you get all of the new points you connect the new dots or points
This is similar to the Lutterloh system, only you only have one size option because you are just projecting it by a ratio. Once you get the larger size you have to make personal size adjustments.
I hope you understand my explanation. It is called "radial projction" and its been used for a long time to enlarge smaller scalled down patterns. You just hae to know what the ratio of the scale is to know how to multiply.
It sounds amazing, but it's difficult to see it in the mind from words. Then again I'm a beginner maybe I'll understand with more experience.
Yesss I've been waiting for something like this!! 💙
I love your hair style! The curls are super super cute
as someone who thinks and works in metric while so many tools and reference materials are in imperial, i feel your pain!
I am trying to make a pattern I bought and im new to sewing. This pattern comes highly recommended by everyone for noobs. My measurements are EXACTLY within the size ranges on it. (It only comes in one size, not multiple ones, another annoyance) and it's like 4+ inches too small in the bust 🤬🤬🤬 now I'm stuck as a noon trying to figure out how to get it to fit me. After investing $25 into the pattern alone.
Oh, I also recently bought patterns of fashion 5. Wow! Amazing book! And I read on their website that not only is book 6 coming next, but they then are going to also put 1-4 back into reprint! Yayayay! Just thought I'd share this information with everyone.
Love the little curls on the sides of your face! That’s a cute coiffe ^^
Heya, you could just use the your inch measuring tape on the pattern in the book, then use the scale 1:5 to scale it up for you, no need to converge back and forth from cm//inch and back :) might be a bit tricky on smaller measurements but if you are more comfortable in inches just go ahead and use that! also 1inch =2.5cm =25 mm if that helps you in any way :)
Really nicely done video!! I enjoy your channel!
I can’t wait to see you make this up!
It’s a shame you don’t have access to metric graph paper,
I just use my computer monitor. If the pattern has check mark (like 4' square or 6' ruler) I make the same mark on paper sheet, then scale image on screen so they match when you put the sheet over a screen. And then just trace, moving, but not scaling the image😊
OooOooo I've got a Viking dress in the making. Not going to be historically accurate though. I'm allergic to wool 😭. Also linen is so much more expensive than cotton.
I do have to say.
You can scan the page into a computer and then print it out to scale. A copy centre can help if you do not have the know how. Much quicker, but then, I acknowledge that you might be going for original practice. And also, drafting your own makes you very familiar with the shapes and markings.
As you were....
😁😁😁
This is off-topic, but the way you write a capital E is so gosh darn cute lol
I am inspired to sew one too.
I always use pencil first for my lines and then trace over anything that needs to be permanent.
I use this method myself and then put the pieces in a Manila envelope with the date it was done and for whom the garment was fitted.
Very good tips! Thank you!