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Pattern making measurements
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Mon, 02/24/2014 - 03:11
Hi...could you tell me why you use different numbers like 9,6,4,2 for dividing the measurements? When half of bodice pattern is taken, the armpit gets divided by 2. But the bust gets divided by 4.also while drafting back bodice..from G to H why did you take 4 cm.?
I saw a post of another person asking the same question regarding measurements. But you had mentioned to refer a link regarding darts. Could you please explain because I could not understand.
Tue, 03/04/2014 - 08:20
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Thankyou so much
Thankyou so much
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Dear Adorable,
To be able to bring a three dimensional human body and draft a pattern for it on a two dimensional piece of paper, we need to divide the measurements of different parts of the body by these set numbers.
One of the reasons for these divisions, is that we want to draft one half for the front and one half for the back pattern. So for example, the circumference of the bust, waist, upper hip and lower hip should be divided by 4, since when measuring, we measure the back and the front of each of these parts of the body at the same time.
But the front armpit distance and back armpit distance measurements should be divided by 2, since we measure them separately.
To create the shoulder slope in the bodice block pattern, we need to go down 4 cm on the back pattern and 3 cm on the front. This is so that we can place the shoulder seam line a bit towards the back, so that it is not so visible from the front.
Hope this clarifies things,
Happy sewing,
Nehzat