You can do it!

You're so welcome!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks!

Glad you think so!

This is an important video to understand sizes as well: mellysews.com/pattern-ease/

I'm so glad!

Also, your point about making clothes to fit you instead of worrying about what your size "should" be is spot on! This is one of the main reasons I'm learning to sew (along with not wanting to support fast fashion). I'm a 5'11" tall woman and I often end up incredibly frustrated at not being able to find commercial clothing long enough for my frame. No more inappropriately short dresses or jeans that are 3/4 length on me! Thanks Melly.

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Yes, it used to be something that most people who sewed learned when they learned to sew. But indie patterns often do cover adjusting - the ones in my shop do!

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Best advice - get some cheap fabric so you can experiment with altering to fit your body. It's the best way to learn!

Melly Sews .... that is a great idea thank you so much. It’s a must do. 👍❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Glad I could help!

Hope it helps!

Can you say what you would do, iif the waist is a size 10 and the hip is a size 0 so the line doesn’t follow the curve of the pattern?

This is pretty much what I intuitively thought was how you’d do it, but helps to have the confirmation, as I was a little hesitant to just go for it. It really helps to know things about where to start with, pattern size, wise, such as fitting from hip and high bust size and adjusting from there, however. Definitely a helpful video and well worth watching. Thank you! I’ve purchased a couple patterns from your shop and finally found some of the fabric you used on those pajama pants, hmm, forgetting the name of it now, but the ones in mint with the words on it. Bought enough for my girls and myself and can’t wait to get back to the States so I can sew us up some matching pajama pants. Since I’ve always had horrible times fitting pants, I’m excited to try this pattern adjustment information on those pants when (if) we ever get back.

@@Nancyswerner you’d still mark your waist and hip points on the pattern and connect them, your line would just look like the opposite of mine.

Melly Sews Thank you so much for replying. I’ve been struggling with this trying to make my first pair of front zipper pants. Somewhere I read about the “full belly adjustment” and wondered whether I should be trying that. Is there a reason you don’t suggest that? I have been trying to avoid it so I would rather try it your way.

It depends on the pattern. No matter indie or big company, I always compare my measurements to the paper pattern. mellysews.com/pattern-ease/

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You can, but you should also plan to test fit with a muslin and check out this post and video first to see if you actually need to go up 4 sizes in the waist or if you could do less because of built in ease. mellysews.com/pattern-ease/

I don't have another video planned on blending, but if you need to blend to a bigger waist and smaller hips, then that's what you need to do, it's just as easy as what I did in this video. The harder part is learning to stop judging our bodies the way they are.

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Whoops, fixed that, should work now!

If any additional smoothing is needed I do it with my scissors when I cut out the pattern.

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Yes the fabric can make a difference in fit. Try to use something similar to what you plan to use for your final garment.

@@Mellysews thanks! Gosh, sewing with wool is going to add up quickly :/

I really can't as sizing varies so much between brands. If you can't get measurements from that person, at least see if you can find out what brands of clothes in size large fit them and look up size charts for those brands to get an idea.

@@Mellysews thank you so much , I know they said size 16-18 is equal to size large but I am not sure.

it’s here blankslatepatterns.com/collections/women/products/austin-tee

Shoulders usually correspond to the high bust measurement, but you can also measure your shoulders and then measure your pattern.

I would line them up at center back/center front and also at the waistline.

If your high bust and bust are within the measurements specified by the pattern, then you don't need a bust adjustment. Bust adjustments are for bust measurements that fall outside the pattern parameters.

@@Mellysews thank you

You shouldn't adjust the high bust. You should choose your base size from your high bust measurement and then adjust everything else. If the pattern doesn't specify, assume the high bust measurement is 2 inches less than the full bust measurement listed.

mellysews.com/how-to-do-a-bust-adjustment/