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Caveat: if the extant example has a much much shorter waist-to-armpit vertical measurement than yours, you might need to expand the "actual size" image both horizontally (as she does in the video) and a small amount vertically, too. This might save you several ill fitting mockups!

Amazing! I have no idea how to do this computer sorcery. In the eighties, before Macs took my job, I did paste up all day for printing. We had manual versions of these calculators and I sat on the floor with a yardstick doing this manually on freezer paper. With a round plastic calculator, you turned wheels to get the percentages. And we had one book, GET OFF MY LAWN! 😆 There was only one book - the 1930s book of theater costumes that were wrong. This was 1987 when I think Nora Waugh was just publishing? But when I went to Mardi Gras in a beautiful court suit - totally worth it!

Comment for alg! This is not something that I do but I still enjoy watching! I really enjoy your editing style/B-roll.

Wow, thank you. I think my irrational intimidation just took a critical hit!

You used to be able to save a scan as an image file (still might, check the Save As menu, or Scan As Photo option)... You can also take a photo with a phone camera instead of a scanner. (One option to get the photo from your phone to a computer is to email it to yourself, and as it's already in an image file format, no pdf conversion is needed.) And yes, always support libraries ❤ Great video!

YES! Excellent work!

Thank heavens for a Paint demo, I've been grouchy that everyone's using Adobe when that's $$$.

Very interesting video. Thank you. Shoutout to libraries. 💖📓📖📕

Thank you for this! I haven't done this digitally. I have used _The Medieval Tailor's Assistant_ and _The Tudor Tailor_ and just redrew the patterns onto 1" graph paper. Luckily, the model sizes aren't so different from mine that I had to do much. It didn't occur to me that it might be easier to do it digitally because my printer is old & trying to scale things using my printer would've been horrible. Doing crazy things in Paint to scale it then print it out is much saner. For those who don't want to deal with the percentage calculator, that's (number you want)/(number you have), then x 100 to get %. Be aware that I am the type of person who uses math daily & installed the free Calc84 app on my phone as soon as I could. 😂 Zamzar is a free online file type converter which also has a strict limit on the number of files you can convert per day. Edit: fixed spelling error

Very helpful info, as always!

I'm helping. I have hit like. I have commented. Now off to ko-fi. I'm helping. More videos for us, pleases and thank yous.

Excellent instruction!

Thank you for doing this! I'm not skilled enough yet to be able to use the advanced books but it will be super helpful when I get there. 🧡💙

This is sooooo helpful! Thank you so much 🙏❤️❤️

I had NO IDEA you could scale *up* in Paint - I had only ever used it to size images down! This is such a revelation!! Thank you for making this video, it will absolutely make me more likely to use gridded patterns!

Super clever! ❤❤❤

Thanks so much for this video. It was very helpful. p.s….. I’m in a similar boat when it comes to math…I can do it fine, but I get scared before I start and have to do it to the nth degree to make sure I know it is ok. I’ve become lazy, since I left college decades ago, so the only math I do is checking my bills, doing sudoku and pattern scaling (only if I have to). So, this video is really , super helpful. I will go to your KoFi page, but I don’t get paid until next week, so please be patient. 😊

Hello Love your work! Thank you for sharing :D.

I was needing this today.

Much easier than the first time I scaled up a pattern. It didn't have a grid so I drew it one. Then I measured the waist on the pattern and calculated the ratio I needed to increase it by then drew a custom sized grid on wrapping paper and did the old grid copy thing from elementary school square by square. It took about four mockups where I realized how my measurements lie, and the finished product annoys my ribs :P

You are so clever...and soooo pretty!

Fantastically useful channel!😁

Most scanners will give an option to scan to image rather than PDF, which I would definitely recommend. If you do have PDFs though, you can use PDFSam Visual to convert PDF to image, if it's for personal use then they have a free option. Also if Paint won't save and you do want the file for future reference, you can Print to PDF. This will allow you to save the same file you are printing; in case you want to reprint or take the file somewhere else to print. Just make sure scale set to 100%

That is really good to know. Though my computer skills are rusty and out dated. No worries I have kids lol!

If you have a Mac, things like resizing, converting pdf to jpg etc., are all available in the Preview app (which is built in to the OS).

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Most of these gridded pattern books were never intended for sewing. They’re academic books to show a body of research. Why they’re so pain in the rush.