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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I would be very, very suspicious of claims about this. Grading patterns and fitting them to a specific person is much harder than simply plugging numbers in to a program. You're likely going to need to do significant fitting of the pattern. (Also, without getting too deep into the process, you're going to need to either have a very wide format printer, or a pen plotter, in order to use the patterns. Which certainly isn't the end of the world, but most people don't have a 72" wide roll-to-roll printer at home.)

I'm saying this as someone that did their undergrad work in fashion design, and used to be pretty decent at pattern making before I switched industries.

I've used multiple flat patterning techniques from a range of authors; you can get some really weird results when you plug your own measurements in, versus the 'ideal' measurements. For instance, I always need to significantly pitch the back of jeans patterns for myself (like, 2-3" or more); some ways of creating a jeans sloper end up being so incorrect on me that they don't work at all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have you actually used their system? Or even been to the website?

The numbers aren't automatically scaled; they tell you what measurements to take and how to take them, then the pattern is automatically adjusted to your actual measurements. You can download large format patterns or get them split up into A4 pages that you can print at home and tape together.

It doesn't matter how much of an expert you are if you have done nothing more than read the headline before racing into the comments to shit on it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

[...]then the pattern is automatically adjusted to your actual measurements.

This is called grading. Except that it doesn't actually work quite like that; you can't just dump new numbers into an existing sloper (or block, depending on which term you were taught) and expect to be able to make it fit correctly without extensive edjustment. Grading works pretty okay when you're talking about smaller sizes (for women, that would be commercial sizes 00-4 or so, roughly size 6-12 for true sizing), but does not work well when you're just plugging in numbers past that very limited range.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes, I'm more of a novice, but have already tried multiple pattern systems as well. An expensive digital one with loads of measurements superficially similar to this. Also Luterloh system with radial coordinates, but that just sizes you from one measurement.

Luterloh gave me an oddly sloped buttseam. I always have to lengthen sleeves, the custom sized does do that for me, but I also still had to adjust other stuff. Different from a commercial pattern but do still have to do some adjusting.

As for the printing, it's the same as every other digital pattern. You either tape a whole bunch of A4 or Letter sized paper, or print in A1 or A0 roll. Freesewing is actually good at this, you can rearrange the pieces to fit whatever paper you will print on before saving as pdf.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the link! As a 44 yr old cishet male this is super handy for me!

I've also passed it along to a few other folks I know that sew!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Okay now let me order the clothes without having to make them myself

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Consider going to a tailor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm kinda dumb with federation. Is there a way to access the mastadon instance through Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity and bug hunting, what is the title of the post you thought you commented on, and what client do you use?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The freesewing.org software post on technology.org. I could swear there was a mastadon instance mentioned for a related community but I can't find it now. I'm using Connect, but the bugs are probably in my brain rather than the client.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Thank you, I've seen this a few times now (twice on this post in fact), and am betting it is a client issue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

For all those people so abundant on Lemmy that love plush sharks, they have a pattern to sew that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do you have to sign up though?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Signing up allows you to store your measurements and patterns, but you don't have to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

You can just go to the designs and enter measurements manually