Scaling up a Pattern to Life-Size (using your home printer!)
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- I have enlarged small-scale patterns from books many different ways, often depending on both the specific pattern and what resources I have available to me at the time. I've hand drawn a pattern on large sheets of paper, I've used projectors to scale things up so I can trace them, and today I'll show you how to print a pattern on a standard printer.
00:01:31 - Instruction begins
If you don't have time to watch a video, here are the instructions:
1. Take a picture of the small-scale pattern. Save it on your computer.
2. Brighten your image to reduce how much printer ink it uses.
3. Open in Paint, use File, then Preferences to check the current image size in inches.
4. Adjust as needed with Resize until the image is at the correct measurements.
5. Print, but make sure to remove anything that says "Scale to paper", "Fit to page" or similar. You want it to print at 100% of its true size.
6. Tape all your papers together.
7. You have a life-size pattern now!
You'll still need to do some adjustments to the pattern, like adding seam allowance and making things sized to your own body, but this should give you a good starting point!
Check out Bernadette Banner's video for another pattern scaling method: • Video
The book used in this video is Patterns of Fashion 5, which is hella awesome, and you should buy a copy if you have any interest in pre-Victorian corsetry: shop.theschool...
The photo editing site I used, PicMonkey, can be found at picmonkey.com (NOT FREE, I was mistaken when I said so in the video, very sorry!)
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I am glad so many are enjoying the video!
I have a small amendment to make: I made a mistake, PicMonkey is no longer free. I have had a paid account for several years now, but I assumed that the free account version was still available. Very sorry to misinform everyone!
I said in my comment GIMP is basically the same program as photo shop but by different ppl, name and free! 100%
Photo Filtre is free and allow to resize and change all the colors, saturation etc.
To add to that, for microsoft users, an old version of Picture Manager is still downloadable and usuable on more modern versions like Windows 8 and 10. As far as I can tell it lets you edit images in the same way as the program you used. (I use it to edit my photos and scans all the time).
i know Im pretty randomly asking but do anybody know a good website to stream new series online?
For OS X users, Preview doesn't work for printing a single image across multiple pages. Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, however, does! Just export the file as a PDF from whatever image editing app you're using. You can do things like resizing and cropping in Preview, but if you need to correct any camera angle distortion or do a bit of extra editing to clean up details, unfortunately you'll need to use something else (eg. GIMP). Open in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, and when you go to print, under Paper Sizing & Handling, choose Poster, and make sure your Tile Scale is set to 100%. This should allow you to print images to their full size over multiple pages.
Gonna see if this will work well with some of the out-of-copyright books on the Internet Archive when I finally get the motivation to make something again!
You have blown my mind! My Janet Arnold books have just gone from "dream projects I might do one day when I finally learn to draft patterns from scratch" to "I could probably try my hand at this tomorrow"! Thank you for making the whole process more approachable.
Aww, that is the most lovely thing to hear Adam! I hope you try your hand at all the patterns :D
Terrific video! Especially the part where you thought the 'fit to page' option was off, only to discover that there were more than one; so often, videos show everything going perfectly and when I try it, I'm then lost as to where or how to fix it.
A suggestion from my photographer father for taking level images when he was away from his large photo mount thingie: get a small bubble level and place it on the back of your camera. Those small (about an inch across) bubble levels aren't hugely accurate but they are better than either nothing or many human eyes.
Oooo, using a level is clever! Thank you for the great tip!
You are a LIFE SAVER. I’m sewing a robe a la française with the American duchess book and this is the trick!!!😊
I did it! Admittedly the pattern was already gridded and online but still! I was able to print it at real size by following your directions! Thank you Morgan!
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
You're amazing! Thanks so much for doing this! It's exactly what I commented on in your poll for which stays/corsets to work on next and it's so helpful. Hopefully you'll be showing us the additional steps on your journey towards this new historical piece.
And.... Side note: thanks for being so down to earth and accessible. It's so great that you think about what an average viewer has available or can afford and don't take or assume an elitist attitude towards costuming. That's is probably my favorite thing about your channel! You're like the Suzelle of historical costuming on CZcams and you're my hero!
Thank you so much Jonii! I am looking forward to starting this one, just waiting for the fabric to come :D
I sometimes worry that I am a bit dull, but I am so glad that some people enjoy my videos anyways! As for cost/accessibility in costuming, it's one of the things I keep in mind because when I have chatted with new-to-costuming people, I have heard all sorts of excuses, and I am doing my best to address them!
"I can't make the thing because I don't have time to properly hand sew everything!" - Ok, machine sew it instead. Call it a mockup if you must.
"I can't make the thing because I can't afford the right linen/wool/silk!" - Then make it out of cheap thrift store sheets, and you can make a fancy one later if you like.
"I can't make the thing because I don't have the right shoes/corset/hat/whatever, so I might as well not make the outfit at all!" - You can get nice accessories later, make do with the less-nice version for now.
I want everyone who is interested in making costumes to just start! The only way people will get better is if they start learning and practicing now :D
Thanks for covering this process I like the really old book patterns and am rubbish at manual scaling this is great 👍
Wow I just spent close to 3 hours trying to enlarge my corset patterns for my sewing class..could not figure out the scaling option so this helped immensely! Thanks so much
Brilliant!! Although I will use this method for patterns in the future, I was able to use this for another project I've had on hold because I couldn't figure out how to print in poster size. Thank you!!
Awesome, I'm glad the video helped!
GREAT information for anyone. I have done this for years---but I am a photographer with "all the things" , tools and software wise for doing this. Thank you for giving everyone the information that is necessary to upscale book-based imaging.
One other thing people can do is that to print the pattern in one "chunk" , they can send the file to a print house. Even places such as Office Depot or Staples! Ask for an architectural rendering of an image file "to scale" and the pattern can be printed, usually , for under/around $10. It saves all the puzzle piecing of multiple pages. Not everyone can afford or would want to do this, but it is a definite option!
This helps SO much! I've been so intimidated by trying to figure out how to make things print to scale, but knowing you can do it in paint is amazing! I'm off to try ALL of the patterns now! Thank you!
Once again you make it look easy lol.
You did a good job with keeping to the free programs esp paint as it comes with windows! And paint is so much easier to use then photo shop!
And it was good that the first printing attempt buggered up. You then got to show more settings to watch out for!
GIMP is a free version of photo shop it does the same thing just by different ppl and different name and free!
Thank you so much now I can find and print out the medieval and Renaissance cloths that I need to make for my hubby and I with out having so much more of a pain
Sometimes just the simplest thing can make life so much better. Thank you Morgan.🤗
This video is AMAZING!!! I have often wondered how to upsize the patterns I see in books. You are fantastic!
Yes there is a clean and easy way. I use the transparency film and I print out the pattern then project it on to a white paper on the wall and sketch out the pattern to the size I want.
Thank you! I usually draft up Janet Arnold by hand, which doesn't bother me, but I just got Corsets and Crinolines. This will give me some ideas on how to go about working with that TINY little measuring thingy.
Awesome, I'm glad the video helped!
I used to do the corsets and crinolines patterns by hand too. I would just draw the grid myself. But as we are speaking I'm trying the method from this video out with a corsets and crinolines pattern. I think it will be a lot faster.
This is so helpful! Thank You! I love these exact set of stays and was thinking of making it myself. Having this (and further) video will help me a great deal as I am new to historical sewing.
Awesome, I hope it is very helpful for making these and lots of other historical garments!
This is a subject that has perplexed me for ages!!! Thank you for breaking this down!
Thank you for this tutorial, huge life saver last night. Though I had to make up how to shorten the torso seeing how you made the pattern larger gave me a pretty clear indication. Such helpful video (using American Dutches book pattern doesn’t tell you how to enlarge those tiny pictures)
Fantastic tutorial - I might even attempt to follow it one day. Have added this to my saved list so I can hopefully find it again!
this is amazing!!! thank you so much for making this video. This makes all those teeney tiny patterns so much more accessible to a beginner like me - who doesn't know how to draft yet!!!
My technology loving heart appreciates your hard work.
Thank you very much Annette!
I've been looking for a video like this! I have a pattern i would like to use but i've only used commercial patterns before, thank you so much for explaining!
Awesome! I hope it helps you on your project!
OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! XD I'm a total beginner in sewing, and I definitely don't know how to draft a pattern, I don't have neither the skill nor the patience (yet...) and I would still love to try my hand at historical sewing.
Honestly, Morgan, you've saved my life! ^^
So i actually took a screenshot of ur picture, and did this, starting my mock ups tomorrow morning as its 11pm at night now..lol...
Thank you Morgan! I'm going to try this method out for my corset!
Awesome! I look forward to seeing your corset! Will you be making a video on it?
Most definitely! It probably won't be out until end of feburary/beginning of March though 😉
I just tried this last night, after giving up hand scaling. Not that I couldnt do it, I found it to be tedious and I am lazy. But I did use the knowledge you had in this video to scale up an American Duchess dress pattern and I worked beautifully! I just have to make a mock up now. If only printers could do that....
Thanks Morgan.... Off I go now.... 💕💕💕
If you combined this with your new projector video, you’d be unstoppable. BRB checking how late I can commandeer a classroom with a doc cam at work...
Not that I would use this at this time....but dang, it will be sroted in my hhmmm, maybe future self. How did I not think of this......Thanks.
Gimp is a very good free photoshop like program. ;)
Thank you very much for your video !
Officially trying this today while in lockdown
I had no idea I could do this kind of thing in paint. Thank you!
Ooh, super helpful. Will be delighted to see how you attack the stays, especially the fitting. My only stay-making escapade (late 18th century fully-boned) led to pretty but poorly fitting results and have shied away from stays ever since. Will be grateful for any tips.
I will do my best! It will almost certainly require a couple mockups before I get it right, but I'll try to show how I got there!
I just used your tutorial, it works great. Thank you!! It saved me so much hassle.
Ah my weekend plans - it is so hard to do by hand. Looking forward to testing this out. Thank you.
I haven’t watch the full video yet but I already liked because I know it will be good! I watched Bernadette’s video but I’m definitely more tech inclined so thanks for making this video!!! One day I will try it
Thank you so much for sharing this information. Now I know how to print patterns! This video is AMAZING!
Yay, go print all the things, and then make all the things! :D
Thank you for explaining this to me because I've been wanting to use a pattern from my costume history book. And this makes a lot of sense.
What excellent instructions for wrangling one's printer!
little tip: there are also aapps for your phone that you can take a photo with and it sort of recognises the angle at which you took it so it can counteract any distortion, as if you scanned it flat ( I always use adobe scan but there are aa few different ones)
Thank you ! I’ve been wanting to try certain patterns but have been unable thanks for this :) probably will rewatch an hundred times 😂
This is such a helpful video. My only problem, now, is figuring out how to size up such a pattern to fit me as I am a woman blessed with a plus size figure. I have no idea how to do that sizing up, but I am sure there must be tutorials out there for that problem.
Thank you for this! :D I'm extremely late but who knows if this might be useful to someone: If you don't have a photo editing software, your phone's photo app will usually allow you to adjust a bunch of things like color balance, size, etc. You can edit it on your phone first, even if it's not ideal, then transfer it to your computer for the printing part :) There are a bunch of photo editing apps that you can get for free on various phones, but google photos has worked pretty well for me so far!
Some other popular free programs are Gimp and Krita. I know there a couple of others but I can't remember them right now--Draw with Jazza and LavenderTowne both did review videos on several free programs, comparing them.
Gimp has been around longer and isn't as hard on your computer to run but can be more limited in what it can do. Regardless, it's better than MS Paint in any version if you want to do a lot of picture editing or start in digital drawing. I haven't used this program though.
Krita is much more like Photoshop and other paid drawing specific programs, but as such has a lot more options for editing (which may or may not be overwhelming for some). I like it a lot for drawing though I'd hardly call myself an expert. I've never had any problems with it but I've heard it might be a bit laggy for some. It may also be too hardcore for some computers (mainly thinking the bare bones and older model of computers), but I don't have a super laptop and it runs fine even with a browser with too many tabs open.
Thank you for the in depth comment!
I have GIMP I like it but I don't do major photo editing, mostly dividing a canvas to put in multi pics for blog tutorials ect. The layering is handy ☺
Hope you have a part 2 to this video where you make the adjustments to the printed pattern
There will definitely be more!
That was really useful. Like, REALLY useful. I always have to mess with rulers and my inability to draw lines on a grid properly.
This is fabulous. Thanks so much for making this so accessible with the software you chose, etc. Can’t wait to see the stays! (But, gasp, you don’t know how to do this on every single computer, print and OS option out there? Fo shame! 😁).
Lol, I would have posted universal instructions if I could have!
I was wondering if this was possible after flipping through the work woman’s guide. Thank you for sharing this awesome method. Going to try now.
Thank you for showing the how to print that it helps : )
I don't know if someone has already said this but preview on Mac allows for you to set the size of the image in inches and it will stretch it to that size.
This is bloody brilliant.
This is still an amazing tutorial. I have a couple of Janet Aranalds ones. I want to print off.b
Pixlr is a good photo editor that is free. I have used it for a long time for regular photo editing
Brilliant! This worked amazingly and perfectly! You are awesome!
You're a genius! Can you explain how you determined the right size of scaling according to your own measurements? Is it by comparing the inches on the grid to your own measurements?
So you decided to make these stays? I remember you posted about being undecided between models from different periods a while ago.
So exciting, I voted for them, they are very beautiful! Can’t wait to see the result.
And I love the ginormous polkadots btw, what an unusual fabric 👍
Yep, that's the plan!
I love the giant polka-dots too, they are so fun!
This video is sooooooo helpful really appreciate it, but could you do a follow on video where you do something with sleeves that you do this process to and adjust the pattern after you print it out to something you or whoever you make it for can wear?
I will certainly be doing another video where I resize this pattern to be a little bigger and hopefully fit me better! Hopefully that will help you figure out how to apply the same process to sleeves, or any other garment you make!
Omg That is pure magic!! Thank you!
You are welcome, thank you for commenting! :D
This is so helpful!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for making this, this was incredibly helpful!
Very clever.
I'm a bit late to the game, but I loved this tutorial! Even though I've done it before, it was still helpful to see a different way than I did (on Photoshop a few years ago when I was "stealing" the school's copy to do my project). I have a question though, which is, have you ever done anything like this, but from an old pattern with no grid marks? I'm attempting that now from some old copies of fashion magazines, and it's proving more difficult than I thought going into it. I'm assuming that there's a trick that I'm missing! 😁
I have not tried that, but it shouldn't be too different in theory. I would print it out at 100% size and measure the result to see if it's close to the right measurements for you. Adjust the image as needed from there.
Awesome. You’re a genius! Thank you so much for this. 😊
Brilliant!
Oh man, thanks for this! Will be using tomorrow. :-)
If you are using photoshop, you can create a project with the right dimensions and then import the document, so if you could the grid first and know that you need 35 inches across, you can create it at that size.
There is a free scanner app for android phones (and possibly iphone, I don't have one so I don't know) called CamScanner! It's what I use for book patterns, and also for scanning extant garments by laying them out on a grid-printed dropcloth. It's designed to find, say, the corners of a page, and turn them into a proper rectangle. Also, GIMP is a free photoshop substitute.
Ooo, that app sounds cool! I'll have to check it out, thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
Love this. Thank you!
With the new iPhone update you can also go in your notes and use scan 🥰
omg this is super helpful thanks so much!!
I suggest www.paint.net as it's free & closest to photoshop per a computer graphics artist I know. BTW you would have the ability to separate the pattern pieces onto separate images without distorting if you choose as well as change to black/white and to sharpen if helpful for some of the finer details.
Be sure you use paint.NET, otherwise it takes you to warrenpaint.com
Thanks!
This is magic :D
Genius! Thank youu 😍😍😍💜💜
runs out and buys 2 reams of paper and more ink thank you I have been looking for a way to do this and kept running in to the fit to page issue
If you don't have a scanner there are lots of free scanner apps. Mine is called TinyScanner. It just let's you jump strait to MSPaint.
I recently came across your videos and I love them! A couple of questions-where did you find your dress form, and how well did your corset support you when you wore if for a week ( and didn't die!)? Thanks!
When scaling up a pattern and making sure it fits you, where should the waist, hip, and bust of the stays land on my person? Is it just wherever feels the most comfortable? Or, are there specific guidelines to follow?
You're amazing (:
You should try using Paint(dot)net it's sort of like a bootleg Photoshop
Thank you for that! Maybe it will be a good alternative to picmonkey!
And it's free too! 💖
I need to try this method. I’ve started a laborious process of eye-balling books with those grids and trying to plot them out using a sharpie on parchment paper taped to a grid cutting board to try and make a pair 1810 and 1890’s corsets (cause why do one at a time 🙄). This would save some initial time! Anyone know if there’s a handy program to do this on a Chromebook?
Great video! Now how do I increase/decrease the actual pattern to fit myself or a client?
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great Video. But idk where you have the measurments?
This is great, but unfortunately, my pattern don't have a grid :'( just the measurements of each section but I can't find a way to resize it properly 💔
How do you know how large your pattern has to be? And for what book does the pattern come from?
I measured the grid in the book, it said showed that the waist was a certain measurement, I know that my waist is a different measurement. I found the difference between the two (in percentage) and scaled the whole pattern up by that percentage, so that the pattern was then my size. If you aren't quite sure how to do that, then I recommend just playing around, scaling up a single pattern piece randomly and printing a single test page to see if it looks like it's correct.
The book is Patterns of Fashion 5, I think there's link in the description box too!
Could you use a similar method to scale up say, a child pattern to adult? Or a regular to a plus size?
yup.
hello people in the comments (or morgan if you ever read this!) i need some help and hopefully one of you can help me 😅 i’ve recently gotten into making historical costumes, and decided to try one of these books and followed this to get my pattern. i printed, assembled and cut the pattern, and then cut it in some muslin (since i’m just doing this for practice ahah) buuuuuuuut... the seams don’t line up 😭 like... at all :( i don’t know if i did something wrong or if it is normal for these kind of patterns (as i said, this is my first time doing these kind of things). for reference, i’m using the bodice from PoF1 on page 39.
thanks to anyone who took the time to read this!
Any recommendations for if you do not own a dress form? It's not in the budget at the moment :(
You don't need a dressform for this project, I just pinned it on at the end to show everyone what it looks like.
But if you would still like a form for draping, then my top recommendations would be to haunt your local thrift stores, Craigslist, and FB market place, in the hopes that you will get lucky with finding a form close to your size. You can even set up alerts to notify you if a listing is posted!
You can also try making your own with lots of tape and extra helping hands!
@@MorganDonner Thanks Morgan! I will look around!
Windows...10? Well, this is a history channel...😉
Although who am I to tease, I certainly couldn’t do this without step by step instructions, lol...
Oh no, is Windows 10 already out of date?! Sorry, I thought it was the current os!
No, actually I got that wrong.
Oh damn. Just home from having dinner and (it seems) a glass of wine too much. Please disregard my comment. 😂
No worries! I was just very confused for a moment there!
how exactly do you come out to have a picture that has measurements over 30 inches? Mine are always under 10, often evern under 5 inches. Which makes it impossible to scale them up with paint, as it only allows 500%.
Any idea what the title is of Bernadette's video? That link no longer works
She set the video to private - not sure why, though!
I’ve downloaded so many apps to try and enlarge some vintage patterns, i’m absolutely useless! tried a few that people said works and can i do it? resounding no
What if the pattern you are trying to scale up doesn't have the grid in the background? Or in other words you lack information on what scale the original pattern was?
Thank you for making plain English tutorials, are there any 16th century projects coming up?
Next up is a bit of mid 17th century fun, then a bit of 14th, so I've got a sort of 16th century sandwich going on 😜
(But eventually, I will! It's my favorite period!)
try “affinity photo” as a photo editor.
Do you want to do a collaboration? I design something and you sew it?
how do you know the right dimensions?