In case you lot missed yesterday's mail service. We are jumping right into the kids pattern-making serial today with the Front Bodice, but starting time I'one thousand going to show you the tools of the trade. I promise it is obvious that we volition exist using paper, pencils and a ruler, only there are a few other things that make pattern-making simpler.

The first (and also my favorite) helpful tool is a french curve. They come up in many different shapes and sizes, only the one you lot will need has the curved shape of an armhole.

The next helpful tool is called a hip curve and information technology's purpose is exactly what y'all'd recall. It is a ruler with the shape of a hip that enabled you to go the perfect curved line for pants and skirts. (I lost mine in one of the moves and have fabricated due with just my french bend, only it really is handy.)

Or, You could just get a combination ruler that is both the hip and the arm in one.

This Dritz ruler (from Joann's) is a straight edge, armhole, and hip curve all in one.

And then, now that we have all the necessary equipment assembled, let'due south make a bodice!

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If you are not using the chart and are taking the measurements directly from your kid, you volition need:

#four – Center Length – Measure from the center of the neckline (that footling dip in the collar bone) to the waist.

#v – Full Length – Mensurate from the side of the neck where it meets the shoulder direct down to the waist.

#6 – Shoulder Gradient – Measure from the exterior tip of the shoulder diagonal to the center front end of the waistline.

#7 – Side Length – Measure out from nether the arm (where an armhole would begin, not up in the armpit) straight down to the waistline

#viii – Shoulder Length – Measure from where the neck meets the shoulder across to the tip of the shoulder

#9 – Beyond Shoulder – Measure from the tip of ane shoulder across to the tip of the other.

#xi – Chest Arc – Measure out from under ane armpit (armhole signal from side length above) to the same signal under the other armpit

(I take decided to take pictures of each measurement then information technology is easier to understand, only haven't had an extra pair of hands around to help me out. In the mean time, if y'all have any questions, please send me a comment or east-mail and I'll practise my best to aid!)

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The diagram below is substantially a map of what we are going to make. Your finished bodice should wait exactly the aforementioned equally the ane below just with dissimilar measurements. Each line is marked with a letter of the alphabet which is referred to in the instructions. This way you lot know to connect betoken A to B and then B to Eastward, etc. So long as you plug the numbers from this chart into the proper place, everything should be pretty like shooting fish in a barrel. Only become one step at a time. Permit's get started! (Experience free to print out the diagram since it may exist easier than scrolling up and down on your computer screen.)

Pace one: Draw a vertical line A-B = Full Length + ane/16″ (#five on the chart)
Step 2: A-C = Beyond Shoulder (#nine)
Step 3: Square a curt line down from C
Step 4: B-D = Center Forepart length (#iv), minus three/8″
Stride 5: Foursquare a short line in from D
Stride half-dozen: B-E = Chest Arc (#11) + 1″
Stride 7: Square a short line up from E
Step 8: B-F = Shoulder Slope (#half dozen) + 1/8″ (The F bespeak should exist on the line coming down from indicate C.)
Step nine: F-Thousand = Shoulder Length (#8)
Stride 10: Square a line downwards from the FG line at indicate G
Step 11: B-H = two 1/2″
Pace 12: H-I = 3/4″
Pace 13: H-J = 3/8″
Stride 14: Square a line up from J equal to the Side Length (#7), minus 3/4″. Label this point K.
Step fifteen: Draw sprint legs from K-H and K-I
Pace 16: Due east-Fifty = 3/four″ Marker Fifty point
Step 17: Draw a slightly curved line from L-I
Step 18: L-One thousand = Side Length (#vii)
Step 19: Foursquare a short line out from Grand
Stride 20: F-Northward = two″
Step 21: Due north-O = 3/8″
Step 22: With your french curve touching D and G and falling 3/sixteen″ to the left of the G line, draw the neckline curve.
Pace 23: With your french curve touching F, O, and M, draw the armhole bend. (The curve may align with the brusk line just before touching signal M.

Did that make any sense? If information technology helps at all, this is what mine looks like.

And when yous cut it out and take information technology all cleaned up, it'll look like this…

Wow, We're half way to having a shirt! I know it is a lot of data, only if anything is confusing, please ship me an due east-mail and I'll assist withal I tin can. Tomorrow nosotros'll get to piece of work on the back bodice, which is really piece of cake once you lot've made the front end!

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