Tutorials & Techniques

How to shorten or lengthen a bottom pattern (pants, shorts and overalls)

If when reading the measurement chart attached to the pattern, your height is different from that indicated, then a modification of the leg length should be considered. Basic material to perfor...

How to shorten or lengthen a top pattern (jacket, dress and blouse)

For more details on methods A and B, refer to the article entitled "Basic techniques for shortening or lengthening a pattern." In the case of a fairly significant pattern extension, it is import...

Adapting a pattern in its height

Basic techniques for shortening or lengthening a pattern. The two methods presented below allow you to make a whole range of modifications, and this on any type of pattern. You will then be abl...

How to enlarge a pattern in a non-existent size

There is nothing more frustrating than realizing that a pattern is not offered in its own size. We will see here that solutions exist in order to enlarge the pattern in a reasoned way. Because be c...

How to navigate between different sizes of a pattern?

This manipulation is performed for people with a difference in size between the upper and lower body. We are talking in particular about a V or A silhouette, but many other cases are compatible wi...

How to adjust pants: crotch too loose or too tight?

Adjusting pants A crotch that is not properly drawn at the intersection with the crotch causes discomfort, both when the line is too high and when it is too low. A balance of lines is the guarant...

How to adjust pants: round belly

In general, there is no adjustment to be made if the stomach is flat, because the pattern is already adapted to this morphology. On the other hand, when it is rather rounded, the pants are uncomfo...

How to adjust pants: flat or strong buttocks

At the level of the buttocks two problems can be encountered: the buttocks are flat or on the contrary they are round. In both cases, discomfort is located at the back of the pants. But before tac...

Special case of the ZENITH blouse/dress pattern: Adapting a pattern to the chest: the darts on the shelf

This technique consists of making an enlargement of the volume at the chest level on a pattern constructed with several radius-shaped darts. It will be particularly useful for the Zenith top and d...

Adapting a pattern to the chest: princess seams and straps

Before modifying a pattern at the chest level, it is advisable to refer to the article “The basics of a chest transformation”. The technique explained in this tutorial allows you to enlarge the fr...