Is there a way to make a sewing pattern smaller?

Question

I in a hast bought a McCalls pattern w/o paying attention to the size. It was on clearance no refund type of sale...so I am wondering if there is an easy way to make it smaller it's for an XL/XXL and I need to make it for at least a Medium.
Thanks! =)

Answer 1

Are you adventurous? Try this. Take a pair of pants shirts whatever you are making and compare the pieces to the pieces in the pattern. Use newspaper to make a mock pattern pinning together and using the other pattern pieces as a guide. Remember you can always go smaller and use a basting stitch with a small needle hand seweing and using a very contrasting thread. Try the base item on. Adjust as necessary. Try this if you absolutely love this item. If not sell it on e bay for a dollar more than the purchase price plus shipping and handling. That way it's not a total lost.

Answer 2

In general, it's 1/4" difference on each seam per size. It depends on the difficulty of the pattern. If it's pants it's more difficult since the rise is crucial to proper fit. On a simple garment with few seams and a looser fit you can probably do it. I've enlarged a pattern for someone and gone up 4 sizes by doing this and it was a fitted vest with 8 gores but it came out great. It's tedious but doable.

Answer 3

Drip is proper that it does not particularly paintings that manner, however in the event you print it at one more scale, you'll mainly get it to paintings. For illustration, alternatively of printing it at one hundred% of the normal measurement, bump it as much as a hundred twenty five%....although you may also desire a better measurement paper for this as it is made especially for the scale that the sample says to print it on. If you attempt to separately make the portions better, I can close to assurance it may not pop out proper.

Answer 4

You can use a piece of clothing that you can well afford to take apart and cut the pattern down to fit that . That worked okay for me but it was for a child's dress.

Answer 5

find a sizing chart and see what the measurements are for each size and compare that to the pattern

Answer 6

it would be way easier to go back and get the right size, thats a lot of redrafting to do.