Understanding Sewing Pattern Pieces

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Terri Turco with Expert Village and today what we're doing is we're showing you how to make something from a fabric pattern, really deciphering what that pattern is saying to you, how to read the instructions to lay that pattern out, and how to prep that pattern so you get the best fit possible. Well, we've navigated our way to the inside of the envelope and now the grand, grand time to open the actual pattern itself. Now when you've got a pattern it comes in this enormous tissue paper and it kind of is like a color by number kind of thing without the colors. It's got all these different numbers with pattern pieces on it. And for the sake of time because I don't want to bore you terribly, I've decided to cut out the two pattern pieces that we need which are pattern pieces uno and dos, see I am bilingual. Pieces one and two. Now what's really important when we are looking at these pattern pieces is something I want to show you that the pattern companies have been doing for about the last five years. They are into something called multi-sizing. Back in the day you use to be able to buy a pattern that was a size six or a size eight or a size ten. Well, these days it's size 6,8,10 in one pattern and these lines that we are going to show you con be really confusing for some people because they are cutting along a size six and then there's another line eight and a ten and they get confused."