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Fixing Patterns and Fitting:
Pattern Adjustment:
This is checking your own list of the measurements with those
on the back of the pattern envelope and adjusting your paper pattern
accordingly.
 Multi-sized
patterns mean that the only adjustments you need to make to your
pattern prior to cutting out are the relevant lengths (Refer to
the Patterns ). Check
all your relevant measurements (back waist to hem length
for a skirt; underarm sleeve length for a jacket or shirt; and side
waist to hem length for trousers etc.)
and then compare these with the lengths, which are given
on the back of the pattern envelope, making a note of any necessary
adjustments. It's at this stage that you should alter your pattern,
referring to the given diagrams.
 If,
for example, you need to shorten
a jacket length you will need to do this to the jacket back,
front, and also the facing pieces. The pattern will give a line
to indicate where adjustments should be made to the length, but
use you judgment as well.
If you have a large addition to the
length of a flared skirt, divide that amount between the
marked line and the hemline.
In the case of a short sleeve,
divide it between the upper and the lower arm on all the relevant
pattern pieces.
You will gradually become used to those pattern adjustments which
apply specifically to you and which will apply in almost all the
clothes you make. You may, for example, always need to shorten either
a sleeve or a skirt.
Fitting Problems:
This is trying on the garment to discover the fitting problems,
if any, which are peculiar to you, for example, a hollow back, causing
wrinkles in a skirt. Fitting is essential, because some problems
will only become apparent when the pattern is made up in a fabric
and can only be adjusted to an individual figure at that stage.
You should also alter your pattern at this stage. This means going
back to the pattern to make the same alteration to the pattern that
you have already made to the fabric - so that the pattern is ready
for use when you want to use it again.
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