Breeches pattern and instructions

[mgabriel74]

Thanks, will do!


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[Sixes]

Just a quick question about something I've run into while working on my muslin: it seems there is a large difference in height between the front and (assembled) back pieces. Looking at the pattern svg in Inkscape, it's a roughly 4 inch difference (3 when taking into account the 5/8" seam allowance when the two back pieces are stitched together). Is this intentional? From the pictures in the tutorial, it looks like the top matches up, unlike what I've ended up with here:

I'm just going to continue to work on this draft as if it's supposed to be like this, but your input would be much appreciated.

[Larcwide]

Hey Sixes, I don't have easy access right now to the files I'm afraid, but the back pieces shouldn't be taller than the front at the side seams (which is where I think you are comparing?). Did you add seam allowance to the pattern pieces? I have a feeling that I may have exported the SVGs with the seam allowance included already, so if you added your own - the back pieces would end up with double the allowance where they join and end up being too long when combined - though even so, that would be about 2.5", not 4. I can take a look at my original files over the next couple of days and confirm the lengths match, and maybe do a new export without seam allowances baked in.

[Sixes]

1 hour ago, Larcwide said:

Hey Sixes, I don't have easy access right now to the files I'm afraid, but the back pieces shouldn't be taller than the front at the side seams (which is where I think you are comparing?). Did you add seam allowance to the pattern pieces? I have a feeling that I may have exported the SVGs with the seam allowance included already, so if you added your own - the back pieces would end up with double the allowance where they join and end up being too long when combined - though even so, that would be about 2.5", not 4. I can take a look at my original files over the next couple of days and confirm the lengths match, and maybe do a new export without seam allowances baked in.

I did not add my own seam allowance. I actually just went back to the original pattern, and looking at the eyelet facings, the one on the back is clearly taller than the one on the front:

 

I scaled the front piece up to 105% of its original size brought them even. It was also apparent that the front piece was a lot thinner that it was supposed to be, so I scaled it uniformly, not just vertically. I think this looks more correct:

 

As I'm writing this, I'm wondering if you included seam allowance on the back pieces but not the front piece? I have plenty of muslin left over, and haven't started on the other leg yet, so I can cut out another front piece with seam allowance added and see if that fixes the problem.

[Sixes]

Here's a better photo of my draft so far.

The difference in height is ~1" on the top and ~.5" on the bottom. It should be noted that I scaled the whole pattern down by 90% vertically since I am short, but kept the width the same.

[Sixes]

Okay, found the solution. The issue was in fact that seam allowance is not included for the front piece in the current pattern. I cut out another piece with seam allowance included and it works perfectly.

 

When adding seam allowance to the front piece, I basically offset each face by 5/8" except for the top edge of the eyelet facing, as you can see below.