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August 5, 2014 at 12:24 AM #31614
the_professors_assistant
KeymasterHello, I m Silvia and I m new in the sewing world, but I found this website very useful, the videos are amazing!!!!
I’ve got a , maybe stupid, question:
How can a redraw a pattern, if I don’t have a printer at home and I cannot print it? Plus even if I print it in A 4 it won’t be the right scale right?
Any ideas? Or maybe there s a video also for it that I couldn’t find…
Thank you!!!!!Silvia
August 5, 2014 at 7:10 AM #31624the_professors_assistant
KeymasterIf you are looking to make a clone of an existing pattern, you can watch out tracing wheel video and it shows how to duplicate a paper pattern,
https://www.professorpincushion.com/professorpincushion/tracing-wheel/August 5, 2014 at 1:02 PM #31649the_professors_assistant
KeymasterHi, thanks for your reply.
That’s not exactly what’s mean…what I want is to know how I can draw on the paper (even before than the fabric) a PDF pattern that I ll download from this website, without a printer…is it possible?how can I get the right proportion?
Thank you!,,August 5, 2014 at 1:11 PM #31651the_professors_assistant
Keymasterok. You basically want to take one of our pdf patterns and copy it by hand without printing it. That seems like a lot of work. Easiest solution is to go to a thrift store and see if there is a $20 printer you can get. Go to the library, use their printer? Go to a kinkos and print it for a few cents a page.
If money is tight I can respect that. Technically, if you are viewing the pdf in acrobat, you would just need to view the zoom level at 100 percent. You could then put a piece of paper over the monitor and trace it. Im assuming you have a flat lcd monitor and a crt tube monitor which has curvature. I really don’t recommend tracing on your monitor because you could damage it, which will cost you more money than a cheap printer in the long run.
August 5, 2014 at 3:35 PM #31656the_professors_assistant
KeymasterThanks again for the kind reply, it’s Ok, I m sure I can print it at work, shall I print in normal A4 size?
I was just wondering if there were dimension so I could avoid using a printer.
Thanks again for the quick reply, you’re fantastic!!!!
SilviaAugust 5, 2014 at 3:42 PM #31657the_professors_assistant
Keymastertechnically A4 is 8.3″ X 11.7″. Letter size is best 8.5×11 (all printers can do this). I made all the patterns to have a .5″ margin from the edge. Just print without scaling the pattern in the print options of the printer and you should be just fine. All of the pieces to a pattern fit on 8.5×11 paper.
August 6, 2014 at 3:18 PM #31732the_professors_assistant
KeymasterPerfect ! Thank you very much for your help!!, I still need to do a lot of practice but I d like to try something a bit more challenging soon 😉
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