'I have enlarged small-scale patterns from books many different ways, often depending on both the specific pattern and what resources I have available to me at the time. I\'ve hand drawn a pattern on large sheets of paper, I\'ve used projectors to scale things up so I can trace them, and today I\'ll show you how to print a pattern on a standard printer. 00:01:31 - Instruction begins If you don\'t have time to watch a video, here are the instructions: 1. Take a picture of the small-scale pattern. Save it on your computer. 2. Brighten your image to reduce how much printer ink it uses. 3. Open in Paint, use File, then Preferences to check the current image size in inches. 4. Adjust as needed with Resize until the image is at the correct measurements. 5. Print, but make sure to remove anything that says \"Scale to paper\", \"Fit to page\" or similar. You want it to print at 100% of its true size. 6. Tape all your papers together. 7. You have a life-size pattern now! You\'ll still need to do some adjustments to the pattern, like adding seam allowance and making things sized to your own body, but this should give you a good starting point! Check out Bernadette Banner\'s video for another pattern scaling method: https://youtu.be/Voe8lQFjiUM The book used in this video is Patterns of Fashion 5, which is hella awesome, and you should buy a copy if you have any interest in pre-Victorian corsetry: https://shop.theschoolofhistoricaldress.org.uk/product/patterns-of-fashion-5-the-content-cut-construction-and-context-of-bodies-stays-hoops-and-rumps-c-1595-1795/ The photo editing site I used, PicMonkey, can be found at picmonkey.com (NOT FREE, I was mistaken when I said so in the video, very sorry!) The lazy percentage calculator was found at https://percentagecalculator.net/ Apologies to my patron Whitney D, your name was barely visible at the end of the video! You are super awesome, thank you for being my Patreon supporter! -------- ★Follow me! ★ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MorganDonner Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MorganDonnersParty Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MorganDonnersSewing Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/morgandonner/ My (mostly) Costuming blog: http://www.MorganDonner.com ★★★ - Products Used in This Video - ★★★ *All Amazon links below are Affiliate links. No extra cost to you, but they send me a few cents if you find a product you\'d like to purchase. Camera: http://amzn.to/2BDrAKn Favorite Lens (good for low-light!): http://amzn.to/2GueNh3 Standard printing paper: (I am not posting link for that, I\'m sure you can figure it out).'
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