I have no pants!

[bladespark]

I scoured the net, and finally found a site with a step by step thingy for drafting the pattern for a pair of pants.

One of the steps? "Lay the hip-length sloper pattern against like AB so that the lower corner touches point C, and trace from the waist line down." So in other words, I need their hip-length sloper pattern. Okay, find, I go to where they show how to make that, and it starts, "Begin with waist-length sloper pattern..." I already have one of those! I just spent ages making one, but it's different and won't line up properly with theirs! And after all that effort I'm not making it over!

I really need a pants drafting pattern that just... drafts pants! No bodice slopers involved, just plain pants! And the sad thing is that last time I went looking for a bodice pattern, I found a pants pattern! But now that I need pants, they are nowhere to be found.

Very irksome.

Comments

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

Dude. Do you have a favorite pair of pants? Just take that apart at the seams, trace the exact shape seams and all onto other cloth, and then sew back up.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

These are not pants for me. These are not pants for any specific person. I need a drafting method because that way I can make pants to measurements for customers on line. Your suggestion would be excellent if this was just a once-off thing, but I make a lot of suits for a lot of different people, and to do it this way, everybody who ordered a fursuit from me would have to have to send me a pair of their pants!

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

Oh. I thought you were talking about your personal collection, like you're running low on pairs of pants because others have worn out, shrunk, or you don't like them or something.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

He hehe. Nah. I wouldn't bother to sew pants for myself, it's way more cost effective to just get 'em at the DI/Goodwill whatever.