Tutorial for making a simple shirt (test): Difference between revisions

[https://static.miraheze.org/valentinaprojectwiki/5/50/Tutorial_Simple_Shirt.pdf Tutorial as pdf]<div style="text-align:center;">'''How to make a pattern for a simple shirt with Valentina / Seamly2D'''</div>

 

 

In this tutorial you will learn how to use the pattern-making software Valentina / Seamly2D to create a pattern for a shirt. I focus on the usage of Valentina / Seamly2D; I assume that you al­ready know how to make and alter patterns on paper and how to use the PC generally. Still this tutorial is no manual that says “this button does this” and “that button is used for that”; only the buttons we need to create our shirt are explained. A manual you can find here: https://static.miraheze.org/valentinaprojectwiki/8/86/Valentina_EBOOK-8-24-17.pdf

You can create patterns in Valentina / Seamly2D with all kind of construction systems. Valentina / Seamly2D is like your ruler, circle, eraser, calculator and paper, just on your pc. For the tutorial I'd suggest you to stick with the construction I did just to learn how to deal with Valentina / Seamly2D; later on you can easily transfer it to your system. For the names of the measurements I took the ones Valentina / Seamly2D provides. If you alter measurements because you don't like the ones of Mme. Skirt, you might have to smooth the curves again.

 

 

* Valentina / Seamly2D installed and working on your PC

 

__FORCETOC__

 

 

When you open Valentina / Seamly2D, your screen will look like that:

 

[[File:Startbildschirm.png|thumb]]

 

After you have typed in the name and confirmed with ok, the screen will have changed a little bit:

 

[[Image:Startbildschirm_2.png|thumb]]The red point is the first point of your drawing. Valentina / Seamly2D gives them a name (label); you can change the label if you need in the field “point label” on the right side besides the screen. You also can change the position of the point here; x goes right, y down.

 

 

Because I need to tile my patterns, as I only have a printer that can print A4, I put a reference square on my patterns. If you have a plotter and are able to print out large files, you don't need to do that. If you sell patterns or have only a small printer I think it is a good habit to print out the reference square, just to make sure the pattern is printed right.

Btw, now is a really good time to save for the first time. I called my file “Tutorial_Shirt”.

 

 

Before you draw your actual pattern, it is a good idea to feed Valentina / Seamly2D with the measurements you need. Theoretically you could draw the lines and put the number in every time. As you use some of the measurements and other numbers over and over again, that wouldn't be a good idea, though. So we work with measurements and variables.

''Name'' is a short name to work with in formulas, ''formula'' in this case is the actual measurement, ''full name ''is a human-understandable name, so that you don't get lost in cryptic letters and in ''description'' you can give further explanations, like “Distance waist to hip” or “front length, measured from 7. vertebra”.

 

[[Image:Rock_NewTape_4.png|thumb]]On the second tab, “Information”, you may add infos like customer name, that can come in handy for handling the measurements and patterns:

 

 

 

|- style="border:0.05pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;"

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! align=center style="background-color:#ffffcc;border-top:none;border-bottom:0.05pt solid #000000;border-left:0.05pt solid #000000;border-right:none;padding:0.097cm;" | Name

 

 

|- style="background-color:#e6e6ff;border:0.05pt solid #000000;padding:0.097cm;"

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! align=center style="background-color:#e6e6ff;border-top:none;border-bottom:0.05pt solid #000000;border-left:0.05pt solid #000000;border-right:none;padding:0.097cm;" | Name

Now we can go to the next step – the frame. For this we make a new pattern piece.

 

 

There is some confusion about the names in Valentina / Seamly2D at the moment. What I would call “pattern piece” is there called “detail”. It consists of the pattern piece including all the details you don't add at drawing, like seamlines, labels, passmarks and so on. In one “pattern piece” can be two “details”, like back and front of a shirt.

 

 

The frame starts out pretty much as you did with the reference square. There are more than one ways to accomplish this task, so don't worry if your's is different from mine. My way in the tutorial was:# Putting B into a convenient place: x = 60, y = 2 as we work from right to left

This is our shoulder. For the armhole we need a bit more framing:# Point of x and y of two other points with B4, B, => B8

# Point at a Distance along line B4, B8, length CurrentLength/4 => B9

# Point of x and y of two other points with B3, B2 => B11

 

<div style="color:#999999;">It might be necessary to smooth the curves again if you use different measurements. Play with the lengths and angles, typed in or grab the handles on the nodes. Or you read and apply the Kolson-Method ;) I just wanted to keep it simple in the beginning.</div>

 

 

== The first details – reference and back ==

It is time to make the first details. You select the '''“detail”'''-tool (also called '''“seam-allowance-tool”''') and click all the points and curves you want to have in your pattern piece – ehem, detail. You ''musst'' do that counterclockwise, else Valentina / Seamly2D will be unhappy an the detail won't work. Also, if a curve has the arrows converse to the direction you are choosing the nodes it won't work. Press “shift” in that case, that will reverse the curve. After you have selected all points and curves, press “enter”. Don't press the first point you choose a second time, stop on the curve or point previous to the first choosen point.

 

 

I wanted so see B10 because I'll need it later on. But if you choose a point on a curve, you have to choose the curve again, else Valentina / Seamly2D will only take the part before the curve.

 

If you succeed the window with the path will pop up. Right now you can only press ok (and pat yourself on the shoulder, you've done a lot work!)

 

When you've done that, you can go to the '''details-mode'''. The screen should look like this then: