the only pattern I use.
I had one. it was here somewhere.
The only traceable pattern I use is for a neckline on a serk. When I make serks or smokkrs, I usually just use a drawing of a cutting layout, a yard stick, and some chalk. But I know me, and without something to trace around, my necklines would be ugly and uneven and yeah no.
I had one. I lost it. I needed to make a new one.
but how?
I wasn’t particularly interested in starting from scratch; I really liked the one I had. So I decided to trace the neckline of a serk I made with the original pattern.
I used a piece of sketchbook paper.
I folded it, marked where the shoulder seam lies, and traced the edge with a pencil. I ended up doing it twice; the first version was a bit wider than it is when worn.
And also the back.
I pinned the paper into the neckline so that it wouldn’t shift when I flipped the serk over to trace the back. It came out... well, scroll down.
This is… not even.
I like the left side, though. Let’s fix this.
old tricks.
My mom used to make birthday cakes with these beautiful designs on them. She transferred the designs from paper onto the cakes by laying the paper down on the cake and pricking it with a pin. I took a leaf out of her book and used pricking to transfer the line I liked onto the side I didn’t care for.
I folded the outline in half, making sure that the seam markings were lined up, and grabbed a pin.
it worked a treat.
I connected the dots with a pen and cut it out, then taped it to a piece of quilting template plastic. I love this stuff. It makes great patterns… which is unsurprising, given its intended purpose.
this looks so much like the one I lost.
The shape is pretty much what I wanted, so at least my cunning plan actually worked.
Next up… actually using it. That should guarantee that I find the original.