So, I’ve been working on a pair of Unoa sized jeans, and they have proven to be very frustrating. I am using the Unoa jeans pattern in Dolly Dolly 6 (The coordinate recipe thing). Anyway the instructions have you doing the waistband in a rather strange and fanciful way which I am still trying to wrap my head around. I gave up on trying to do the fly their way and just came up with my own way, which in the end made the waistband pattern piece too short, so I had to cut a new, longer one. My other issues with the jeans right now is that they are a little bit too big. I know that the Unoa dolls measurements are just a tiny bit bigger than the AE minis, so apparently that single centimeter in the hips matters just enough. :p
I really, really hate sewing jeans to be honest. I would much rather just buy them, but alas I lack the funds. Maybe I would like sewing jeans better if I had more practice with them so I could just belt them out like I do shirts. It would also probably help if I liked the material I was working with a little more. I picked the pale jean material up because it was on the remnants rack and the remnants were 50% off that day. Oh well, I should probably get back to work on these so I can actually finish them sometime this century. :p
Hi,
I just want to highlight this “I know that the Unoa dolls measurements are just a tiny bit bigger than the AE minis, so apparently that single centimeter in the hips matters just enough. :p”
Thank’s for mentioning this (^.^)
I sew for real human size as well. a few cm even 0,5cm can have high impact because we times them with 2 or 4 (2 sides)…
Doll 1/4 –> it’s like human body, too, ‘scaled’ to 1/4. Even for 0,2mm extra can give a high impact (^o^). I sew a simple bustier about 2 days ago. Before that, it was ok to sew like this but this latest project, I didn’t mark it precisely…0.1-0,2mm extra on each side…the bustier fell off (^O^)””.
I rechecked my 2nd bustier pattern to the 1st, and they both are same. I rechecked my project (measured it) then aha!…ok…I sew it again…I marked it carefully and tried it on my bjd before finishing off everything…it was ok…and it was from the same pattern, the second bustier pattern (^o^)
0.5cm-1cm extra in human clothing –> (more or less) 0.125-0,25 extra in doll cloth. I made 0,2 extra on the front and about 1 mm on the back…so in human clothing is about 0.8*2 + 0.4*2 = 2.4…in real human clothing, yes, it can fall off (bustier without shoulder string)…I make bustier, too…so i know…even my sewing teacher kept repeating,”it’s gotta be fit! it’s gotta be fit! if it’s not, it will fall off and look ugly!”