 about things that I get on the channel and that is fit. I am working on simplicity one two five three little oldie but goodie this is I don't know five or so years old but it is just a basic woven tank you make it out of drapey fabrics you know pretty straightforward there's like a jillion different patterns like this so I thought it would be a good one to talk about fit with you guys. I'm making VC and then the first thing that I do with all the patterns is I use my very own fast fit worksheet and this is just a system that I have developed it's available on my website the worksheet and instructions on how to use it and it basically just sort of analyzes the patterns measurements the finished garment measurements my measurements the ease that the pattern the pattern designer is hoping for you to achieve and kind of analyzes all of that and spits out a size and kind of what alterations you need to make the fast fits system is really great for assessing circumference so bust waist and hip and you can see that on this one here I cut a size 16 graded out to a 20 and then based on the worksheet determined I needed to add an additional four inches to the hip so I just added a one inch little wedge created out one inch on both side seams and that'll give me the four inches that I need so once I have that done and I have my pattern pieces all cut out I will drape them on my ditto form I've talked to you guys about the ditto form a little bit this is basically an exact replica of my body I had my body scanned on a 3D scanner they applied everything that that told them to a dress form design this dress form like exact to my body even like the discrepancy in one of my boobs is bigger than the other one that's in here if you have a lower shoulder on one side than the other side they would find that as well you know my belly protrusion you know my back they really do get it all so I know that whatever I am draping on the ditto form I am pretty much like draping on myself it's awesome so there's obviously always a ton to analyze and I don't want to completely overwhelm you guys by putting all of the information in one video so in this video we're specifically talk about the location of the bust waist and hip line and how that measures up to my body and in the adjustments that you can make accordingly so if you can see now that I've got this on my dress form it's inside out so it is a little bit hard for you guys to see but the bust line is right here and that perfectly lines up with the bust line on my ditto form it is going across the apex of my bust exactly where it should be and that completely matches up with the bust line good to go there right so then we want to move down to the waistline and you can see that the waistline is marked on the pattern and it is right here all the way down here this is my waistline my natural waist so either I am short-waisted or this pattern is very long-waisted however you want to look at it and then we can finally come and look at the hem the hem is hitting right well this has got to be turned up there's a 5 eighth inch hem allowance so we can turn that up and you will see that this is going to hit right above my low hip so when it comes to a top like this where the hip is not marked kind of where you want the hem to hit you is going to serve as your hip marking this is a top that I plan on wearing with you know both untucked and tucked so I do want to make sure that this hits at a place that I like so some things to contend with here one is because my bust is in the right place it's not an issue of the shoulder being too high or too low you can also see that up here on the neckline everything looks really great it's not too high not too low it's hitting at a really comfortable place so I think from the shoulder down we're doing pretty good through the bust it's just when we get to the hip where we have a bit of an issue so we're gonna bring the hip up and this is exactly how I would do it even if I weren't filming myself I would take all of the pins out of the front leaving the back intact I would fold it along the hip line and then I would bring that hip line up to my exact hip line and I will keep everything along the center front that full line the line will still continue to be straight all the way down to the hem and you can see that I'm gonna end up taking out probably close to two inches okay so once I take out what I need to for the waist and I pull that waistline up to my natural waist now I am reassessing the hip right so the hip is gonna come down here and now it's actually going to hit closer to my I don't know it's not totally my high hip this is my hip bone right here like the ditto form really gets every single looking grainy of your body it's kind of crazy so that is my high hip yeah the pattern is now going to end right at my high hip so I need to decide if that's something that I want or if I want to add what I took out of here back to the hem and of course at the top like this it's not that big of a deal but which is why I wanted to use it because I thought it'd be a great illustration if you were working with something that had a waist seam you wouldn't just want to take it off the hem you would want to make sure that your waist line hits exactly where the pattern designer wants it to and that's what this process is going to allow me to do it's going to get the waist seam up high that means it's gonna have a really nice natural curve on the side seam so this will prevent that from happening and then it'll allow me to decide you know it'll pull up the hem obviously and then I can decide if I want to add more length to that or not all right you guys there you have it that would be the first next step that I would take when it comes to fitting this particular pattern fast fit worksheet then I would drape it on my ditto form compare the patterns bust waist and hip lines to my body's bust waist and hip lines which is obviously so easy to do whenever you have a dress form that is a carbon copy of your own body so now I feel confident cutting this out knowing that all of the horizontal placements are in the right place as well as having a really great circumference I'm gonna be back to talk to you guys more about fitting I do want to add a lot more of those videos to the channel we'll talk about armsides we'll talk about shoulders we'll talk about the backs of patterns and how to make sure those are you know properly aligned with your body and if this has inspired you to look into getting a ditto form for yourself I do highly recommend them it makes this process so much easier especially if you're alone like me check the description box I'll have a link to where you can learn more information about upcoming scans and how you can do them remotely possibly and of course you know how to get your ditto form so that is gonna do it for me today me and Ellen that's the name of my ditto form and we are gonna go get to work and cutting out this cute little simplicity top you'll see it here shortly thanks so much for watching you guys bye