 Hi you guys, it's Lindsay and I am back for part 3 of our how to sew a commercial sewing pattern video series As you know in our first video we talked about the pattern envelope in the second video We talked about the instruction booklet and today we're actually going to get out some pattern pieces Look at some tissue paper and I'm going to explain to you a little bit about the information that's there So let's jump right in So here's our trusty buttock 5 4 6 6 the pattern that we are sewing with for this entire series When you open up the pattern envelope itself, you're going to find the instruction booklet And then you're going to find a bunch of pieces of tissue paper all folded up like this and You are going to open it up. Obviously It's very very large lots of Pieces I think this one has Yeah, it looks like just two sheets. So you can see on here how Their pattern pieces themselves are outlined in blue and they're all numbered So what I'm going to do to try and make this a little bit more manageable is I'm going to cut out one of the pieces So that we can just look at one individual piece. So give me one sec some information that you can find right smack dab in the middle of the Whole pattern piece is the pattern piece number. Remember last week We notated which pattern pieces we were going to need to cut out based on our version of the pattern that we would be making So this is how you know what that is This tells you that it's the front kind of reinforcing the pattern number And this tells you a B and C tells you the version of the skirt that you're working on So again, all of three of these things are kind of checks and balances Just so you know, you're using the right pattern piece you'll remember when we were talking about the pattern instruction booklet that it Notated some information about this little Icon here kind of like a bull's-eye the circuit the circle with the cross through it And that notates exactly where the garment will hit your waistline or where it should hit your waistline and Anytime you see the the bull's-eye looking thing You also know that they are going to provide you with some measurements now unlike the measurements that were on the envelope or on the pattern instruction booklet these are Finished garment sizes. So this is not including seam allowances not including darts not including anything that needed to be taken out these are the garment finished sizes for Each of the sizes of the pattern So you know that if you are let's say 29 inches in your waist a size 10 is going to be too small There's not going to be enough ease in there or really enough fabric at all Even size 12 might be kind of tight depending on what kind of fabric you're using So it's even if the pattern an envelope told you to make a size 12 You can kind of cross-reference with this information here because in each pattern ease is built in and sometimes There's more ease like in a pleated skirt for example In the hip there will be inches and inches of ease because it's a more full skirt But in a pencil skirt like this one is going to be kind of fitted to your body and mostly always with the waistline Unless it's like a shift dress or something your the finished garment measurements are going to be pretty close to what? Your actual measurements are so always err on the side of caution Like I've said before it's easier to take a garment in than it is to let it garment out But at least you'll know from this thing from this Information here if you're on the right track or not and they'll also have them like down here You'll see there's another one and that's for your hip measurement so traditionally you'll find them for the bust for the hip and for the waist and I've Sometimes seen them for the bicep as well. This is what a dart looks like on a sewing pattern You can see here that basically what you're going to do is transfer these markings to your fabric and then whenever you're sewing your garment All of this will be pinched out and Fold it over so none of that will be in your finished garment these little things here are called notches and notches are Critical to me they really can make or break your experience with sewing if you're going to Transfer that marking to your fabric again. I will tell you more about that next week Notches also look like this where there's like double peaks and sometimes there's even triple peaks so kind of all the same idea, but Just one two or three depending on the area of the garment that you're working on You'll have your sizes here and each size Cut line has a different kind of width of the dash So that helps you as you go along you can see kind of up here in the waistline how they all kind of run together So you just want to try and stay as close to your cut line as possible You can see that size 10 goes up to this little point here So you'll want to make sure that you you cut that exactly And then it'll also tell you to cut like how many pieces to cut This says cut one piece on the fold Again, we'll go into this in a little bit more detail next week, but it also tells you right here on the side That this is the fold line. That's upside down that this is the full line center front on Fold so when you go to place this on your fabric You're going to place this whole line on the fold of your fabric and you're only going to cut out one because when you cut something on the fold You cut out one of them and then when you open it up you have double the size So that although this doesn't look like this would fit anyone But like maybe a toddler when you actually place it on the fold and cut it You will have something twice as big as this So this is the back pattern piece for those same skirt a b and c and this one tells you that you need to cut Two of them and that's because the back of the skirt actually has a seam going up the center of the back So you'll see here. It'll tell you center back and that's your seam line This is 5 8 inches difference because that's the seam allowance in this pattern But it's just one long cut line instead of the other one and instead of the front piece that had a fold There this one doesn't have that little arrow anywhere. It just has one long cut line Now it does have this circle and I know just from experience. This is the marking for where the zipper stops But you but you need to kind of point these out in your mind Or even highlight them or whatever you need to do to remember that they are there So you don't forget to transfer them to your fabric whenever we get that out next There's also some things that you need to do to your pattern pieces before You lay them all out on your fabric a lot of people skip doing this But I think that it's really important for you to press your pattern pieces Before you cut them because you can see that there are some folds and some wrinkles and all of that kind of adds up You know and whenever you are sewing it is to the one eighth of an inch Sometimes that something can be off and that can that can be made up in these folds here So it's really important that you get out your iron put it on a low heat setting with no steam and just press them out It's very thin tissue. It presses out really easily and it'll make your cutting lines and your your finished garment that much nicer Here is another pattern piece. This one is for Version a it's the back facing piece number four Show you that here and I wanted to show you this because In addition to telling you how much fabric to cut out like the skirt front and the skirt back did it also tells You how much interfacing you need to cut out and so for this pattern piece You would cut out two pieces from your fabric, but you'll also cut out two pieces of your interfacing as well Also on here is something called a grain line Probably be easier for us to discuss grain line next week when we have some fabric out but grain line really is the the part of your fabric that runs parallel to the selvedge and so this just tells you that you know This pattern piece kind of looks like a little curved box here But and you don't just want to throw it on your fabric and cut it out because the grain line will help you Find the stretch of the fabric and especially in the skirt if you're sitting down or you know moving around you need for it To have some stretch so it would tell you which which direction to lay the piece So that you get the most out of the stretch that's in the fabric But like I said, we can probably talk about that some more next week. Alright you guys That's all the information that I have about the actual pattern pieces themselves Stay tuned next week where we will actually lay these pieces out on some fabric and cut them out In the meantime though, don't forget to enter our big giveaway Nicole's pattern company is giving away three patterns All you have to do is subscribe to our channel Subscribe to their channel and there was a secret word hidden in this video somewhere on next week's video You'll need to have all four secret words and you just place them in the comments And we'll pick one of you guys to be our big winner. So thanks so much for watching. I will see you next week