PDF Sewing Patterns: Best way to print and assemble

[@LineOfSelvage]

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[@trudi1962]

I'm enjoying all your tutorial videos. Succinct, informative, and no waffle. 😊

[@LineOfSelvage]

Thank you, my goal is succinct and informative!

[@M_J_nan]

I think you just saved me a lot of headache! Thank you! I like your tutorials a lot. I'm interested how you have your sewing/cutting area set up. I'm just about to organize mine so I need examples of efficient way to go about it and internet seems more prone to show up pretty decorated sewing rooms. I hope/think you have a more practical approach :)

[@LineOfSelvage]

Thank you! My studio space occupies a long but narrow portion of my home garage. There's a photo of it on my Instagram, if you're interested (@lineofselvage). The space is not photogenic at all, and when filming I try to arrange the camera angles to show as little of it as possible! But in short there's a small table just for the sewing machine, where I swap in whatever machine I'm using at the moment, a folding cutting table that is usually two-thirds open, but I can wheel it out to open all the way when necessary, and finally an industrial sewing machine with its associated worktable. Nearby I also set up a folding table just to hold things while I work, and there are IKEA pegboards on the walls to hold tools such as scissors and rulers. In another corner of the garage is the ironing station, with ironing board along with a gravity-feed iron. It gets VERY crowded during filming with the video tripods and extra lighting equipment! The cutting table has a mount arm with a GoPro situated over the cutting surface, that I used to produce the time-lapse assembly sequence you see in this video.

[@julsbendandi9374]

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[@ellenmykkanen3865]

I always have problems with my test squares being off - even though I have scale at 100% and fit to size unchecked. How did you resolve the problem you noted in this video? I usually print from Adobe Acrobat and I'm not sure whether to tell the printer to use regular or borderless paper settings.

[@LineOfSelvage]

There's lots of ways to print PDF files, so in the video I give recipes for the support already built-in to your computer - that's Apple's Preview for Mac owners, and Microsoft Edge for Windows users. I've tested both examples shown in the video with my printer, so I suggest using one of those two applications (I'm not sure if you are using Mac or PC). In terms of regular vs. borderless, the pattern makers leave space for margins, so I would try regular before borderless.

[@rhonddalesley]

I don’t use Microsoft edge so I’ve no idea how it works. I do suggest to go into the page set up menu which is a little box to click on at the bottom of the big box of printer settings that comes on the main settings screen before you print (yours may be in a different place hope that makes sense lol) and check that it’s set to the right size for the paper you’re using and pattern you’re printing. There you have the option to change paper size, mine’s set to A4 and I’ve only come across one pattern company where that needs to be changed to US letter size even though I’m using A4 paper. Even though I rarely ever get an ‘off’ scale I always read the instructions provided by the pattern company because you never know, anyway, I’m trying to say is that yours may be set to the wrong paper size, just an idea 🤷🏻‍♀️