GRADING BETWEEN SIZES

In this month’s workshop, Simply Sewing’s Senior Technical Editor, Roisin, shows us how to grade between sizes for an accurate fit.

When you take your measurements and find you’re three different sizes at the bust, waist and hips, it can be hard to know what to do. Cut the largest size and make do? Cut the smallest size and squeeze into it? As size charts vary from one pattern company to the next, you’ll find that you’re rarely the same size across brands and that your measurements usually fall across two or three sizes. It’s the same in the shops; it’s rare to pick up the first