Last weekend, I went to Bear Lake and had a fabulous time
with my friends. Unfortunately, I got a bad sunburn, so I haven’t been
mobile enough to work on my Wonder Woman costume. I also saw the new Star Trek
movie, and decided I needed a new Starfleet uniform for SL Comic Con in September.
There are many patterns available online, including two out
of print patterns from Simplicity (one for the Original Series, and one for the
Next Generation). There are also scans of patterns from the Starfleet Technical
Manual available for free online (but only in
one size). Since free is my favorite price, I downloaded the Officer’s uniform
version of the duty uniform, loaded it into Illustrator, and started playing.
The above pattern pieces were shrinked to fit on a sheet of
book paper. The scale was included, so the first thing I did was use Illustrator to blow it back up to 1:1 real-size.
I traced paths around each pattern piece, using inspiration from a tutorial posted on RalphPink.com, released all the guides so I could play with line color and width, copied the whole thing into a new document consisting of 49 US letter-sized art boards, and printed the pattern pieces. I've included a pdf copy here for anyone else to use.
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My next step is to cut out and tape together the pattern pieces, write out the finished garment measurements, then grade the pattern out to my size. But, since my sunburn is finally starting to heal, this project will have to go back into my sewing queue.
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