Question about bias cut tartan waistcoats.

[Steve Ashton]

One of the best ways is to go to your local fabric store and find a vest pattern in your size. If you look on the package it will tell you how much fabric you will need. It will usually specify the amount if on the grain and if an the bias.

[MacGuffin]

Dear Steve,

Thank you for the wonderful advice.
I'll be sure to do that next time I hit up the local fabric store.

I'm very optimistic about this future project.
But will be sure to practice before tackling the job.

I greatly appreciate your help.

[Tarheel]

Good point on the darts with tartan Todd. The lower photo, with the dart in the tartan, is well placed and enhancing the entire look. Fine job.

Concave cuts in the side stitching may be a way to go in tapering a vest with a bias pattern and one center dart in the back where two panels meet. I imagine clothes more often than I sew fabric and can see the need to practice with other cloth before I committed to the final vest.

[Barb T]

REALLY NICE and terrific advice!!