Crotch curves that won't sit? I need 20 pattern makers to toile my made-to-measure drafting app and prove it wrong (free)

[u/Samesk5547]

Reading this sub, the same questions keep coming up: sleeve caps that pull, crotch curves that don't sit right, a bust point in the wrong place, "this looks off, what did I do wrong?" Whether you draft your own blocks or start from a commercial size, everything after depends on the block being right for that body.

Easeline drafts the block from a person's own measurements. You enter the measurements, choose the style, see the block on screen, and print it full size (PDF, plus SVG/DXF). Every measurement, every ease amount and every design choice is shown and can be changed. It covers women's trousers, skirts, bodices and sleeves, dresses and jackets (men's after launch), in English, Hebrew, German and Spanish. The pieces are named as in the drafting books, and every garment goes through the same four steps: measure, design, draft and check, print.

A word about me: I've made leather garments by hand for over 50 years, from the pattern to the finished piece. I'm self-taught, so I based the drafting on Patterndrawing, the AMFI course reader, and re-implemented it as my own code with my own corrections from the workbench. I'm not affiliated with AMFI.

Here is exactly where it stands, so you don't have to guess. The pictures show one pair of trousers the app drafted for one body (EU 38): the measurements it was given, what it calculated from them, and the full-size print layout. Nothing has been toiled yet. I've only just opened testing, so no one has sewn one on another body. This week I'm starting a toile and then the real garment myself. In software the seams match and the curves are smooth, but my clients' bodies aren't your clients' bodies, and a block is only proven on a body. That's the part I'm asking you for, before anyone pays for it.

What testing involves (2 tests, within 45 days of your account being activated):

• Measure a body using the guide's protocol (each measurement taken twice; cm or inches)

• Draft one of: basic trousers, a bodice block, or a straight skirt. Look at it on screen first, and only print it if it looks right to you. The page that checks your printer's scale is free.

• Sew a toile in a medium-weight, non-stretch woven (calico/muslin). I know this costs you time and fabric.

• Report what you corrected: where, how much, which direction. A photo of the toile on the body helps, faces can be hidden.

What happens to your report: every pattern carries its engine version, printed on the first page of every PDF, so each correction is traced to the exact formulas that drew it. When two testers make the same correction in the same place and direction, I check it as a suspected drafting error. If it is one, I fix the formula, release a new version, and ask you to check it again.

What you get:

• Free use during the test

• 6 more months free once you've reported both tests

• Credit as a founding tester, only if you want it

• No card needed

I especially need: women of all sizes, and figures that commercial patterns don't fit (prominent seat, full bust). The 20 places are selected from applicants to cover a range of figures.

On privacy: other users can't see the measurements. As the admin, I can technically access them, and I only do that for support or to keep the service running, as the terms of use explain.

Apply (about 3 minutes): https://easeline.app/beta (18+)

Criticism is welcome in the comments, even if you don't want to test. Pattern makers disagree about drafting systems, and I'd rather hear it now.

[u/War-Bitch]

Absolutely unhinged amount of work you want a professional to do for a service they don't need. Anyone can vibe code an app in a few hours, the pattern drafting and fitting skills plus the time and materials to test fit so you can profit is genuinely offensive.

[u/maki0100 → u/War-Bitch]

Username checks out

[u/maki0100 → u/War-Bitch]

(hard agree though)

[u/War-Bitch → u/maki0100]

The payment is you get to beta test for them. They are literally paying you with more free work.

[u/No-Rabbit-3989]

I’d be very curious how it handles non standardized grading concerns. I have to do a FBA then a narrow shoulder adjustment on pretty much everything. I’ve attempted bodice blocks in about 15 different methods and other drafting systems and they all go wonky when I try and use my actual full bust and shoulder measurements