Reply To: copying a dart in a shirt

[the_professors_assistantKeymaster]

The foldline is the center of your dart. So the distance from the foldline to the stitchline is the measurement you use to make marks on both sides of the foldline mark. You really don’t have to make the marks quite as long as mine. If you want to make a dot, right on the side seam line of your shirt, that’s perfectly ok and will help make it more accurate. Then connect each dot with the end of the dart. The dart should be equal on each side of the fold line. If you’re still having trouble, here’s another way you can do it. Create half of the dart, with dart lines and everything, it’s maybe just the top half. You’ll still fold on the foldline just like I do when folding my dart. Take your tracing wheel and run it along your outside dart line. Then unfold it and you should get a mirror image of the dart. Hope this helps.