![]() Your file has not been added because it exceeds the maximum file size of 10 MB. Sorry, you have exceeded the maximum file size. You can join EasePDF Premium membership to enjoy unlimited services. Your file has not been added because it exceeds the maximum file size of 5 MB. So that’s all the good, bad and ugly of a quicker way to assemble a PDF pattern at home.Sorry, you have exceeded the maximum file size. ![]() This could be a deal breaker for some people. Even if I can’t see through it on the table, I hold it up with a light behind, and I can see through it. But my paper is pretty thin and I can see through it. For example, this one runs along the margin and it is curvy, so it’s more tricky. For this one, it doesn’t take a genius to connect the end of one line on one page to the beginning of another line on another page. You see here? Some of the lines are covered. Keep doing it until the whole pattern is assembled! On the next one, you’ll have to glue/tape two sides. The idea is exactly the same: you line up the corners. You keep repeating the process for the same row. (Now that I am looking at the photo, I think I was half a millimeter off, but I’ll live.) You line up the very corners of the two pages like this: Now let’s put the other page next to the first one. You’ll see that the pages actually do overlap, so the glue would be under the margin of another page. If you put some glue beyond the line into the pattern, it’s not the end of the world. Precision is not necessary when you put on the glue. If you like to tape, it’s perfectly fine too. You probably can’t easily find it in your country (mine comes from Costa Rica), but I am sure you can find a good brand where you are. I found that this brand of glue stick, Pritt, is durable and the pages don’t come apart. I used to use scotch tape, but once I tried glue stick, there’s no turning back. By the time I finish planning and thinking, I would have trimmed many corners, so for all other pages, I just go ahead and trim all the corners.Īssembly time! I use a glue stick. Actually, you would not have to trim some corners too, but that would require me to plan and think about the sequence of my assembling. I know that for the very outer corner (on Itch to Stitch’s patterns, that would be one without the quarter circle), I will not have to align it with any other pages, so I did not cut it. You might notice that I didn’t cut all four corners on this page. The angle does not matter at all, so you can do this quickly. ![]() On this page, I trim the corners so that the cut touches the very corner of the rectangle. You should see all four lines of the rectangle on the page. ![]() Make sure the pages you print are correct. Please go over there and give the video a thumbs up! I knew some of you must know! Thank you Deva. If any of you know the original video, I’d love to link to it so I can give the lady proper credit. The bummer is that I no longer have the link. Thank you Rita!) The video is in German not that I understood a word of it, but I was able to just see what she was doing. (Rita is my friend and trusty proof-reader for almost all of my patterns. I learned this method of assembling print-at-home pattern from a German video that Rita referred me to. It might not be for you, but I’d like to share this with you anyway in case you find it helpful too. One disclaimer though-I am not saying this is the best way to assemble print-at-home patterns in fact, this method has some pitfalls. I think it has something to do with the printer feeder. But for my printer, I can’t do it because the pages don’t always print at the exactly same spot. Some people stack their printed pages together and use a rotatory cutter to cut all the edges/margins off. The best way is to have a large-format printer at my disposal, but since I don’t, I think this method works for me. Sometimes I have to print and assemble MANY times. I think this is a good thing because I catch a lot of errors and find areas of improvement just by doing it exactly as what my customers would do. The way you print and assemble a pattern at home is the way I print and assemble my patterns. I don’t have a large-format printer at home. Then if I have any changes, I revise, print and assemble the pattern again. When I draft a pattern and place it in the proper format, I print my pattern. Do you want to see how I assemble my PDF patterns at home? Unlike most people, I print and assemble my patterns many times.
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