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Creating template from toile

Hello ladies, hoping those of you who sew for yourself and do fitting can help me. I have now got a toile that I am happy with that fits me (learnt a lot about adjustments). I now want to copy it onto firm paper/card to use as a template so I can compare it to tissue patterns when I sew for myself so the clothes will hopefully fit me. However, I never noted the alterations I made or marked them on the tissue pattern that I made the toile from and anyway the tissue is now in a right state! I therefore took the toile apart again, ironed it and have drawn around the skirt pieces to make a template (Sloper? Block?). But I suddenly realised that the bodice front is very 3D so can't be traced flat and then wondered if I should unpick all the darts on all my toile pieces and draw around them to make the template? But if I do this I don't see how I will be able to place it on top of a new tissue pattern to compare sizes/shapes as it will be too big with darts unpicked, won't it? Also, do I make the template with or without the seam allowances included? I have Fit for Real People and have scoured the internet until I'm sick of it, and I still can't make sense of what to do next. Help!!!!!!


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