Find your waist

To include waist shaping in a pattern, you first have to find out or decide where your own waist is.

Many people have a rather clear idea about where their natural waist is, or should be, or used to be. It can be more difficult to find if you have a very straight or a very rounded figure. One tip I’ve read about (but honestly haven’t had the occasion to try yet, so if you do, I’d be happy to hear about your experiences) is to tie an elastic around your belly. You then bend from side to side until the elastic stops moving about and ”settles” at the waist. Another indication is where the waistband of your skirts and trousers usually sits. This obviously doesn’t apply to your low rise jeans…

Remembering where it is – use a measure tape

Once you’ve found your waist, or decided where it should be, measure, or have someone else measure, from your shoulder down to the waist. There are some recommendations that you should take this measurement from the base of your neck down to your waist. For our purposes, I find it more practical to measure from your shoulder (mid-way between the neck and the shoulder tip). This also saves you the trouble of deciding where the base of your neck is.

If you like, you can take your measurement at the front and at the back of your body, and then calculate the average. Measuring only at the front works pretty well too.

Note this measurement carefully. You will use it for every single crocheted top you make for yourself over many years. Your body’s width can vary every few months, but your height changes only slowly over the years.

The length of different crocheted garments may be very different, but whether you are making a cropped halter top or a full length coat, it will always hang from your shoulders. That’s why the measurement from your shoulder down to your waist will always be relevant.

From body to pattern - vertically

Now, pull out the pattern you want to adapt. If you’re lucky, it includes schematics with measurements. Otherwise, you have to carefully read through your pattern to find the total length of your garment.

From this length, you subtract the shoulder-to-waist measurement. The result is the number of inches/centimetres you will work before you reach the narrowest part of the waist. The actual shaping will have to start earlier.

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