An Update on our New Range!

Will the Lamour dress be included ?? I have looked everywhere and can't seem to locate the pattern for the Dorothy Lamour Dress ... Hope you can help me.

Love this!!! 💘

Thank you so much for extending your size range! I'm a longtime fan that was excluded from access due to needing a larger size than offered, and I'm absolutely thrilled at the change. I feel so welcome and SO READY to get started on the path to making my vintage wardrobe happen. Thank you!

Yay Gertie!! I can so appreciate. The hard work that goes into this type of expansion. It’s already such and amazing benefit to have the cup sizes. Anyone that’s had to grade their own pattern before for just their size understands.

For the updated sizes, is there a fee to pay in order access those sizes?

Inclusivity is where’s it at. Thank you, Gertie.

Awesome!

Would the extended size range ever expand to the published books, like Jiffy Dresses or the Ultimate Dress Book? I’m so excited to make all of your patterns now that I’m in the range!

GERTIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! YES!!! I'm so very excited about this change. I've often had to attempt to (poorly and inexpertly) grade things up to fit and I'm excited that now I can just pick which size fits best.

This is amazing!!!! I didn’t think it would affect what size I picked until I read the Blog post. After reading that I fall almost exactly into the new size 20!!! Because the bust/waist/hip measurements are slightly different in the overlapping sizes I may not have to grade between sizes at all!! I cannot wait to try it! August and our next pattern relaxant come fast enough!!!!! 🤩🥳😆

Thank you ,

Is this going to include the Presley shirt for men’s sizes? My husband is a big guy and I want to make him shirts too.

Thank you so much. Your efforts to increase the inclusivity of your patterns is truly meaningful. If you'll excuse the upcoming story, I feel the need to share what I mean by meaningful and how big of a deal it is to me. As someone just slightly past your size 20 and not very experienced with pattern drafting, I've always felt intimidated when starting your patterns. Almost like I was participating in something that wasn't really for me. My personal experience with being plus size in society is that I often feel invisible. In crowds, people tend to avoid eye contact or look through me once they see I'm bigger. I know it sounds vain to expect people to look at you however this reception from others is vastly different than when I was thin and fit where being simply acknowledged was the standard. Not being able to fit into the majority of clothing lines is an extension of that feeling of invisibility. Now, don't get me wrong, I understand that plus sized bodies present issues for designers and manufacturers that other bodies don't and logically it makes a lot of sense why traditional size ranges are what they are. Annoyingly, feelings and logic rarely have anything to do with one another. To me, this expansion of your size range makes me feel seen, welcomed, and valued. That's an amazing feeling and I truly appreciate you for it.

Truly amazing! Thank you!

Thank you so much to Gertie and her amazing team for working so hard on this update. I know how much effort it takes for me to do the math into sizing up a single pattern (I’m mathmatically a size 22H on the current scaling) so to imagine doing that for a whole range of blocks for all the different patterns!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩 Well done, and thank you for always working towards inclusivity - the ongoing journey for us all. 💜💕🎉

I’m not in the new size ranges (I’m a 16-18 so I’m on the top of the existing one), but I’m thrilled and excited that more people will be able to take advantage of these wonderful patterns! Thank you all so much.

I am not in the new size ranges as I am on the smaller end of the scale, I wanted to express how much I admire what you have done to build Charm Patterns and the Patreon group. You are truly and inspiration and I love your styles and your fabrics. i really enjoy being part of this group. Thanks very much Gertie!

WooHoo I’m so excited that these are coming and that the existing Charm and Patreon patterns will be drafted with the new block as well!

🥰🥰 I can't fit into the old sizes anymore, so I'm beyond excited for this. Thank you so much.

This is lovely. I am in the size overlap so I am very curious to see how the fit will be in the new range. From the chart I think it will be less grading, which is fantastic.

Yay!!! I joined up last year, because I wanted to be among the people that supported you in creating the expanded sizing. I’m so glad I did and I can see/sew the brand new sizing!!! I cannot freaking wait to sew your patterns in my own size!!!

I am so exited!! Thank you for doing this. I have been struggling with my graded patterns and I will be so happy when these start rolling out. Thanks for considering us.

Congratulations!!! You can be so proud....I like your patterns on charm and here so much!!

I am thrilled! While I personally don't need the extended sizes (I did however benefit from bust sizing), I just love how supporting you and your team on Patreon has made it possible for your business to be even more inclusive! This is why I chose to support you on patreon, keep at it!

I will admit that I am thankful for all the sewing knowledge I’ve gained, adjusting Gertie’s patterns to fit, but…I AM STOKED for the extended sizes.

CONGRATS!!!!!

I nearly screamed when I first read about this, my wifey is jealous of all the amazing things I've got cooking up and now I can throw something in for her too! ❤

Thank you Gertie and team!! I love that I am part of such an inclusive and diverse group of people.

Oh! I fit almost perfectly in the 20 (with an 18 waist)! Any chance there will be a small discount to bundle the two ranges together? I sew for my sister too and she is def in the smaller range (of course...can't be easy haha). I'm in that crossover range so I guess I'll need to try out both blocks haha

This makes me so happy!!

I am so proud for Charm patterns! Brava to you all. I still say poo on the way people acted while waiting, but you are ever the lady Gertie!

Thanks, Michelle, I overlooked it! I ordered my patterns from pdfplotting and I did leave them a note asking to only print specific layers. For some reason, they didn't.

Oh my goodness, I am so happy right now :) I want a whole wardrobe of Gertie

Good job on increasing diversity!! ❤️ Do you have any suggestions on how to make the patterns easier to transfer? On the areas, where the lines are close to each other, especially on curves, they all blend. I'm imagining adding sizes will make it more challenging For clarity - I'm in no way disapproving of the sizes expansion. I think it's great to empower and include more people in this journey. I'm genuinely looking for a tip

words cannot express how excited i am since i never fit into commercial patterns!! thank you so much. this is the reason why i finally subscribed to you

So proud to be a part of an inclusive community-this is 100% the right move and others should follow this example!!

You guuuuys. 👏👏👏