Accurate Size Patterns for Clothes?

[cdhall]

I notice that the patterns at http://www.megomuseum.com/custom/patterns.shtml do not print at the right size for me to lay onto my cloth and cut accurate pieces from.

Are there such patterns? I notice several have a ruler on them for scale and that if I click to enlarge the pictures I get a bigger, but not true scale, sized printout.

Am I supposed to scale up using the ruler which seems to be at 87% (the 10cm comes out as 8.7cm and that is where I get this from).

I'm sure I'm going to convince myself this weekend that I just need to buy costumes from members but I'm trying to make 4 pair of pants and I can't recall how I did it in '93ish. And I recall it took me about 4 trys...

If anyone can email me a pattern for tight pants that I can print out and cut from, that would be great. A regular shirt would be great too. That is all I'm working on this weekend.

This pants graphic for example only prints down to 1/2 of the Tight Pants just like it does on James Brady's site where I first printed it back in 2004 it looks like....
http://www.megomuseum.com/custom/patterns/pants.jpg

At least I now know I didn't print it wrong...


Thanks in advance.

[saildog]

There's probably a very easy way to get it right, but I can think of a workable solution for you. Those are JPEG images so I would copy them into any program like Microsoft Word, Publisher, Photoshop, whatever ya' have. Then, scale the image until one inch on the ruler provided in the image for scale equals one inch on the print. I just tried it and it came out with very little work.