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Thursday 20 June 2013

.Ottobre Design Age/Size Guide.


I made this print-out a few months ago when I was finding it difficult to select the size of Ottobre Design patterns. All of the pattern sizing in the Ottobre magazines is given by height measurement. Which is great if you have your kids avaliable to measure against, but most of my sewing takes place when they are at school or in bed so I'm usually stuck because I forget to measure them in advance! Then when I was doing lots of baby sewing, I was really confused by the sizing given and didn't know what was going to fit, but it turns out this size guide has worked really well.  

So, if you're stuck with sizing, hopefully this will help. Click on the image below to get the A4 image to print out and stick it with your Otto magazines for quick and easy reference!



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6 comments:

  1. Kristie20 June 2013 at 12:57

    Thanks! Maybe now I'll actually tackle one of their patterns.

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  2. Lauren20 June 2013 at 14:18

    This is wonderful - thanks! :)

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  3. Renee20 June 2013 at 20:49

    Thank you for posting this - I'm waiting for my first Ottobre magazine to arrive. Trying to measure my uncooperative 22 month old will be interesting so it's great to have this guide as a back up!

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  4. Anonymous21 June 2013 at 06:28

    A great idea except my son is 2 and a quarter but the height of a 4 year old - Ottobre didn't think of that one!

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  5. Angela27 June 2013 at 00:58

    It's always such a headache sewing without correct measurments!
    There's a very useful sizing comparison chart at this site http://lespetitsanglais.blogspot.ie/2011/02/useful-sizing-chart-for-children.html which shows the difference between US and European sizes for children and the chart makes a comparison across all measurements.
    I've used Burda and Ottobre a lot, but always thought size 50 was for premature babies!

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  6. OTTOBRE staff6 July 2013 at 20:30

    Hi
    I'd like to correct a bit your sizes versus ages. I'd rather recommed these more average ages, which are more accurant at least here in Europe.

    Size Age
    50 newborn
    56 1-2 months
    62 3-5 months
    68 6-8 months
    74 9-11 months
    80 12-15 months
    86 18 months
    92 2 years
    98 3 years
    104 4 years
    110 5 years
    116 6 years
    122 7 years
    128 8 years
    134 9 years
    140 9-10 years
    146 10 years
    152 11 years
    158 12 years

    All kids are individuals, so their height does not always macht with average ages. We recommend to measure kids height and choose the size which is closest. Then you should measure kids circumferences and compare those to size charts. If she/he is slim, you can choose smaller size and draw hemlines, sleeves and pants bottom edges along the lines which is right by height.

    You find all the size charts in inches and in centimetres here:
    http://www.ottobredesign.com/en/print/pdf/size_charts2004.pdf

    Best wishes from Finland.

    Tuula from Ottobre design

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