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Get the ultimate reference for fitting and altering patterns
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THE COMPLETE PHOTOGUIDE TO PERFECT FITTING BOOK |
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- More than 650 large, full color photos
- Explains fitting test garments and transferring accurate adjustments to patterns
More details from our Sewing Advisors:
- The ultimate reference for fitting test garments and transferring accurate adjustments to patterns
- All you need to know to custom fit garment patterns
- Essential reference for anyone who sews clothes
- Professional techniques taught in easy-to-learn format
- Fitting and pattern alteration instructions that work for any "body"
- More than 650 large color photos
- Soft cover; 224 pages; author Sarah Veblen; copyright 2012
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Laying the foundation
- Developing a solid approach to fitting
- Pattern and fitting basics: How patterns are developed, finding your way around a pattern, garment silhouettes and ease, choosing a pattern size, tools for pattern work and fitting, overview of the fitting process, recognizing fitting issues
- Framework for fitting: The fitting axis, horizontal balance line
- Fundamentals of fitting muslins: Learning to look, fitting others and yourself, what to wear for fitting, preparing a test muslin for a fitting, clipping and marking during a fitting, pinning, assessing the fit
- Fundamentals of altering patterns: Patternmaking terms, making flat pattern adjustments, blending seams, lengthening and shortening patterns, placing and creating notches, controlling patterns with built in ease, moving a dart, truing a dart, scaling patterns up and down, working in an efficient order
- Developing your ability
- The process of fitting garments: skirt, bodice with darts, bodice with shoulder princess line, jacket with side panel and set in sleeves, tunic with armscye princess line, bodice with raglan sleeve
- Fitting solutions for body types and related pattern alterations: Bust, back, sides, shoulder line and neck, set-in sleeves, raglan sleeves, waist and hips
- Fitting Pants: Understanding body mas and pats volume, fine tuning the fit, the process of fitting pants, body type examples, typical pants pattern alterations
- Going to the next level
- Correcting pattern elements affected by fitting changes: Waistbands, facings, collars, linings
- Get creative: using style lines to create pleasing proportions, dart equivalents, collar variations, cuffs and sleeve hems
- About the author
- Index
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